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- Sat Feb 06, 2021 6:16 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Tripadvisor/holidaylettings listing fee
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1842
Thank you for your replies. I do feel terrible when people are Charged such a hefty premium. I try really hard to give the name of our property in the hope that they might search it and find us independently without breaching the rules. I’ve just had a summer booking from them but now it seems they ...
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Tripadvisor/holidaylettings listing fee
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1842
Tripadvisor/holidaylettings listing fee
We moved from a paid for listing to a commission based one at the start of the year but the prices they are charging are extortionate. Our summer price is £2500 and they are adding another £350 on top which means it’s well beyond the reasonable pricing for the location and size of property. Because ...
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:39 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: re: Homeaway various
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3764
I’m afraid I don’t have much helpful news as it just gets confusing for your renters from here on in. You can dondirect bank transfer for the remainder of the payment and in theory set your terms but the renter doesn’t often know that. So they are forced to pay their fee to owners direct (which by t...
- Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:36 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Owners Direct/ HomeAway
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2660
- Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:20 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: The good old days of weekly bookings
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1644
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 1:48 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: HomeAway Traveller Service Fee
- Replies: 63
- Views: 8923
Thank you for higlighting all of this - I've been watching this play out for a while. We moved to online bookings for OD about three months ago just to test the theory that `everyone wants to book online now` - guess what, one booking has come that way whilst we have had copious people contact us an...
- Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:25 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Holiday Lettings 'free on line booking throughout 2016'
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4053
it is true, I like the personal touch - ours is not a business as such but a means to enable us to have a lovely house that we can use on occasions and therefore like everyone getting to know the renters first, direct not through a big company is important. I've just checked out our competitors in o...
- Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:24 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Holiday Lettings 'free on line booking throughout 2016'
- Replies: 64
- Views: 4053
Interesting debate - echoing the one my husband and I had last night! We don't take online bookings because although our house sleeps 10 it is maximum 8 adults and 2 younger children - a fact that, despite it being prominent in our listing is often overlooked by potential bookers when they contact u...
- Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:14 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Confused of Madrid..TA mobile bookings..
- Replies: 3
- Views: 638
funnily enough I was just going through all my accounts and having the same trouble. I can't actually work out where my enquiries come from anymore - they seem to be one dashboard for FK and HL. My response rate has dropped to 80% because I'm getting so confused and think I've replied to someone who...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 6:57 am
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: strange results
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4241
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:59 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Compensation for missing Dishwasher
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6891
Cascat the majority of our renters are driving and booking for weekends so don't have the usual full luggage. I know flowers have been well received and taken home as they're not dumped in the bin when the cleaning is done. But I appreciate that different rental set ups mean it isn't going to be app...
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:35 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Compensation for missing Dishwasher
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6891
You've probably decided by now but in the past we've sent a bouquet of flowers to the holiday house with a sorry card in it when something like that has happened. It is just a different gesture not too expensive but different from the normal compensation. On the other hand when the heating failed ov...
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:44 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Some reflections as a rental guest and rental owner
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5725
We are not on site so have never had the dilemma. There should be some polite way to signal as guests whether you want to chat or just be left alone! I wondered whether the owners saying something along the lines of we are usually available between x and y time if you have any questions which signal...
- Mon Aug 03, 2015 9:30 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Some reflections as a rental guest and rental owner
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5725
Some reflections as a rental guest and rental owner
We (extended family totalling 18 for one week and just four of us a second) have just spent the last two weeks in two separate holiday homes as renters. As a rental owner myself I'm always curious to see how others do it. These are my reflections from being the renter 1. Owners living on site have i...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 6:53 pm
- Forum: UK & Ireland
- Topic: Are you fully booked for August?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6737