Lay My Hat

Sanchisimo wrote: "he checked out like its been a month ago,"

Doesn't look very professional to me!

It's not just the owners who have bad experiences with Sykes.

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We had a large wicker laundry basket vanish into thin air.

Our cottage was in a flood risk area and did actually flood, badly, in 2007. This was Bourton-on-the-Water. We were insured with the Halifax and had no problems claiming for the flood and they continued to insure us thereafter so maybe worth approaching them.

yeah, we've had the same thing with the oven after powercuts - in the end I made a copy of the 'reset clock' directions from the instruction manual and taped them to the inside of a cupboard near the cooker so that when it happened I could tell the guests to refer to the reset instructions.. much e...

We've been using them for years following a tip-off on here, we call them magic cloths! They're great for everything, especially glass and anything that benefits from a smear free finish such as chrome and marble. They wash well and do last for years and years and years.

SoHo area is brilliant for shopping.

I've been to New York twice in the last couple of years, the first time we stayed in this apartment: https://www.vrbo.com/158702# It wasn't luxurious but was absolutely fine, clean and comfortable and really well located 1 block from Central Park and steps away from shops and supermarkets. You don't...

Gwion wrote:(Some people also leave my wife's welsh drop scones. Are they mad!)

Gwion, we've booked one of your properties for a week in May and would be delighted with some of your wife's Welsh scones I think we'd make very short work of them indeed

I thought about that, then wondered if anyone had done just this and found a naughty guest procured a phone from somewhere and connected it... It never happened to us in 10 years. We had some concerns about one American guest who asked us to provide him with a phone so he could call home (we declin...

johnandtahra wrote:Quick question: how do you prevent guests using the phone part of your phone/b/b package? I'm about to go with Plusnet myself, but I have been told (by Plusnet) that there is nothing available to block outgoing calls.

Anyone?

We just didn't leave a phone in the house.

Lion poo! Puts the fear of God into cats. We used to keep free-flying doves and used this stuff to great effect.

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Conversely if you are investing your own capital for the whole purchase, then the percentage return on capital will probably be considerably worse than other investments which are a lot less work. Dave This is spot on. For us being holiday cottage owners has been more about having somewhere to go t...

tim441 wrote:Christmas was booked with us in February!!!!

But so far New Year is free....

Good luck!

Same here. Christmas has always been easier to sell than New Year for us.

If the code has been changed the little lever for opening the safe won't depress, this is something to check. If it can be pulled down but the safe still won't open it just means the hatch is stuck. Ours jammed once but there was nothing wrong with the code, we prised it open with a screwdriver whil...