Lay My Hat

Musetta, whether by becoming a partner site I can influence the customer care and general useability of the system I am not sure but I'm damned sure I will try and expect it to change for the better. I have had a bad experience with their CS in the past though I have to say it has improved considera...

Chianti, you have the good fortune to be based, I assume, in Italy, so quite understand your concern about my imbibing habits! But for the time being I am in India and after the joys of Puglia must make the best of a bad job. The Indian wine industry is nascent, in other words the product generally ...

If I might make a few points having asked the original question. I have been with villarenters for 3 years now and until this year found them to be about on a par with holidayrentals and holdaylettings in terms of enquiries but far better for bookings, still not very exciting. This year they have go...

I know somedon'tlike villarenters too m uch, but they have been really quite successful for me this year and also have improved their customer service considerably, at least in my experience What is it precisely that you particularly dislike about their sytem? They pay out more quickly now, don't ho...

Hi everyone. Have I asked an "out of bounds" question? I'm feeling thoroughly unloved and ignored! Hasn't happened to me before! Isn't this of interest to anyone, or have I missed the point?

Has anyone had any dealings with villarenters over their recent offer of setting up partner websites? I have looked into it fairly carefully and am struggling to find any real downside bar a really very small monthly fee. It seems to me a good way to increase one's involvement in a region and drive ...

Just to keep up to date, I have for the first time in 3 years had some success with villarenters/rentalsystems, though admittedly through people hitting my site then booking direct through their calender embedded on my site. This is good as it only costs 2% commission. 3 bookings for '08 already. Th...

Grazie mille Ros, kind comments. However people still have to find it before they can judge! Maybe the link through holidaypad has worked wonders! Thanks Garri if so! These things can be so irritatingly difficult to quantify.

Have only just come in on this. Starting from 2005, most of our bookings for 05, 06 and 07 came in between October and March, with a few late bookings. This year incredibly we are almost sold out from mid May to mid September already. I'm not sure what to put this down to. None are re bookings and o...

Just for everyone's interest asked for a booking payment to be made today and it appears to have gone through. Let's hope so!

The idea of scanning pages from the guest book has been brilliant for us, I'd say it really works. Many people have said following reading the reviews they were really convinced and of course it's less likely the reviews are made up by the owner...heaven forbid! Mind you it helps if they say nice th...

Eureka!! Just after my last post I received an "automated email..do not reply to this email" from villarenters saying they had changed the dates for me. Indeed they have, at last and I am grateful!! Thank you villarentersguy if you were instrumental in pushing things along. However I still...

Me too. Frankly there has still been no resolution to my problem and I have had no further reply from villarentersguy since yesterday regardless of my having PM'd him again this morning. I wait in hope, however not for much longer!! At the moment I think the whole process or lack of it stinks!

He's apparently still looking into it for me and absolutely nothing has happened! How difficult can this be?

Alan, going back some time to near the beginning of this thread, I thought I would try your option of not emptying the pool and just giving it a darned good clean, chloro blast, etc and we have a perfect clean pool. Thanks, you saved me loads of hassle and time waiting for the thing to fill.