Lay My Hat

we started 20 years ago aged 40. The business changed 3 years ago due to OTA's wanting their cut. There is a lot of competition in our area and getting bookings is a hard slog. It would be better financially if we lived near or on site and could do cleaning maintamance ourselves. Having said that we...

I have been following Alan's tutorials. I made a wordpress site in 2010 but being dot com it had limitations.
I have been impressed with the help from the tutorials but it has taken me nearly 2 weeks! So far the look is impressive and if it brings in the bookings, then it's time well spent.

Thanks

My site is www.woodsidecottage.wordpress.com It is also linked to 2 others but as we are selling one cottage it is only Woodside that needs to have the facility of calendar with prices that you can take bookings from.

Many thanks JWK.
I would like to keep my wordpress.com site but have a booking and payment page

First time in 17 years we have an empty week in June! and all the properties nearby are quiet too.

Thanks both,for your advice. I have decided to start a new wordpress site using Alan's advice

Hi Have been using the free, wordpress .com for 7 years but need to be able to put in plugins and that is not an option with wordpress.com, so need to move my site to wordpress.org. Has anyone had a similar experience? did you do it yourselves? or use someone to do it? Who did you use to host your n...

thanks for all your advice. Have to go away and think about what to do.

We have a wordpress site and now would like to take payments by credit cards. What works best? Strip? wave? transfer wise? world pay? So confused!!!
Many thanks for any advice as I feel so out of my depth.

The biggest mistake we made was having a saniflo!
Don't ever switch off. Put up labels and even when you say "only the toilet paper provided by us" is to be used they still use wet wipes!!
We eventally had ours taken out
Best of luck.

I am fed up with Air B and B contacting me to tell me I have just missed out on a booking, as the booking has gone to someone whose prices are lower than mine by £30, £15 , £20 per night etc. So in January I lowered my prices!!!! and guess what I still didn't get a booking. Air B and B are very disa...

I was told by a big agency that the public want total flexibility and the cottages that can do that will do well!. Not always possible, we do have a life you know as does my caretaker!

For many years I was with HL on subscription and for many years they were excellent but the last 2 years were dreadful! So I switched to commission thinking it might be better as it is in their interest to get me bookings in order to make their money. Well to date I have had 2 bookings, so they are ...

Hi in one of our cottages as we have gas we use hive to control heating remotely. excellent system
In the other property we only have electricity and have just started using lightwave. So far so good