Search found 117 matches
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:59 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Success with subscription on homeaway sites?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1752
- Wed May 06, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: UK & Ireland
- Topic: Scotland Coronavirus Grant Applications
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4958
Fife Council may have problems paying out
Contrary to my earlier post about a three week turnaround time for the application I haven't actually received payment. Application submitted 7th April. Confirmation that the cottage qualified was e-mailed to me on 23rd April. I thought that the application checking would be the time consuming bit a...
- Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:15 am
- Forum: UK & Ireland
- Topic: Scotland Coronavirus Grant Applications
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4958
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:38 am
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: FudgePilot
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1957
FudgePilot
I have just used a Web tool to analyse the latest 1000 5* and 1000 1* Sykes reviews on Trustpilot. I'm not boasting perfect arithmetic here but the general picture appears to be this. 1) The latest 1000 5* reviews have all been generated in the last three days. 2) Only 360 1* reviews have been publi...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:12 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Official. Sykes is a Great Company
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2576
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 5:27 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Official. Sykes is a Great Company
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2576
Official. Sykes is a Great Company
There is something very odd going on at Trustpilot where the volume of very recent 5 star reviews for cuddly old Mrs Sykes is frankly amazing. Are ordinary folks doling out five star gratitude because they can now only shift their breaks forward and pay even more money to do so or they must be enthu...
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 6:21 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Homeaway
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5914
Not Great in Fife, Scotland.
Square root of bugger all. Used them for three years from 2014 on subscription. 3 bookings certainly not more. Their location map wasn't accurate (20 miles out) and they couldn't give a rubber duck. I did get the impression that they had a better reach in S England and mainland Europe. Maybe that's ...
Forget anything more than "min 2 nights"
Apart from the odd outlier booking, ABB are only good at one and two nights only (at least for us). The longer gigs come from our own website. So they are a useful channel to market albeit with these caveats.
- Sat Dec 14, 2019 9:57 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Energy Performance Certificates - Anonymous Poll
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2011
Energy Performance Certificates - Anonymous Poll
What's the uptake on this? Please complete the poll. I know this was raised a year or so ago but was wondering if many people had "invested" in one of these or were getting harassed by "the authorities". This came from VisitScotland yesterday. http://links.visitscotland.mkt4809.c...
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:28 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Is this channel to market completely sewn up by big players?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7736
Thanks Zebedee and thanks to all who posted. As a footnote, I was completing my year end today and was pleased to see ABB are doing the majority of of one and two nights and at an average of £122/night compared to £85 to £95/night for three to seven night stays that come through our own website. To ...
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 3:56 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: What would You like
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5142
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 11:38 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Is this channel to market completely sewn up by big players?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7736
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:15 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Is this channel to market completely sewn up by big players?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7736
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:37 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Christmas tips for decorations etc
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7847
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:29 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Is this channel to market completely sewn up by big players?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7736
Maybe a final observation
Looking again at the past few years ABB is worth between 10 and 15% (we do not use any other OTA's). In that time I have found that in our area anyway, 1) price trumps everything else (including off street parking, wet rooms, large telly, fast broadband, Netflix, expensive riser/recliner etc) 2) Mos...