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we have an old cottage which has been refurbished so does not have penetrating or rising damp. However it inevitably suffers from condensation due to: 1. People breathing (seems they insist on doing it!) 2. cooking 3. showers/baths 4. Drying clothes Cant do much about 1. :lol: We have an extractor (...

for us ... majority have come via HL... with OD some way behind. But have renewed OD as it seems to be justified.

We have joined Premier Cottages (much more costly) and will see how each performs over a full year ... next year

Premier Cottages in the UK deal only with upper 4 + 5* properties. Their requirements are that we provide "All inclusive": All Owners must have included free of charge Beds made up for arrival All bath and hand towels Tea towels All heating Logs/Coal if wood-burner or open fire #1 if adver...

:D rentalagent i suppose the one thing which may be missing is whether guest expectations have changed? How many guests want to do instant bookings and make payment, get confirmation etc. In truth i have no idea! Possibly those people that are relying on bookings for one & two week holidays will...

Has anyone had any experience with http://www.freetobook.com/cottage/ looks like an interesting way to add online bookings. Free to use & free to join....no contract..... but they take commission of 10%on extra bookings made on websites other than our own.... such ast laterooms.com & booking...

Autumn/early winter seems surprisingly good to me....

approx 9 weeks booked to year end inc Xmas

approx 6 weeks free to year end inc NY

but everyone seems to want a deal!

apologies for the initial mixup with multiple posts! Hopefully poll now working correctly..

Following on from Walters question for Spain... how about for the UK? I have added a poll if that's easier. But please add comments too! Mine are mostly Holiday Lettings by a wide margin.... Owners Direct provide a few. We joined Premier Cottages more recently - early indications are good but of cou...

Walter

you might update the title to say Spain? I think its a useful question .. and will kick of a similar question for UK!

One service we offer is to take in an online shop for guests (if it comes before they arrive). They book a delivery for arrival day from someone like Waitrose, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury... all deliver to our village ….. we ask them to let us know the timeslot booked. Its easy for us because we live nex...

this is the led driver i bought for the MR16 .... seems fine and good value:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251106738339? ... 983wt_1271

I suspect most of us have similar problems with ever increasing electricity costs. Many of our guests seem to leave lights on for much more than they would if they were paying the bills! I have just replaced all my halogen bulbs with LED in both holiday home and own house. LED bulbs have dropped in ...

Christmas was booked with us in February!!!!

But so far New Year is free....

Good luck!

Hi Paddy will be interesting to see what else people are doing. I am sure there are better ways than the way i did it but it seemed a good start. It took me a few hours to do it as i was new to Dudamobile. But easy to keep changing as i think of improvements. Its probably too wordy but i think peopl...

Hi Paddy If you now go to my website from a mobile it will look different …. Hopefully more conveniently organised for those users… which I suspect will be an ever increasing number? USING A MOBILE/SMARTPHONE http://www.dorset-somerset-holiday-cottages.co.uk/ … will automatically bounce to the new v...