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- Sun Jun 14, 2020 3:07 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Managing the changeover - sharing our thoughts here
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15208
Interesting thread on Mumsnet today about what guests are expecting in a holiday cottage post-Covid. Seems many are just expecting normal standards of cleanliness, and don't fully appreciate what problems owners might be facing this year (or next!) https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3938324-What-wil...
Several of our Spanish friends have told us that the Spanish are desperately looking for rural houses to rent at the moment. It may be that rural holiday lets become far more popular than hotels while the Covid situation continues. Given the history of the hotel industry lobby pressuring the governm...
- Tue May 12, 2020 4:19 pm
- Forum: Spain
- Topic: Bookings not being cancelled -yet!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3933
From trawling internet forums I get the impression that most people are resigned to not having a summer holiday this year, but are waiting for airlines/villa owners to cancel first as they believe that they will get full refunds in those circumstances. We have some final balances due in June (for Au...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:18 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Coronavirus - cancellaitons - and how to respond to guests
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9146
That's reassuring to know. Unlike AirBnB's stance which was just to roll over. These platforms need to remember - 'don't bite the hand that feeds you' (i.e. us property owners, because without us they have nothing). Actually all that has changed since HA announced their new policy on 18th March. Yo...
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:50 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Coronavirus - is it affecting your bookings?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 28362
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:47 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Coronavirus - is it affecting your bookings?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 28362
This appeared on the HA 'Discovery Hub' todayhttps://www.homeaway.com/discoveryhub/tips-and-resources/improve-performance/covid-19-updates : March 18, 2020 Today, we are introducing our COVID-19 Emergency Policy, a series of measures designed to help navigate these extraordinary circumstances. If a ...
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 5:04 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Coronavirus - cancellaitons - and how to respond to guests
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9146
Unfortunately, most of our bookings are from HA, so I'm assuming that guests will cancel before the 2-month cut off time for cancellation (we have a strict cancellation policy). For those who don't, I have no intention of giving refunds. We have, as usual, incurred considerable costs over the winter...
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:10 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Coronavirus - is it affecting your bookings?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 28362
Without a doubt, people who rely on guests flying from overseas are going to be badly hit this year. Looking at internet forums, people are more worried about catching the virus at airports and on planes than whether the actual destination has been affected. Also people are concerned about being qua...
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 3:58 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Spain-Holiday.com has new owners
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4049
Yes, we're on Airbnb (which is useless for us) and Homeaway, which provides most of our bookings, but things have fallen off a cliff in the last few weeks.volcano wrote: Thanks Gazpacho for your explanation - doesn't look good for this year. Are you also on other lists and do you have there the same experience?
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 12:32 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Spain-Holiday.com has new owners
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4049
I have the most expensive listing but last year it did not produce results and I probably won't renew it. The uncertainty over Brexit certainly didn't help either for 2019 and 2020 bookings. As for this year, because of the coronavirus I'm expecting some cancellations and no new bookings, at least f...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:35 pm
- Forum: Spain
- Topic: Booking.com ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2594
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:11 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: 2019 Bookings up or down on 2018
- Replies: 51
- Views: 16482
The usual post-Christmas surge definitely hasn't materialised yet. We are in Spain. Since we usually get large family groups I think that the current instability means that some family members may be uncertain about booking, so the group decision gets postponed (or they decide to holiday in the UK i...
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:10 pm
- Forum: Spain
- Topic: Registering for a Tourist Licence
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2855
- Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:35 am
- Forum: Spain
- Topic: How much electricity do I need to contract for air-con?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2043
- Fri Jan 04, 2019 4:36 pm
- Forum: Spain
- Topic: How much electricity do I need to contract for air-con?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2043