Getting feedbacks from guests
Getting feedbacks from guests
Ciao!
I am sure there are tons of threads abot this matter, but I can't find them.
How do you obtain feedbacks from guests?
I used to email guests, after they were home again, but... I don't know... What do you do? And what do you write?
Do you ask for general impressions on the property or to point out the ups and downs for the property.
Sorry, I am confused.
Have a nice day
Tiziana
I am sure there are tons of threads abot this matter, but I can't find them.
How do you obtain feedbacks from guests?
I used to email guests, after they were home again, but... I don't know... What do you do? And what do you write?
Do you ask for general impressions on the property or to point out the ups and downs for the property.
Sorry, I am confused.
Have a nice day
Tiziana
Tiziana, I always e-mail them when they get back and say that I hope they had a nice time. In my first year of renting I also used to add that I'd value any candid feedback, but now I've had plenty of feedback so I just ask about their holiday and see what they say. Mostly just that one question triggers a flurry of comments.
Personally I wouldn't be too specific in what you ask them. You don't want them to feel they've got to fill out a questionnaire!
TC
Personally I wouldn't be too specific in what you ask them. You don't want them to feel they've got to fill out a questionnaire!
TC
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Good advice but don't forget to provide a guestbook at the property too Tiziana. You get some lovely contributions that way - little sketches from visiting kids occasionally, and we've had a couple of weeny poems too!
Guests just love reading each others' comments and it's also a useful source of information since they often talk about specific things they've enjoyed. It's one of the first things I do when I'm on a self-catering holiday!
Guests just love reading each others' comments and it's also a useful source of information since they often talk about specific things they've enjoyed. It's one of the first things I do when I'm on a self-catering holiday!
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That's a good point, GG. I don't do that myself, but it's certainly something I've given some thought to.
TC
TC
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We have a guest book that guests write detailed feedback in. It seems to follow on from previous guests had done and some write pages and pages almost like a journal of what they have done and enjoyed as well as comments about us and the villa.
Last year we hardly got any electronic feedback at all and I had wondered if there was a bad reason for this as we changed our villa management from family due to ill health to someone else. However when I visited there was lots of great feedback in the book. I am not sure how to transfer this to the website should I scan and have 2 pages one for online reviews and one for photocopied pages.
I do ask for electronic feedback as well but am never pushy in light of the detailed feedback in the guest book and they would probably think I am a bit cheeky if I expect both.
The guest book in all honesty if not as good for marketing purposes is much more useful to the guests when they actually arrive as they can see a totally independent view of where previous guests like to eat and go etc.
Last year we hardly got any electronic feedback at all and I had wondered if there was a bad reason for this as we changed our villa management from family due to ill health to someone else. However when I visited there was lots of great feedback in the book. I am not sure how to transfer this to the website should I scan and have 2 pages one for online reviews and one for photocopied pages.
I do ask for electronic feedback as well but am never pushy in light of the detailed feedback in the guest book and they would probably think I am a bit cheeky if I expect both.
The guest book in all honesty if not as good for marketing purposes is much more useful to the guests when they actually arrive as they can see a totally independent view of where previous guests like to eat and go etc.
Always Learning
Here is one pretty cool idea.Hanorah wrote:...I am not sure how to transfer this to the website ...
I think guest reviews are a major contributor to a website's success and there are many ways to accomplish it, but they must appear "genuine".
** Richard
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They say we learn from our mistakes. That makes me a genius !
It looks good but rather complicated.........?
The idea of a page where the guest, on returning home, puts his feedback does not work for me as I find many guests on leaving here will not take (or be able to find) the time to dedicate to this.
(April 2007 departing guests promised to email me the pics they'd taken; they've emailed me twice since promising that when they have a moment.......I'm still waiting )
To give a more genuine feel to the comments, as I said I make it clear that their comments will be edited & posted (shortened if neccessary without deleting negative comments - only one so far on the lack of long drink glasses - which has been remedied!) and guests are asked to sign/date/state country of residence which I also post.
The idea of a page where the guest, on returning home, puts his feedback does not work for me as I find many guests on leaving here will not take (or be able to find) the time to dedicate to this.
(April 2007 departing guests promised to email me the pics they'd taken; they've emailed me twice since promising that when they have a moment.......I'm still waiting )
To give a more genuine feel to the comments, as I said I make it clear that their comments will be edited & posted (shortened if neccessary without deleting negative comments - only one so far on the lack of long drink glasses - which has been remedied!) and guests are asked to sign/date/state country of residence which I also post.
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I think that LV's guest book looks really great, and triggered me to look for WordPress compatible versions. There seem to be a least a dozen out there, and searching for WordPress flipbooks or flipping books or page flip produces a few.
Here's one from a French designer
and a whole load here plus a Filofax version.
MG
Here's one from a French designer
and a whole load here plus a Filofax version.
MG
That's a good idea, I may try it....thanks Fil.Fil wrote:I leave a Guestbook and a Improvements Recomendations Book ate the apartment which has proved very useful.
People don't usually like or bother to write down on the GB if they think the lights are dim, the window is loose or wathever but happily do it in the recomendations book.