With us it has to be back-to-back changeover in high season (the summer months) with a firmly fixed changeover day. Also we need to let in units of one week. It is not ideal for us nor for a number of our guests, who might prefer (say) a ten days holiday starting and ending on different days of the week. However, by allowing this flexibility, we would simply lose too much income to gaps and holes at this highly priced time of year.Casscat wrote:I've had the same comments tavi. I have no fixed changeover day as I appreciate that people will be looking for the best flight deals depending upon their local airport. I don't mind having the odd unbooked day or two as it does take some of the pressure off my property managers who otherwise are coping with stressful back-to-back same day changeovers throughout the summer. I wouldn't take a booking which left me with a hole of four to six days though.
We do lose some guests on account of this, who would otherwise have been keen to book, but villa demand is still sufficiently high to enable us to fill all the summer weeks without gaps. If the demand were not there, I think we would be more accommodating in this respect, because we are fully flexible in early and late season.