Lay My Hat

In early October 23 I did a month’s trial of PriceLabs, had some excellent results with it within that month, and have now adopted it fully and been using it for a total of nearly 3 months now. However, while trying to set up my one and only listing site, Independent Cottages, for the new year, I’ve...

I posted this nearly a year ago now. Well, my 22/23 autumn and winter bookings improved, so much so that I sold 27 out of the 28 nights in February 23 and thought we were turning a corner. But then, another collapse and this one is far more worrying because it's been in the 'season' months of May, J...

I think I've got to the bottom of this. Although Booking.com have told me that Dorset-uk.info are not a direct affilliate of theirs, I figure they're an indirect afffiliate of Bookings. There are others sites who do the same thing, one of which is LateRooms dot Com https://www.laterooms.com/ , part...

Holiday Cottages is a small cog in a large machine. https://www.travelchapter.com/brands That doesn’t detract from the fact that, from the searches I did relative to my property in my area, Holiday Cottages wiped the floor with the competition. In other words, anyone doing searches similar to the o...

County wise, I'm next door to you (Dorset). I recently did over 30 searches on Google using what I believe to be (won't tell you how) popular search terms for my type of property and it's location. Analysing the hits from the first page of Google search results only, I had hits on a total of 103 bus...

You've probably sussed it by now, but if not try +44 (0)208 612 8159

SusanMay wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 9:50 am Have you tried the Dorset-uk.info "contact us" page to ask them?

Yes - I messaged them about 2 weeks ago - no reply. The site looks dodgy to everyone I speak to.

This will only be of interest to owners with properties in Dorset, UK, but I recently came across Dorset-uk.info and was surprised to find my property listed by them, even though I don't have an agreement in place with them because they're not an OTA that I have 'opted in' to via my property/channel...

At last I got round to opening an account with Trip Advisor Holiday Rentals. So I opened an account but didn't activate it as I needed it connected to Eviivo, my property/channel manager. So I contacted Eviivo, gave them my Trip Advisor account number, and said 'what happens now?' They told me to ge...

A further thought on this matter - although I know I didn't directly change my Booking.com settings to accepting cash only, I have a feeling it may have been changed as a result of me going onto Booking's Smart-Flex Reservations programme (downline of the Opputunities tab) a few months back. Because...

Got to the bottom of this problem. The reason the 'Card type' drop down menu didnl' work for my listing is that my Boooking.com extranet 'Other Policies' settings had been chencged to signify that I didn't accept credit cards and only accepted cash! When or why this change happened I don't know, but...

I donlt think hosts can make a dummy reservation on Booking.com. So I tried making a real reservation of my own property knowing I could cancel for free if it was successful. But I came up again the same problem mand couldn't actually book. So there's definitely a problem. I've messaged Booking.com ...

Twice in the past 10 days I’ve had potential guests advise me that they have been unable to book my holiday let on Booking.com due to Booking’s ‘Card type’ drop down menu not working, so they can’t get beyond this point and can’t enter any credit card information. The first time this happened I rang...

One thing we have done that will to an extent partially solve the problem of winter energy costs, is to close our holiday let down for the winter months of November, December, January and February. Assuming you and your property are in the UK, don't forget that your property must be available for l...

It's been 15 years since HG Mould Spray was reviewed but I'm pleased to report that it's still available and our cleaner says (and I quote) "it's bloody marvelous tbh". After two applications virtually all the black mould on the mastic has gone (just two small black dots left) and she's co...