Lay My Hat

It depends if you live local to your let and how hands on you want to be. We used Cottages.com for our first season but we’re disappointed at number of bookings and the support they gave. I ended up using Airbnb to fill the weeks not booked by cottages (and ended up getting more bookings from Airbnb...

I’ve come across a website called Simply Owners. Any views on them? Notice they don’t charge any commission but an upfront yearly fee. Thanks

Hi, I've had a new year booking request (via Airbnb) and their profile says they live in London. Based on today's news I've denied the booking as London is now Tier 3 (so no overnights). They've come back and said they don't live in London but Devon. Spoken to Airbnb support who have said they can't...

Thanks for all your input. We've decided to go it alone next season (using Airbnb, local tourist board (who don't charge Commission) and maybe HL and see how it goes.

Cottages didn't really seem bothered we wanted to terminate, as I thought they have too many properties.

Hi I wonder if any members can provide some guidance. This is our first season and we decided to go with Cottages.com - to date we've been disappointed with them as they take ages to respond and bookings have been disappointing from them too (our bookings generated from them are only half of what th...