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Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!

I too would reject this one. Tempting I know when it is a 3 week booking to accept (and yes they are as rare as hens teeth). I had a bad experience with a family who brought 2 dogs, they ignored all the polite requests about pet behaviour, left the dogs outside when they went out, let them scratch t...

Hi Nemo, I think I would accept the break. If you are trialing the strategy of keeping one peak week bookings only and the other accepting short breaks, it will give a proper indication of success/failure at the end of the season. Personally, we do not offer short breaks in peak season, but I have n...

Hello Roz, First of all well done! I have no technical ability myself. having had to go down the promotemyplace route, but I think the website is very good. From a users point of view it has everything I would be looking for and some enticing descriptions. In fact I have bookmarked you for a potenti...

Bit of an update, still no summer peak weeks booked, but today had a booking for February 2014 and a few days earlier an enquiry for August 2014, go figure!

Liked, up to 26 now, come on hatters just another 4 needed!

Just wondered how you are all doing in regards to peak weeks. Our bookings are strong until we hit the 6 week summer period, then only one week booked so far. Not worried yet, as plenty of time, but, how are your summer bookings?

Hi Booboo, Thank you! Yes, I did get a pro in to do the photos, Tracey Bloxham from inside photography has her own business and covers our area, but she also works for cottages4you (found out later). She was very good, especially in positioning, ideas etc and the cost was £250 for 10 photos. I have ...

Thanks Nemo, edited now

I also used promote my place for my website www.yorkholidaycottagerental.com they were very professional.and had a great customer service department. I went for the option whereby they did the whole site for me as I am not very good with computers, the cost was very reasonable. Others more able hatt...

I am not equipped at all to advise you on the best way to appear in results. I too have my own website www.yorkholidaycottagerental.com I have not put it up for review yet as I know it needs work, but I am on the second page of google if you type in my website name with gaps between the words. I hav...

I seem to remember a similar situation with another member regarding the Easter period. Personally I would not consider that week to be peak, only the weekend. I class all school holidays as peak period, with adjustments according to demand the rest of the year, although as a newbie I may not get it...

Really well done TC, very much in awe of those with a creative side, I will definitely have a read and suggest to my bookworm family members that they do likewise.

I was going through the recommendations for holiday lets and realised that as we have 6 windows upstairs which are less than one metre from the floor, we need to fit window limiters. Two of the windows have potential access for little ones due to the built in drawer furniture which enables them to c...

We had no idea how the first part of the year to May would be as that marks the start of our first full year. All together we have 16 bookings, but no summer high season, Christmas and Easter are booked, all but 4 weeks are for weekend breaks. We do however have have 2 short breaks booked for one we...