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- Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:00 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: 2019 Bookings up or down on 2018
- Replies: 51
- Views: 16106
Hi Annew You would have expected the UK to look more attractive with the drop in exchange rates. We usually get 2-3 German bookings per year, not had any yet. We have no bookings in the summer to speak of but May and June looking better than previous years so far. I can't really say I can see a patt...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:19 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: HA and property managers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1447
Hi Nigel, Is that £250 per property or in total? I think I paid £250 for the first property then an additional smaller fee for the second. The problem with that approach is they come under the same listing. I plan to go to commission at renewal at the moment as they have provided very little in the ...
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 5:30 pm
- Forum: Just starting out
- Topic: Smart tv
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3186
This is something we have been looking at, I can imaging some guests will use their own login. As suggested the BBC one now needs you to login on another device to activate the token. We plan to create dummy accounts for each property. We quite often get guests who have logged in to Netflix or Amazo...
- Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:22 pm
- Forum: Just starting out
- Topic: Parking
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3177
Not tried to ask booking.vom to change the listing detail, can you do that? Their chosen description of our place is a joke. For me personally parking is a massive deal, particularly if staying in a seaside town with limited parking. My personal view is that if a listing states parking I am expectin...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:24 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Year end accounts - HA/Yapstone payments
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2878
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 7:25 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Late October Doldrums
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3860
Hi Sid T That is an interesting comment and I do understand it. The reality is that our routes to market are constantly changing and none of them are free. It's great to get direct bookings but to do so you need a good and up to date web site and work whatever methods to drive customers their which ...
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 1:42 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Late October Doldrums
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3860
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:49 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Late October Doldrums
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3860
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 4:35 pm
- Forum: Scam email enquiries
- Topic: Scam email enquiries
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2320
I have had a couple in the last week, I am stringing them along for a bit of fun having seen this. http://www.bitoffun.com/video_vault/joe-lycett-renting-property.htm my chap tells me he working in Wales for a month before coming to stay with us for a month. In my last message I told him I was trave...
- Fri Oct 19, 2018 6:42 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Winter let pricing
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6603
Hi, We often get slightly longer winter lets. We tend to offer a discounted rate but ask the guest to pay all energy bills at cost. We have had some guests be stupid with the heating which is electric so this has protected us from a massive bill. For our similar property that we would let at £450 fo...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:53 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: When do you start to get bookings for next year
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7623
I think our market (rural Dorset) is more like Greenbarn. We have bookings for next Easter but that's it for next year. We got quite a few for this summer starting around December (Bookings taken). We are finding that bookings come later, particularly true with AirBnB and the like. in late August we...
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:43 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: booking.com payments
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1038
booking.com payments
Hi All, We take the odd booking via Booking.vom but we are clearly doing something wrong on payments. Currently we request a card on booking.vom to secure the booking but as they did not previously take online payments this just secures the booking, they still need to pay us directly. Our guests alw...
- Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:24 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Anyone used or know of room occupancy sensors?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1489
I have been looking at this for a family member who is replacing storage heaters. I assume you have checked with the manufacturer of your heaters? I think you would need to either have something that integrates with the current controller or have to replace the heating element. if the heaters plug i...
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 2:41 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: ABB Cleaning Fee
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2351