I have noticed a few of the members advertise on Holiday Lettings & Owners Direct. After special offers on Holiday Leetings have expired the fees for the same listing will be £360 this includes listing on the dreaded TA. Without TA it will be £286. Special offer from Owners Direct will cost me £144. Unfortunately I can't afford both & with increased costs in portugal I'm not sure I can warrent the expenditure on Holiday lettings. The question is "How does Owners Direct compare".
I already have 4 weeks booked for next year & did get 2 weeks in 2011 & lots of enquiries from another company which cost me nothing this year & will be €90 next.
Holiday Lettings vs Owners Direct
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I was on both until very recently. The only reason I let OD go was because for a year at least I'm gradually dropping them all, as I'm already as booked as I want to be for next year and there's a strong possibility that this pattern will continue for the next couple of years.
That being said, most of my bookings come from HL, with a good proportion from OD. However it isn't always easy to tell which site is doing the best for you. Quite a few people trawl a number of different websites, and the one they book from may just be the last one they looked at. So it's quite possible that they see you on one, but don't book because they're going to try a few other sites, then see you on the second and book from there. But if they hadn't seen you again they may simply go back to where they earmarked you first time. I hope that makes sense.
TC
That being said, most of my bookings come from HL, with a good proportion from OD. However it isn't always easy to tell which site is doing the best for you. Quite a few people trawl a number of different websites, and the one they book from may just be the last one they looked at. So it's quite possible that they see you on one, but don't book because they're going to try a few other sites, then see you on the second and book from there. But if they hadn't seen you again they may simply go back to where they earmarked you first time. I hope that makes sense.
TC
I really liked the visual appeal of HL's site and they used photographs to advantage. Unfortunately, they never delivered the goods and so, reluctantly, we pulled the plug. In retrospect, given the nature of their link up with TA, we probably had a lucky escape. OD, by contrast, has always delivered (for six season now) and are nice people to do business with (again, in my experience).
But the bloke down the road with a similar property would probably have a different story ...
JIm
But the bloke down the road with a similar property would probably have a different story ...
JIm
I always did better with HL. That said, I recently dropped them (at a 6 month cost to me) due to an unfair review situation. Funnily enough though, before, H-R did nothing for me - after I dropped HL though, it has picked up significantly. I'm assuming the guests who would have booked through HL have found me on H-R instead.
Which makes you wonder if it is really necessary to have all these listings in the first place. I just had someone enquire via 2 different listing sites without realising it was the same villa.....Musetta wrote:I always did better with HL. That said, I recently dropped them (at a 6 month cost to me) due to an unfair review situation. Funnily enough though, before, H-R did nothing for me - after I dropped HL though, it has picked up significantly. I'm assuming the guests who would have booked through HL have found me on H-R instead.
He did book though.
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