VRBO Non English Sites
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 3:52 pm
I'm having a bit of a mare, and I'm sure there must be an easy fix even if the guy on the VRBO helpline doesn't seem to know what to do. I have recently listed my Spanish village house on VRBO via their 'transfer' service which lifted the majority of the info from my Booking.com listing. Even so I have spent some hours fine tuning it and getting all the VRBO ducks in a row. Since I started renting out my village house the majority of my guests have been Spanish, so I thought I'd nip over to VRBO España and see how it looked. OMG It's utter garbage. None of my carefully thought out narrative is there, and instead there is one clumsy statement in Spanish which is full of incorrect information. In English it translates back to:
"In this non-smoking vacation home you can enjoy ecological routes, climbing and much more within a short distance. If you get in the car, you will be 75 minutes from the Port of Malaga and 70 minutes from Malaga Cathedral. In addition, the accommodation has on-site parking where you can leave your vehicle. Relax on the porch or patio and enjoy amenities like outdoor furniture at this vacation home. For a change, come in and enjoy the free Wi-Fi and stereo player. Prepare a home-cooked meal in the kitchen, which is equipped with an oven, stovetop, and refrigerator, along with coffee/tea makers, an electric kettle, and a microwave. The bathroom includes a hair dryer, towels and toilet paper. And since you can take advantage of the washer and dryer, you won't need to carry a lot of luggage. Other amenities include a grill, linens, an ironing board, and heating."
I bet you cannot WAIT to book such an attractive holiday home. I am NOT 75 mins from central Malaga, I am 45 mins away, I do NOT have on site parking (the village house is on a tiny street built when mule was the only form of transport and there is no vehicular access at all). The word they use for 'grill' is 'parrilla', which is usually a charcoal or wood cooking thing like a BBQ. I do NOT have a BBQ. But apparently I DO have toilet paper, so that makes up for it. I have checked other non English sites for my listing and the same rubbish is on there too. How do I go about totally disabling translation so that my listing appears everywhere in the language in which it was written?
"In this non-smoking vacation home you can enjoy ecological routes, climbing and much more within a short distance. If you get in the car, you will be 75 minutes from the Port of Malaga and 70 minutes from Malaga Cathedral. In addition, the accommodation has on-site parking where you can leave your vehicle. Relax on the porch or patio and enjoy amenities like outdoor furniture at this vacation home. For a change, come in and enjoy the free Wi-Fi and stereo player. Prepare a home-cooked meal in the kitchen, which is equipped with an oven, stovetop, and refrigerator, along with coffee/tea makers, an electric kettle, and a microwave. The bathroom includes a hair dryer, towels and toilet paper. And since you can take advantage of the washer and dryer, you won't need to carry a lot of luggage. Other amenities include a grill, linens, an ironing board, and heating."
I bet you cannot WAIT to book such an attractive holiday home. I am NOT 75 mins from central Malaga, I am 45 mins away, I do NOT have on site parking (the village house is on a tiny street built when mule was the only form of transport and there is no vehicular access at all). The word they use for 'grill' is 'parrilla', which is usually a charcoal or wood cooking thing like a BBQ. I do NOT have a BBQ. But apparently I DO have toilet paper, so that makes up for it. I have checked other non English sites for my listing and the same rubbish is on there too. How do I go about totally disabling translation so that my listing appears everywhere in the language in which it was written?