0 Shares VRS031 – How to Give Your Vacation Rental Guests a Great Nights Sleep – with Alanna Schroeder Have you checked out The Book of Awesome? Written by Canadian Neil Pasricha who The Toronto Star called “the guru of small joys”. This collection of 1000 little pleasures we all share will have you laughing and nodding on every page. #858 – The Other Side of the Pillow – is one of my favourites. […]
0 Shares Keeping Your Guests Cool – Summer Bedding Explained If you have air conditioning your guests will be in control of the temperature within the property, but many places do not have the benefit of AC and it’s therefore important to make sure they will be comfortable sleeping in the heat of the summer. Even with overhead and portable fans, on the hottest of […]
0 Shares Vacation Rental Bedrooms – Quality Counts We spend a third of our lives in bed and this is the same for our vacations. In fact, for many people, a holiday is a time for spending even more time catching up on sleep, having lie-ins, and hopefully luxuriating in comfort with a morning coffee or a good book last thing at night. […]
0 Shares The Power of WOW – 30 Seconds to Increasing Revenue Studies by neuroscientists have shown that ancient neural circuits in the brain are activated when decisions are made on the importance of objects in the environment, allowing us to make rapid assessments and judgements. This is what we know as ‘first impressions’ and this work has shown how we form them within the first 30 […]
0 Shares VRS005 – Creating Family Friendly Holiday Success With Wendy Shand In this session of the Vacation Rental Success Podcast, I’m excited to have a chat with successful holiday rental entrepreneur, Wendy Shand of UK-based Tots To Travel. Launched in 2006, Tots to Travel has grown to be one of the UK’s leading agencies focusing on safe family-friendly accommodation in the UK and Europe and has […]
0 Shares How to Create ‘WOW’ Moments in the Kitchen It’s less than a week now until I head off to Phoenix to speak at the Home Away Summit, and I’m getting really psyched up for it. I love talking about this business and I’m so looking forward to a whole weekend of immersion in vacation rentals, with lots of vacation rental people. There’s a […]
0 Shares Second Best Can Be First Class – Tips For Second Bedrooms We see so many vacation homes during the course of a year and one thing that has struck me is that owners seem to pay far more attention to the master bedroom than the others. While these rooms are larger and often have ensuite bathrooms, there really is no reason to downgrade the second and […]
0 Shares 50 Flipkey Reviews – Our Vacation Rental Success! This week saw a landmark for us as the 50th Review was posted for my own Osprey Cottage on Flipkey, I’m bowled over by the success of this because: · We don’t promote the cottage · We don’t have an active website for as it’s advertised on our agency listing site · It’s not […]
0 Shares Staying Competitive in the Vacation Rental Market – the WiFi Connection I would not rent a property without Wifi. That is one of my ‘must-have’ criteria. Others will not consider places unless they are pet-friendly, and there are many more who are not interested in staying in a place that doesn’t offer post rental cleaning, either included in the rental rate, or offered at an additional […]
0 Shares It’s the Little Things that Make a Vacation Rental Perfect We’ve been at Pura Vida a week now with a few more days to go, and like most guests in a vacation rental, are fully settled. We know where stuff is in the kitchen, we have our own favourite spots to sit and enjoy the sun or shade, the fridge is stuffed with food and […]
