0 Shares Giving Your Guests a Good Read I’ve been on vacation for a few weeks now on our annual road trip to the US and have already got through seven books. I save all my fiction reading for this trip since the rest of the year I’m usually immersed in How-To books on scintillating topics like SEO, WordPress plugins and Facebook […]
0 Shares How to Wow your Guests and Stand out from the Competition I’ve stayed in many vacation rentals over the past few years and find my tolerance levels to lower standards have dropped significantly. The days have gone when it was acceptable to have the cheapest appliances and kitchen equipment; uncomfortable beds with thin comforters and insufficient pillows, and bookcases filled with unwanted Readers’ Digest condensed books. […]
0 Shares Staging For Your Vacation Rental When professional stagers work on a home that is for sale and create a fabulous look for the listing, they know that after the home is sold, their job is done and they can move all the staging materials out, leaving it bare and ready for the purchasers to put their own mark on the […]
0 Shares How to Welcome Your Winter Guests Winter is a little slow arriving here in Ontario with Christmas fast approaching and no sign of a white Christmas yet. However, that doesn’t stop us from preparing our vacation rentals for the snow and arctic temperatures bound to come before too long. Our guests will arrive wanting to kick back and enjoy their weekend […]
0 Shares Washing bedding in vacation rental homes How often do you wash the bedding in your vacation rental property? I don’t mean the sheets and pillow covers that are more likely to come into direct contact with guests’ skin – I’m also referring to blankets, comforters, duvet covers, mattress and pillow protectors. Should they be washed after each rental? When we first […]
0 Shares Vacation Rentals & Internet Access – Is There Demand? Finding a cottage rental in UK that has hi-speed internet is not an easy task as we found out recently when looking for a couple of rentals for our upcoming trip. The challenge we faced was not only to find a place that was available for the time we wanted, but to check the internet […]
0 Shares Toilet Paper Not Included – Cottage Rental Gone Minimal I consider myself a professional vacation rental owner in that I consider my guests to be paying travellers who deserve respect and trust. So it was with a degree of shock that I recently spoke with an owner of a rental property with an alternative perspective on the industry. His initial approach was to tell […]
0 Shares Delight Your Guests with Beautiful Beds I wouldn’t normally blow my own trumpet but as a lead-in to a bit of a rant, I have given myself permission on this occasion. And anyhow, it’s my blog and I can do as I please so here is a snippet from one of my Osprey Cottage reviews on Flipkey: “What I liked the […]
0 Shares Will Your Guests Love Your Kitchen? With thanks to Marcia of the food blog , ‘The Aperitif’, I am able to illustrate one of my own pet peeves about cottage or vacation rental – the underwhelming kitchen. Here’s just a short excerpt from her latest post, Vacation Rental Blues: “It never fails…one can always expect to find a trusty cast iron […]
0 Shares Cottage for Rent But Bring Your Own Pillows & Toilet Paper Sometimes I despair of getting the message across, particularly in my part of the world. Traditionally, cottage rental was simply an alternative to camping – with walls and a roof being the difference, and an inside toilet an absolute luxury. Over the past 5 years, it’s been a slow move to the realisation that ‘renters’ […]
