What Would Make You Feel Welcome in a Holiday Cottage?

poet123

Only ever online for me, unless it was via a personal recommendation

1jim

Online also, don't think have ever booked any other way...... Oh actually we did maybe 12+ years ago but that was from one of the holiday brochures Irish country cottages or something like that. Only ever done online since

Torry_Quine

I tend to look for holiday accomodation online via the local tourist board web-site. Most often I then phone them to book.

Scorpio_girlie

Defintely book online. Don't know if this has been mentioned previously, but a torch is useful!

OneYorkshireLass

grr ... old thread.

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daveyjp

As this thread is ongoing a couple of other things for owners.

Read the visitor book and fix faults. We stayed in a cottage in August and visitors going back to March this year were commenting that the TV was missing channels including BBC1 and the hot water supply was poor.

I fixed the TV in 5 minutes by doing a full factory reset and retune, but I wasn't willing to replace a combi boiler!

Please also go through the places of interest files. Timetables fom 3 years ago are no good to anyone as aren't leaflets and menus for places which have closed down. We did our bit and threw these away.

vikingaero

If you have a diary then make a note in March/October to change the VCR/clock/boiler timers. We went on holiday to one lodge where we woke up freezing because the heating came on late.

s_b

make sure the place doesnt smell musty and dont kill it with cheap sprays
i also only book places that dont accept pets