Short Stay Potential Booking
Ms_Chocaholic
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I saw a cottage on a well known website that had 2 nights free in July and the cottage looked lovely. The details said they only accepted a minimum of 3 night stay but as the 2 days fell between 2 other bookings, I hoped I could book this. The website quoted a per night stay of £159.
I enquired and they were willing to accept the booking but offered a 20% discount off a 3 night stay. So, a 3 night stay would cost £477 and they were willing to offer it to me for a 20% discount so it would cost me £383 which made it £190 a night. When I queried this the cottage owner said he still had the cleaning fee and the hot tub to empty.
Does anyone else find this quite odd!
I enquired and they were willing to accept the booking but offered a 20% discount off a 3 night stay. So, a 3 night stay would cost £477 and they were willing to offer it to me for a 20% discount so it would cost me £383 which made it £190 a night. When I queried this the cottage owner said he still had the cleaning fee and the hot tub to empty.
Does anyone else find this quite odd!
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Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »I saw a cottage on a well known website that had 2 nights free in July and the cottage looked lovely. The details said they only accepted a minimum of 3 night stay but as the 2 days fell between 2 other bookings, I hoped I could book this. The website quoted a per night stay of £159.
I enquired and they were willing to accept the booking but offered a 20% discount off a 3 night stay. So, a 3 night stay would cost £477 and they were willing to offer it to me for a 20% discount so it would cost me £383 which made it £190 a night. When I queried this the cottage owner said he still had the cleaning fee and the hot tub to empty.
Does anyone else find this quite odd!
£383 for 3 nights is £127.67 a night not £190.
How could you have a 3 night stay anyway if there's only 2 nights between other bookings?0 -
Thanks, no that's how she explained it. I was confused too and replied to the original owner's email stating the cost of £383 was for 3 nights and I only wanted 2.
The owner was offering a discount on the 3 night rate of 20%, in effect not a discount at all, she was in fact increasing the cost from £159 per night's stay to £190. We just wanted to stay 2 nights, that suited us and that was all that was available for that period (and more importantly £159 was the price quoted on the website per night)
Here's the wording:
Owner:
Hi Ms Choc, I can offer a discount on the 3 night rate of 20% so the cost would be £381.60 plus the small website fee. If this would be okay let me know.
Me:
I think you've quoted me for a 3 night stay (£381.60) when there are only 2 nights.
Owner:
Hi Ms Choc, it's usually £159 per night so 3 nights would be £477. That's my minimum really but have offered you 2 nights at £190.80 per night = £381.60. I still have the cleaning fee and the hot tub to empty etc which is why I usually only accept 3 nights. 2 nights cost slightly more per night.Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time0 -
I can see where she's coming from. She have to do as much work for a 2 night booking as a 3 night booking, but for less money. Perhaps she'd rather leave it empty !!!55357;!!!56833;0
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Sorry, didn't realise she was only offering a 20% discount from the 3 night price, even though you were only going for 2 nights.0
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Sorry, didn't realise she was only offering a 20% discount from the 3 night price, even though you were only going for 2 nights.
Yeah it was well confusing!Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
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