Help Rental Villa Needed!!

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

Just another thought - do you have a laptop because if you can take that, any villa has internet access. Just sign yourself up for www.access4free.com before you go and it's a max of $10 for the time you are there (assuming you are there less than a month) and then you can safely leave the account open (or ask for it to be closed) for no more cost. Make sure you take a note of the access number local to the villa you eventually book.

So that whittles down your list to a PS2 and private yard - both of which were nicities according to your post above.

Thus I think you should be ok with just about any villa.

Hope this helps. I've just sent out your general enquiry on our www.villasflorida.com which I do not think you have done one on so hopefully you should get some answers from there.[msnsmile2]

[stabard]

Might want to try a general enquiry on the onlinefloridavillas.com site too as there are a lot of new owners there who may have availablity.

[Ray&Sarah]

Sorry to hear about your villa being cancelled, there must be villas with availability out there.[msnsmile2]

[JLBEEKEN]

I am so sorry your villa was cancelled!! Hopefully you will find a place to stay soon!!

[ravtino]

Come on HSB we are all wondering if you have got a villa!!

[Stephen Janes]

I hope that by now a suitable villa could have been found

[HSB]

After 2 days of hard searching we have narrowed it down to a handfull and I mean handfull. None of these villas have everything the 1st one did ie 50" Plasma TV(Rare)/Net Access/ Games etc etc.

Hopefully a few more will appear but I doubt it, so tomorrow we will know which one to go with. If I owned a villa I can tell you now that I would be offering 100% the use of:

PS2
Internet + PC
Games Room if there is space
Spa
Baby Facilities

90% of properties advertised on this site and its related sites don't have any of the above which is a real shame, so from a consumers point of view it has been very dissapointing search.

Thanks for all the help.

HSB

[rainyday]

HSB,

I think you're being a bit harsh on the villa owners. You're looking for somewhere with less than a month to go so your search is necessarily going to be a bit restricted. I also don't think it's a true observation that 90% of the villas don't have ANY of the items on your list. I left it a bit late to book for Easter next year and had to compromise a bit on my wish list but it didn't occur to me to blame owners for not having everything I was looking for - most of the villas here are holiday homes so people will include in their villas what they want for their own holidays (and possibly items which will compensate for their cost in more bookings and/or higher rates).

[heathercobbett]

Just a suggestion,but have you thought of splitting your holiday between 2 villas?

We were going to get a 50" t.v. but were advised that in Florida a storm often means the t.v. needs resetting,necessitating a very expensive trip by the m.c. (not to mention our guests being without their t.v. for a while)

We therefore compromised on a 36" wide screen with 300 channels inc. B.B.C. and H.B.O. which our guests love

[huckleberry house]

HSb

You will find that the most desirable homes are already booked for your dates, I suspect that a high majority of homes on these sites have the facilities you were looking for but werent available for your dates. Lets face it if the villa owner had spent so much on adding all these extras and then wasnt able to book the home then the cost wouldnt have been justified anyway meaning there isnt a demand for those items. As there is a demand that choice wasnt open to you.

I dont quite understand why your original villa was cancelled nor why the owner didnt do more to find you an alternative home ??

Lesley