Villa Needed Urgently

[Lakul]

Perhaps you might think different if you owned a villa

[fiona]

I thought villa owners weren't meant to respond to enquiries on the forum like this??? Surely we should all abide by the rules.

[bellaepovera]

If you want a condo I can match that price!!

[steph_goodrum]

Bernie
As villa owners we are constantly being criticised for what are perceived to be high prices, the assumption being if we can afford 2 homes we must have loads of money. In fact quite the reverse is true, since most of us bought our homes with quite large mortgages and are forever putting money in to try and enhance the holidaymakers experience. Many offer Playstation, Internet etc at no extra charge. Last week at Wembley I paid £70 for 2 twin beds for myself and daughter at a Hilton hotel, which was shabby to say the least, to use the inbuilt Playstation cost £4.95 an hour and net access £6 per hour.
Approx 12% of the cost of rental is taken up by Sales and Tourist tax before we ever see any money towards any of our upkeep.
If the cost of your villa was £500 per person per night that works at (for your family of 4) to just £17 per person per night.
If there were 8 in your party only £8.50 per night.
What would you expect if you found a hotel for that price... not much I'm sure.
Some guests try to barter the price down constantly to the lowest level yet will happily spend £200 per person on a Disney park ticket....because Disney won't reduce their price we are asked to lower our price so people can afford a holiday. Our answer to them is if it means you have to cut corners to get your holiday of a lifetime is to ask them to save for another year and come back when they are willing to pay the proper rates required to enable us to maintain our villas to the high standard we all like to keep.
I can't remember the last time I did my weekly shop and said to the shop ....I am prepared to pay xxxx.. If I can't afford to pay the price asked, it will stay on the shelf till I can, or I will go without.
I hope you don't think there was any offence intended in any of this but we are just trying to show you our perspective. Last Christmas my brother decided he was able to come over to Florida with us after we had booked, we had paid £340 for our seats, when we tried to book his 6 months before we travelled the price was £604, when we told them what ours costs, the reply from Virgin was "they're the last seats on the plane ... take it or leave it" He took it because he wanted to go and was prepared to pay what they asked.

[Michelle]

Agree with you on hundred percent Steph. No way would I drop my rates by over £200 per week just to have some one stay in our 3 bed room villa...