Share 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 […]
Share Who Wants Happy Vacation Rental Guests? Here’s a note from my guest book following a rainy few days at Osprey Cottage. ‘We came here looking for a place to sleep and cook the occasional meal while […]
Share Who should not be in the vacation rental business? There are two distinct types of vacation rental properties, each with their own drawbacks from a rental guest perspective. The cottage or holiday home that has been bought for investment […]
Share Vacation Renters Speak Out And Owners Need To Listen Following on from my post yesterday about renter feedback on finding a property to rent, the other question we were asking people at the Cottage Show in Mississauga was about […]
Share 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 […]
Share Is Your Vacation Rental Home Family Friendly? This is a question we hear occasionally although it’s not one of the most common ones our rental agency receives. When I ask the potential renter what they mean by […]
Share How To Create A 5 Star Rental Review Against The Odds Surfing around Flipkey last weekend I found a review for a cottage which read “It rained, and rained and rained some more. Our longed for vacation was a complete washout. […]
Share Let’s Respect Our Vacation Rental Guests and Provide Them With Pillows! I clicked through a Google Ad today to a site advertising a cottage rental here in Ontario. I thought I would approach it as a potential renter and see how […]
Share Does It Sell More Chickens? Or…Do We Really Need That Patio Heater? Every so often I go off on a tangent and decide we need something for the cottage that will please our guests and keep them coming back for more. And […]
Share How to Contribute to Greener Vacation Rentals My good friend and author of children’s books on composting, Larraine Roulston is an environmental journalist and over the past few years has taught me a lot about living responsibly […]
