New HolidayLettings.co.uk Video Ads

Be one of the first to display a video of your home on your ad on the HolidayLettings.co.uk website. Holiday Lettings is proud to share with us the news that they are the first of the major holiday home advertising websites to enable their advertisers to upload videos of their holiday home rental property to their advert.

“Introduced in response to demand both from holiday home owners and holidaymakers, videos provide potential renters an even richer insight into the home they are interested in renting.”

HolidayLettings.co.uk Premium Adverts

Video is only available on Holiday Lettings Premium Adverts, these typically deliver 20-30% more enquiries than the Classic Adverts. Other benefits of a premium advert are an extended photo gallery and crucially, an enhanced / highlighted listing in the search results.

HolidayLettings.co.uk Advertiser Guarantee

20 rental enquiries in 12 months or your money back!
When a new advertiser joins HolidayLettings.co.uk and chooses the annual option, Holiday Lettings will give them a Peace of Mind Guarantee – if their advert attracts less than 20 enquiries in the 12 month advertising period HolidayLettings.co.uk will refund their payment in full.

To find out more about advertising your holiday home for rental on Holiday Lettings and for more information on registering your advert with the rental guarantee please visit www.holidaylettings.co.uk/whychooseus.htm
Registration is free, so you can input your property details and photos, preview your advert and get an idea of how the service works with no obligation to continue.

Fancy winning your own holiday home which you could use for endless villa holidays or rent out with holiday lettings ? Here’s your chance…

The Daily Mail is giving away a holiday cottage in beautiful Normandy, France in their latest competition and we have collected the necessary twenty password to enable you to enter.

As an alternative the winner of this free to enter competition can choose a cool £75’000.

Register your entry online at http://www.dailymailoffers.co.uk/frenchhouse/

Passwords for Daily Mail French Holiday Home Giveaway

1. Rouge
2. Champagne
3. Camembert
4. Garlic
5. Brie
6. Paris
7. Vin
8. Snail
9. Frog
10. Plage
11. Cafe
12. Pate
13. Fromage
14. Eiffel
15. Beret
16. Baguette
17. Croissant
18. Sunshine
19. Crepe
20. Bonjour

If you enter the above twenty passwords after you have registered you’ll be in the prize to win the Daily Mail’s french cottage prize draw.

Good Luck

Villa Parade Best Offers

• Second Week Half Price Book 2 weeks villa holidays departing on your chosen destination’s departure day between 13 March – 16 June and 10 September – 24 October and receive the second week half price (subject to certain villas and apartments – please check the last paragraph of each property to see if this offer applies). Book on-line at VillaParade.co.uk – enter promo code WK2 on the booking form to receive the offer and Villa Parade will amend the reservation price once booked. This offer is also valid if you choose to stay in different properties each week.
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VillaParade.co.uk Promotion Codes

• Use code AFFVP2010 for a £25 Early Season Saving on bookings to depart between March and May 2010.
• Use code AFFVP2010 £40 High Season Saving on bookings to depart between July and October 2010

Holiday Lettings (co.uk) In Numbers . . .

Impressive stuff, and evidence that the holiday letting by owner market has really grown up.

• 33% - Increase in holiday booking enquiries year on year for January.
• 129 - Mentions of the Holiday Lettings brand in travel and property media this month, that’s more than ever before!.
• £2m - Marketing budget for 2010.
• 25m - Visitors to the site in 2009.
• £10,000 - Average annual rental income stated by Holiday Lettings advertisers.
• 36,000 - Properties worldwide are advertised on the website.
• 20 – Minimum number of rental enquiries guaranteed in 12 months when you sign up for a year.
• 75 staff at Holiday Lettings including - 27 in customer service roles.

Find out more about advertising on Holiday Lettings.

VillaParade.co.uk Promotional Codes

Save money on your Villa Parade Summer Holiday in 2010 with these promotional codes.

· £50 Early Booking saving – All Villa Parade destinations! Applies to bookings for departure between March & October 2010. AFFVP2010 - More Info.

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· Save £50 per week – All VillaParade destinations! Applies for  bookings with departure dates in June 2010 only. AFFVPJUNE - More Info

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Villa Parade Holidays offer hight quality, hand picked villas in fantastic holiday resorts throughout Europe. With a Villa Parade promotional code you can make big savings off their already great value villa packages. Just use the code in the box at the bottom of the holiday extras booking form on their website.

1) Improve the photos on your adverts. A picture is a thousand words and all that. Take photos when it is sunny – a shot of a breakfast table fully loaded with fresh local produce is a sure fire winner. Play to your strengths with your photos and take pictures of the most beautiful bits – however don’t leave out for example an exterior shot, it might seem suspicious to potential villa renters.

2) Sign up to holiday lettings. It’s where your customers are looking and they are spending over two million quid on advertising this year.

3) Make time for yourself to enjoy the villa !. Don’t fall into the trap of making your holiday home rental a chore and a bore. Where possible reserve some time for yourself and friends and family to enjoy the villa.

4) Update and improve the really useful information you leave in the villa for your guests. You want your guests to have a great time, tell all their friends and come back themselves don’t you ?

Here are the main benefits of a villa rental holiday compared with a hotel package.

• Space
• Privacy
• Value for Money

Despite widespread rumours of the demise of the package holiday, the fact is that the number of package holiday passengers going from the UK is fairly steady. What has happened along side this, in the last ten years or so is a boom in low cost flights and holiday home ownership.  This has in turn led to a lot of villas and apartments in the sun being made available for holiday makers.

People are clearly recognising the benefits of villa holidays but the package holiday remains a staple for many families too according to recent research by holiday giant TUI.

Well known companies like Hoseasons Villas and Villa Parade offer the best of both worlds with all the benefits of a private villa rental with the financial protection, customer service and many years experience you would expect from a package holiday company.