Welcome to the owners section

Welcome to the Owner's section

Please remember to be very wary of SCAM e-mails

Please remember to be very wary of SCAM e-mails. Never accept payment that is more than you require as you will be asked to forward the change, and then find out that their payment has bounced – leaving you considerably out of pocket.

Remember: If in doubt – throw it out!

It may be worth noting that the majority of scam e-mails mention Africa, West Africa or something to do with a church. To help assist you identify the latest scam e-mails we have listed below the current known scam e-mail addresses you should simply delete:

Lora Brown - prettylora78@yahoo.com / / prettylora79@gmail.com
Peter Hernandex - phernanadex@yahoo.com

Advertising Rate & VAT

Please be advised that our advertising rates have now become subject to VAT charges.

As I'm sure you are aware, this is a government requirement and beyond our control. Our advertising rate for lets renewals remains the same as previous years at just £45, but now with the addition of VAT.

As the addition of VAT was causing confusion for new advertisers, the new advertising rates have been rounded up to £55 which includes the VAT charge. This figure will also be introduced to renewals from 1st April 2009.

We are pleased to announce new website updates for 2008

We are pleased to announce new site updates for 2008. We have now started work on re-designing the whole site and will also be including the following features:

Advanced search facility introduced, including the ability for customers to search for availability
You will be able to update your own price and availability list
You will be able to update your own photos, text and page

We are currently working on the new site and hope to have this finished as soon as possible.

Dean & Bev

New sister website now up and running

As you are aware, directholidayhomes.co.uk will shortly be upgraded with, amongst other features, the ability of owners to update their own webpages. Once the changes have been made we will have more time to promote your caravan and bring you even more customers.

One of the ways we are doing this is by creating a new sister site - CaravanLets.com. This new website is dedicated to caravans in the UK, France & Spain.

We would like to offer all of our valued Direct Holiday Homes owners a chance to include their properties on the new website. As a thank you for all your support over the past few years, we will be giving the first 50 owners a 50% discount.

2008 Price & Availability List

For your convenience we have now created an online price & availability list for the 2008 season, which is very straightforward and easy to complete:

Complete the following form by adding your prices into the price column. If a week is booked simply type "booked".

www.directholidayhomes.co.uk/price_list_2008.html

Late Deals

Advertising in our Late Deals section is free service that we provide to help maximise your letting potential. The criteria for advertising in this section are as follows:

You must provide us with a set start date, end date and price
The start date must be within the coming 4 weeks
Only breaks of 7+ nights can be included in this section
Only 1 late deal advertised at any one time
You must notify us as soon as your late deal changes

All that we ask in return for this free service is that you notify us immediately your availability changes so that we can keep the pages as fresh and up to date as possible.

Remember: If you are unable to help someone, refer them to the late deals section – you may be desperate to book a late deal out yourself one day and grateful of any help!!

Keeping your page up to date

It’s now time to start thinking about the 2008 season – although many of you have already started taking bookings!

Please take this opportunity to ensure your webpage is completely up to date. It is important for your prospective customers that any offers you have on your webpage are removed when no longer relevant.

Unfortunately we cannot possibly keep check on when your offers run out, so it is up to you to let us know. Don’t forget, you can update your webpage as many times as you wish throughout your advertising period – all you have to do is send us an e-mail and we will do the rest for you.

Static Caravan Holiday Swaps

Many people have suggested we provide a ‘swap service’ whereby one owner swaps their holiday home for another owner’s for a week or possibly more. We completely agree that this is an excellent idea and the easiest way to accomplish this is to add a logo to the webpage of any owner who would be interested in swapping.

If you are interested in swapping please send us an e-mail and the swap logo will be added to your webpage.

When you see the swap logo on another webpage you know the owner is interested in swapping too. Static Caravan Holiday Swaps

Price and availability lists

Owners who already have a price list on their webpage have found it invaluable as it not only reduces the amount of enquiries just looking for prices but also the repeat enquiries for the same week.

For your convenience we have now created an online price & availability list for the 2008 season, which is very straightforward and easy to complete:

Complete the new 2008 price list

All you then have to do is send us an e-mail when you receive a booking and we will update your list for you.

Bogus e-mails

We have seen an increase in the number of bogus enquiries received that turn out to be companies touting for your business.

To help us eradicate these nuisance e-mails, please let us know if you receive one that has been sent through the system.

Please also remember to be very wary of SCAM e-mails. Never accept payment that is more than you require as you will be asked to forward the change, and then find out that their payment has bounced – leaving you considerably out of pocket.

Remember: If in doubt – throw it out!

Amendment requests

You may make as many updates and amendments to your webpage as you wish throughout your advertising period.

Important: It is essential that when you request amendments to your webpage you not only include your property reference number but you also send your request from the e-mail address we forward your enquiries to.

Complaints

For the integrity of our website it is vitally important that any complaints are kept to a minimum.

We have therefore imposed a ‘three strikes’ rule. In effect, what this means is that if any one owner receives more than two complaints, their webpage will be removed from our website and any monies paid will be non-refundable.