Review of
HOMELIDAYS(Homelidays.com)
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Summary |
Suitable for France in particular |
Homelidays is a vacation rentals site for European
rentals, particularly for vacation rentals in France.
The Homeliday brand is one of the best known for
vacation rentals in France |
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Listings |
17000 plus |
Homelidays is a very large site with more than 17000
listings. |
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Category |
European |
Homelidays is a European site, which supports 7 different languages (
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
and Dutch). Homelidays has a huge number of French properties (more than
7,000). Rental enquiries come from all
over Europe ( and we have also received enquiries from
the US and Canada). |
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Visitor Traffic |
High |
Homelydays attracts more than 50,000 visitors per day make this a high
traffic site (
see above chart for their latest Alexa traffic ranking.) We have had
excellent success with this listing
59734 in Nice, France. |
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Ease of Use for Advertisers |
High |
Easy to register your site and update
information on Homelidays. Creates a "Personal Dossier" which
tracks
emails received and statistics on searches / enquiries.
Homelidays has an integrated calendar availability tracking limits the
number of enquiries you receive for dates that are
already booked.
Homelidays has a facility for registered renters and owners to write
testimonials, which can be very useful for
differentiating your listing from others.
The fact that owners and renters must register in order
to write a testimonial gives this feature additional
credibility.
Homeliday ads are published in several languages automatically
and the vacation rental owner can indicate languages spoken. Tip :
Recently modified listings show up first in searches, so
modify your listing on Homelidays often to improve your visibility ! |
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Ease of use for Renters |
High |
Homelydays has good
search facilities, including "multi-criteria" searches
that allow searching for specific amenities and by
availability. You can also search for properties with
testimonials from other registered renters.
Renters can set up email alerts to be notified of properties
that match your criteria. Renters can also create a "shopping
basket" of properties that you are interested in.
Homelidays offers "surprise insurance" covering both cancellation
as well as "discrepancies" between actual property and
the description on the Homelidays site. Ads
listed in several languages and the renter can
specify languages that they speak. |
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Cost |
Eur 75/year |
Homelidays is excellent value, given the expected volume of
enquiries. Offers 6 months extra listing for free
if your listing does not produce at least one rental.
Special offers for linking to Homelidays from your
personal website. |
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Owner Comments |
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a comment please
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Renter Comments |
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renter who has used Homelidays and you would like
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