SilliamWhale
Member
What are you doing about deposits for people who cancel holiday let holidays?
Corona - Holiday Lets
- Thread starter SilliamWhale
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Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
Can you encourage them to roll the booking over?
I’m sure many would prefer a refund tho, jus thinking rolling it over may encourage them to come back rather than go elsewhere.
I’m sure many would prefer a refund tho, jus thinking rolling it over may encourage them to come back rather than go elsewhere.
spin cycle
Member
- Location
- north norfolk
not got many bookings......gonna offer refunds or rollover......desperate hit for us 
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Mum had an apartment booked in Greece and decided to cancel. She assumed she would lose her deposit.
The apartment owner sent her deposit back and said we are all in this thing together.
Mum says if we get through this she will rebook the same place. So will I if it helps them.
The apartment owner sent her deposit back and said we are all in this thing together.
Mum says if we get through this she will rebook the same place. So will I if it helps them.
ollie989898
Member
Encourage them to roll the booking forward.
In the circumstances you should (morally) give the deposit back?
In the circumstances you should (morally) give the deposit back?
SilliamWhale
Member
My feeling is if I could get the bank to give me a 1 year freeze on loans for them I could get through ok. Farm could contribute a bit for sure.
Wonder if something will emerge this week.
I'm not moaning by the way I know many are in a lot worse position than me.
Wonder if something will emerge this week.
I'm not moaning by the way I know many are in a lot worse position than me.
Steevo
Member
- Location
- Gloucestershire
This virus certainly seems to have hit the major growth industries of recent years hardest - leisure, travel, eating out, shopping etc.
It will take a while for those to recover too I think - if people have been hit hard even when it's over there may not be the money to spend on luxuries for a while until finances are better.
It will take a while for those to recover too I think - if people have been hit hard even when it's over there may not be the money to spend on luxuries for a while until finances are better.
My in-laws have contacted all their bookings and offered credit notes for 12 months and all but one have taken up the offer.
ollie989898
Member
There you go Will, roll it all forward??
if you cancel they will be covered by their insurance
im having to claim on mine, I should be on a piste in France today ?
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Airbnb are offering full refunds including their admin fee. April went from full to empty in the space of a few hours on Thursday afternoon.
The one glimmer of hope, if I’ve read it correctly, is that businesses claiming small business rate relief will be eligible for a £10,000 grant through the local authority next month.
The one glimmer of hope, if I’ve read it correctly, is that businesses claiming small business rate relief will be eligible for a £10,000 grant through the local authority next month.
ollie989898
Member
Will can you contact your bank/account manager, explain the situation and ask?
- Location
- South Wales UK
SilliamWhale
Member
He'll be busy enough this week. I'll leave it 10 days to see what happens
Woolless
Member
- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
We were just about to put our new holiday let online with the agency this week. Had a barney with the wife about it earlier in the week, as I felt encouraging people to come was against the spirit of the advice to avoid non-essential travel. The ban on pubs etc. opening puts operating a holiday let at the minute even more out of step with the current situation. However, I saw a local place advertised as 'come and self-isolate at....' and the biggest local players are fully booked with folk doing the same.
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Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Some excellent points well made by the doctor on that vid.
ollie989898
Member
He could have said what he needed to say in 10 words but I agree.