(PRWEB) August 10, 2002
Capetownbookings offers personal, helpful and efficent service and has just launched the new web site http://www.capetownbookings.co.za. It has been gaining recognition as one of the best web sites to find Cape Town accommodation and car hire.
Whether it is a hotel, a guesthouse or self-catering apartment you’re looking for, it is easy to find your favourite place to stay. Photographs and descriptions show you what you’re getting. Once you have made your selection, on booking request, give us your details and send. You will receive confirmation of availability within 24 hours after which you will be stepped through a very easy booking process.
‘There is another reason why this is such a great web site’, says Daniel Buitendag, chief executive officer at Capetownbookings, ‘It offers everything else you need, all in one location. Other services that are available on the web site include booking of conference venues, wedding venues, weekend ‘getaways’ to Cape Town, helicopter flips, limo hire, shuttle services, as well as all vehicle, yacht, helicopter and accommodation bookings for film shoots’.
Other features include a table of contents that makes it even easier to find something on the web site; a ‘Currency Box’ with updated foreign exchange rates and also a FREE travel related newsletter that you may subscribe to.
This web site is easy to navigate and probably one of the best about Cape Town holidays. It offers extensive information and online booking options. Here are the URL again: http://www.capetownbookings.co.za.
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(PRWEB) October 22, 2003
A new player in the car rental market is setting its sights on becoming the first car hire broker to challenge the Holiday Autos mantle.
Launched in March 2003, carrentals.co.uk is already receiving up to 12,000 visitors to the site each day, resulting in over 200,000 visitors in October
(PRWEB) August 9, 2004
Expedia, Thomas Cook, and all of the other UK travel agencies have spent millions advertising there websites on TV to try and bring in more holidaymakers. Can the holiday rental industry compete with that – the answer is no, there are no companies in this industry that have the financial backing to advertise to this level.
So how do we compete then – well more and more people are starting to use the internet, and this is where holiday rental companies can really compete. If you compare a family apartment holiday of 4 to Spain in 2004 the cost from a high street travel agent for July was £700 compared to £520 from company Worldwide Holiday Homes. The low cost is due to the fact that the apartment is rented based on the price of the property, not per person.
Flights were booked through a low cost airline like EasyJet or Jet2.com. It’s a substanial saving and providing that you book your flight a few weeks prior to departing then you can pick up some great deals even during the more expsensive July holiday season.
The holiday rental industry is growing – in the US it’s big business, compared to Europe where the majority of holidaymakers have gone with high street travel agents simply because theres was previously nothing better, and fights were expensive – the introduction of EasyJet changed all that and companies like Holiday Rentals Ltd, Worldwide Holiday Homes and Owners Direct UK.
Worldwide Holiday Homes has a unique service where you can complete a property request form and we’ll search for holiday accommodation which matches your requirements, an email will then be sent to you with links to properties and links to low cost flights, car hire and travel insurance companies.
Holiday Rentals Ltd has the technology and covers over 8,500 holiday rentals worldwide, and Owners Direct UK offer a great family run business with an excellent looking website.
It’s all about offering excellent customer service, support and advice, but unfortunately, in the media holiday rental companies do not get the same amount of press than travel agents, simply because they are registered with an association.
If you would like to interview, please contact Darren Cronian by telephone or email.
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(PRWEB) August 10, 2004
Late availability holidays for the end of the UK summer period through to autumn and winter worldwide travel deals, Havabreak.co.uk takes you away, leaving money in your pocket to spend whilst you are away.
http://www.havabreak.co.uk now even provides 24 hour secure online booking, with 7 days a week telephone ordering. Through advanced ordering systems Havabreak has links directly into international tour and flight operators, allowing you to select from some of the very best last minute ski and travel packages.
Whether a relaxing week in a cottage in the UK or France with a vintage wine takes your fancy, a cheap family holiday to Spain or Cyprus for you and the kids, or even a 7 day no holds barred clubbing week in Ibiza or Tenerife to soak up the sun and nightlife you can find it all at http://www.havabreak.co.uk.
Havabreak provide not only the essentials for any worldwide holiday destination but also provides car hire in Spain with access to some of the best, and cheapest travel insurance schemes available.
Get one of the best cheap package holiday deals available or one of the lowest priced flights you have ever seen at havabreak.co.uk.
Current last minute holidays include 14 nights in Faro from just £219 and 2 weeks in Cyprus from £230 as well as much more. Find out more right now at http://www.havabreak.co.uk.
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(PRWEB) August 22, 2004
Mason adds: “It is important that people buy not only the most competitive cover, but also the right cover for their requirements. Breakdown policies do not automatically provide cover for driving abroad so those planning to cross the channel or venture further afield over the bank holiday should make sure they have the appropriate cover. The last thing you want is to have to pay an extortionate call out fee or to organise a breakdown recovery service in a foreign country.”
It takes less than two minutes to find the least expensive breakdown policy on insuresupermarket.com from over 70 different providers. Firstly customers are asked basic car details, then they need to select the cover they require and finally they can select whether they want to add another person or vehicle to the policy. The cover is divided up as follows:
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(PRWEB) November 22, 2004
For a limited time during the holidays the latest edition of “Car Accident Secrets” is being offered for only $ 10.00. Its our way of wishing you happy holidays and thanking everyone for all the wonderful comments and letters from our readers. We want you to be part of the family too !
CARACCIDENTSECRETS.COM will help you with settling your own claims resulting from a car accident. Injured parties know their case better than anyone, so why should you have to explain your case to another party (the lawyer) just so that they can just repeat it to a claim adjuster at the insurance company ? You can talk to the adjuster directly and settle your claim by yourself. Insurance companies would rather settle a case with you than pay large court costs and additional lawyer’s fees.
CARACCIDENTSECRETS.COM provides the information necessary to work directly with an adjuster without having to go through a lawyer, saving you lots of money and time. In certain cases you may need a lawyer the book has the secret as to when and why.
The book will show you the secret formula that the insurance companies use to determine how much a claim is worth. It’s a secret that can be valuable to you and your family/friends if they are ever in an accident. The book also provides you with the forms you need before and after an accident.
Why pay an lawyer $ 5,000 of a $ 15,000 settlement when you can do it yourself ? Don
(PRWEB) November 26, 2004
Customer satisfaction is playing a big part in retailer
(PRWEB) December 24, 2004
Holidaymakers find their bargain holidays at http://www.holidayholidayholiday.co.uk/index.html and then if they have quick questions about the holiday offer they can ‘log in’ to a live chat function and speak directly to a travel agent online.
Not only is this website great for finding last minute and late holiday deals at http://www.holidayholidayholiday.co.uk/ it now gives holidaymakers a chance to ask travel agents directly about their holiday offer without having to pick up the phone immediately. Great for quick questions about travel Insurance and car hire, or if they need to find out information whilst at work and don’t want to chat on the phone.
One holiday maker has found the service really useful due to a speech problem he suffers from. He was able to chat in detail and ask the relevant questions to a travel agent after finding an offer he liked on the site at http://www.holidayholidayholiday.co.uk/holiday.html and was able to book a holiday. This would normally have taken him at least twice the amount of time that it took through holiday holiday holiday, due to his disability. The ‘travel agent online’ function on the site made the whole process of booking a holiday much easier for him.
Other holidaymakers have commented on the ease of use of the website and how the online chat function adds an extra dimension to the whole experience of finding a bargain holiday.
Visit the site at http://www.holidayholidayholiday.co.uk/ and view the specialist holidays and also cheap holidays placed on the site by over 500 travel agents every day.
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(PRWEB) February 7, 2005
Add to that the fact that you have chosen an idyllic setting for your holiday – “away from it all” – for example the Ionian Islands in Greece (the Caribbean, Turkey, or any other exotic location would be similar), where you can not expect the natives to be as trained and proficient as those in the Hamble. A recent TV commercial for a Jamaican rum shows the very situation.
Let us look at an example – how you should react – how you should carry out the necessary damage limitation steps – and tips as to how you can smooth out the resulting aggravation.
Let’s say you have chartered a yacht in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, for a week. Everything starts off well – until the morning of Day 3, when you are in Ithaca and the engine will not start. After a few vain attempts at sourcing the cause of the malfunction you call the contact number given to you for such eventualities, and a polite individual listens to your problem and says; “Don’t worry, Mr Jones, somebody will come very soon and look at your engine”. What they will, or should, do is to contact their man on the spot. Soon Vangelis arrives, spends a couple of hours with his head buried in the engine compartment, covers all your saloon cushions with oil and grease, and emerges triumphantly holding the fuel pump which he says is the cause of the problem. He states that he will take the pump back to his workshop and repair it.
“How long this repair will take, Vangelis?” You ask.
“Hmm, about a couple of hours” is his reply.
Away he goes, with your pump, and as it is already noon on Day 3 of your holiday, you decide to go and have lunch and then wait for the return of Vangelis. But, there is no sign of Vangelis, or your pump, and much later, as the sun is going down Vangelis’s assistant arrives with the wonderful news that your pump can not be repaired on Ithaca and that it has to go, by ferry, to Patras, where there is a pump specialist, and that it will be returned the next day on the ferry. Whilst this part of the saga is unfolding your blood pressure has gone sky-high. You have also made three more phone calls to the local contact and two back to the UK to your yacht charter agency, with whom you booked the charter in the first place. what you did not know was that Vangelis failed to tell you that – since it was noon, he would first have to go for his lunch, then his siesta, then his cup of coffee then he would have a look at the pump. For him, this is normal behaviour as working in siesta time is “out of the question” in a place like Ithaca. After all, you asked him how long it would take to repair the pump – not when he would come back. He didn’t lie – it took him the forecast two hours to find out that he couldn’t fix your pump.
So, here you are, on the morning of Day4 of your holiday, with a vessel broken down, waiting for Vangelis to arrive. Imagine the state of your blood pressure when noon arrives and no sign of Vangelis. It is not until late that afternoon that a smiling local arrives and invites you to come and join the local Saint’s Day celebrations. To work during siesta time is against local customs but to work on the local Saint’s Day is a crime against humanity. Not only does Vangelis not work on a Saint’s Day but he does not think it appropriate to inform “infidels” of the simple facts of life. For him it is a day to celebrate and anyone who doesn’t realise that should be dead.
You have, by now, made another ten phone calls to your yacht charter agent and to the local contact, as has the charter agency BUT Vangelis doesn’t answer the phone on a Saint’s Day. The only thing you can do is to grin and bear it and join in the festivities. Taking more blood pressure pills or blowing up the village square will not enamour you to the locals, or get your boat fixed – it won’t help you a lot, either.
Now it is the morning of Day 5. Still the yacht is not functioning and nobody has turned up. Now is the time to start believing in “God’s Will”. At around 11 o’clock a smiling Vangelis arrives with your pump – fully functional. He sets to work probably realising that the look in your eye is not indicative of your good temper and feelings towards him. Thus, after an unusually reasonable period of time, with the saloon cushions sporting another layer of grease and oil, with engine testing and cleaning carried out, your boat is ready. However, it is now 5 p.m and too late to set sail for your next port of call, so your departure has to be put off until tomorrow morning.
The morning of Day 6 dawns – and you are ready to sail, but a minor detail now crosses your mind – the only destination open to you is back to your original departure Port or Marina as you only had a week’s holiday, your flight home departs tomorrow morning early, and you need to be back in that port that evening!
What an we learn from this story? However reputable the yacht owner/agency, however new the yacht and its equipment, however well maintained, however careful you may be – this sort of thing can happen to anyone, anywhere. Just change the names and places and a similar problem can arise. Don’t forget also that you can be gale-bound in harbour for days on end.
Can you protect yourself against such a happening, and what should you do when it arises?
The answer to the first question is no, and the suggested reaction to the second is: – relax (difficult though this may at first seem); be patient; try to understand the elements of human nature which will be displayed by all around you – your crew and the “outsiders”.
You could react like the skipper in our story and make endless irate phone calls to everyone you can think of or, as we suggest, you can accept the facts as they are – the problem has arisen.
Try and make the best of a bad job. Explore the locale where you are “marooned”. Make short trips by water-taxi, taxi, hire-car, on foot or by local ferries and keep your crew amused and remaining in holiday mood, i.e. shopping, sightseeing, swimming, enjoying special lunches and dinners, etc.
Remember, you will certainly be compensated by your charter agent/owner for the lost sailing days, provided you take a few simple steps to ensure that your claim will be met.
Contact your charter company immediately, preferably in writing, if it is at all possible, e.g. by fax or e-mail, and inform them of what has happened and that you will contact them again. Give them a telephone or fax number where you can be contacted.
Never leave the vessel unattended or out of sight – Vangelis would love you to give him an excuse or “cover story” for not having come back to the boat when promised.
Be understanding of Vangelis’s problems – he will do his best if you are polite and patient. Tip his assistant – that will work wonders.
When all is well again and the boat is repaired – contact your agent again, by fax or e-mail preferably, tell him that all is well and tell him that a formal claim for compensation for loss of holiday will be forthcoming.
When you finally return home make the formal claim, in writing, detailing the minutes details of the saga as it unfolded – what happened, the actions you took, the reactions of the local agent and his employed contacts.
Make sure you have all the paperwork involved, especially the contract documents- do not leave them on the boat! A sensible thing to have done would have been to look back in the Ship’s Log Book (if there is any), to see if previous charterers had run into similar problems.
If an accident was part of the cause of the problem make sure that other people who may have been involved are brought into the act, and statements are taken for witnesses.
We can not really advise you as to whether, or not, you will accept any offered compensation – whether it be cash or substitute holidays – that choice is yours. Only you know how you and your crew felt about the happenings, whether you made the best of a bad job at the time, whether everyone did their best to mitigate your losses and disappointments, and whether the offered compensation is adequate.
Whether you accept cash or a replacement holiday will probably depend on how much holiday time you and your crew have left.
Alexander M. Vournas
The foregoing are our feelings and suggestions but we would like to hear from you if you agree or disagree. We have opened a blog on our website (http://www.almiyachts.com/support/blogs.html)
so please let us have your views. Your opinions matter.
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