What about starting our own similar booking website Grand Harbour View?
It seems to be even worse in the US if I read your story.
Do you know any service that offers the same extra net service?
The only solution I see is start our own booking service for just ourselves.
Smart people might simply use Google maps to find hosting, these are my favorite guests.
But I would like to find an easy alternative for the automatic answering/templates.
Any suggestions?
Right Penelope, but after so many years there still isn't anyone that is looking into this.
So what would you consider a reasonable alternative for the service of Booking.com?
I already stopped using Airbnb and Hostelworld for more or less the same reason.
My guests have to agree on a special concept, including the fact that there's no reception when they arrive and still, if they never answered any of these questions and arrive at a closed door, Bookings.com provides them with another host and leaving me paying the costs and repeated discussion in order to avoid these costs
Thanks for the idea Dina, but I found out both of these big organisations have a kind of monopoly and are being controlled by the biggest holders of their assets, which is the same institutions that are behind the hidden agenda that is being pushed right now.
I found a better way Hans, I put that if the guest cancels later than 3 days before arrival, he or she will lose the whole amount.
So in this case I simply ask them to cancel and me nor Booking.com will lose any money but the guest cannot leave any review anymore.
Yes Cambalala, both ways. They offered this solution themselves.
What about starting our own similar booking website Grand Harbour View?
It seems to be even worse in the US if I read your story.
Do you know any service that offers the same extra net service?
The only solution I see is start our own booking service for just ourselves.
Smart people might simply use Google maps to find hosting, these are my favorite guests.
But I would like to find an easy alternative for the automatic answering/templates.
Any suggestions?
Right Penelope, but after so many years there still isn't anyone that is looking into this.
So what would you consider a reasonable alternative for the service of Booking.com?
I already stopped using Airbnb and Hostelworld for more or less the same reason.
That's the spirit, Penelope!
But what could be a reasonable alternative?
My guests have to agree on a special concept, including the fact that there's no reception when they arrive and still, if they never answered any of these questions and arrive at a closed door, Bookings.com provides them with another host and leaving me paying the costs and repeated discussion in order to avoid these costs
Thanks for the idea Dina, but I found out both of these big organisations have a kind of monopoly and are being controlled by the biggest holders of their assets, which is the same institutions that are behind the hidden agenda that is being pushed right now.
Thanks for your contribution.
I found a better way Hans, I put that if the guest cancels later than 3 days before arrival, he or she will lose the whole amount.
So in this case I simply ask them to cancel and me nor Booking.com will lose any money but the guest cannot leave any review anymore.
Good luck, greetings Frank