With lots of rooms available how can you ensure yours stands out from the crowd and you get it booked? These 5 tips will help you rent your room out during the Edinburgh Festivals.
1. A picture is worth a thousand words
2. Who are you
Provide a little bit of information about who you are. Again guests want to know who they will be sharing with for the duration of their stay. Keep it simple, you don’t need to add your life story, but maybe you can indicate what type of festival activities you are interested in or whether you’ll be at work during the day. This will help the guest decide whether the room might work for them.
3. Price realistically
Renting your room out over the summer can be a good way to generate extra cash. But you should think carefully about how to price your accommodation. There is a lot of demand for places to stay but there is also a healthy amount of competition between hosts. Things to consider when pricing your room are location, quality of room and general furnishings and the amenities provided with the accommodation. Take a look at what’s currently available; this can be a good guide to the price you should be charging.
4. The devil’s in the detail
Write a clear and full description of the room you have available. The more information you can provide, the more a potential guest is able to decide whether the room is going to work with them. Guests would rather know about a limitation up front than to find surprises when they arrive. But be positive, remember to explain all of the good points about your property!
5. Keep up to date
It’s important to keep your room information up to date – especially the availability. Once a guest has chosen your room they will want to make a booking straight away. They need to be confident that the availability information you are displaying is accurate. You don’t want to be double booked! Updating your information is a straight forward task – just log in to your control panel, go to rooms and click “set room availability”.
With these tips your chances of getting your room rented out this festival will increase significantly. Remember to add your room to EdinburghFestivalRooms.com
Booking online
Uniquely, Edinburgh Festival Rooms lets you make a reservation online, allowing you to secure the room you want straight away.
Here’s our simple guide to booking the room you want.
Select you dates
Have a good idea of when you want to stay. Edinburgh Festival Rooms has up to date availability of rooms so your search will return results for your desired stay. The search results you get will only include rooms available for the dates chosen – you don’t have to filter through listings that aren’t going to work for you.
Review the available rooms
You can view each rooms details – this includes an overview of the accommodation provided by the host, photographs of the advertised festival room and the availability. You can also get an idea of where in Edinburgh the advertised room is by viewing the map.
Book it!
Once you have chosen your room for the festival, and it meets your criteria including dates and price, you can book the room. Just click on the Book Now button and you will be taken to the payment page. Here you can review the details of your booking and enter your contact information and payment details. You can choose to book your festival room by using either paypal or credit card. Click submit and your room will be reserved immediately. Your host will get an email with your reservation details and contact details.
So three simple steps to getting your accommodation sorted for this years Edinburgh Festival using Edinburgh Festival Rooms.