We are going to London today to attend and present at a Landlord’s exhibition at Olympia.
Having successfully established our web-site in Edinburgh, we now have facilities to advertise London self-catering property. We’ve done lots of research and discovered that it is very difficult to find self-catering accommodation in London. Several guests in Edinburgh had mentioned how difficult it was in London, compared to Edinburgh, Paris Rome and other major cities – which we were quite surprised about.
I took my daughter and some friends to London last year and wanted a holiday let apartment. I discovered exactly what people meant. There were no dedicated web-sites. The only advertising sites were global sites – which are really geared up to provide information about Villas for beach type holidays on the Mediterranean or Caribbean. I had to send out lots of messages – most of which resulted in no reply. I just couldn’t search on availability, see details and prices and book with any confidence.
This was actually an even worse service than visitors to Edinburgh had before we set up. Hence us making London our latest destination.
You are absolutely right – we have found excellent self-catering in Nice, Paris, Kracow, Barcelona and Budapest no problem at all.
But we have really struggled with London, although we have stayed in three self-catering outfits successfully. But it was a real battle finding them. London is just not organised as other European capitals, which is surprising.