PureHolidayHomes.com have offered readers of holiday home rental an exclusive offer for new registrations.

PureHolidayHomes.com is certainly one of the most impressive new entrants to the holiday rental by owner market. They are getting loads of exposure and attention at the moment and have a very nice looking and easy to use website for both holiday makers and holiday home owners. After seeing their owner verification scheme featured on the BBC recently, we decided it was time to take a closer look. The upshot of which was a great new offer for readers of Holiday-Home-Rental.co.uk who register to advertise their properties at PureHolidayHomes.

This is a double deal….. Here’s the two extra benefits you get thanks to this offer.

• 15 months for the price of 12. Get three months free when you sign up for a year (that’s on top of the 35% saving for a 12 month sign up compared with the 3 month price).
• You can also enjoy a 3 week free featured listing (this gets you higher up in search results).

The impressive standard features offered to all holiday home owners listing their properties with Pure Holiday Homes are :

• A full page advert.
• An availability calendar.
• Add up to 20 photos of your property.
• Free access to the owners collection – a marketplace where you can trade weeks with other holiday home owners for your own holidays.
• A video facility.
• Add late deal and early booking discounts and get extra awareness.
• A pdf brochure.

Here’s how to register as a holiday home advertiser at PureHolidayHomes.com and claim your extras -

1) Click Here to sign up online.

2) Email affiliates@pureholidayhomes.com quoting “Holiday-Home-Rental.co.uk” and your extra 3 months and 3 weeks featured listing will be activated.

Just a quick one to alert you to a prize draw that Expedia is running in which they are giving away a £4000 voucher to spend at their site to two lucky winners. It’s an online game – free to enter – in which you have to be a bit handy at Geography. You have to visit 5 continents and click on the map where you think the famous landmark or monument should be. You get one entry for each one correct. I must confess to not doing too well in any continent other than Europe !

£4000 to spend at Expedia though !. Just think what a holiday home owner could do with that . . . . plenty of flights over to your property, annual insurance policy, car-hire, a holiday somewhere else for a change

Edit : Competiton now closed.

The Daily Mail is promoting a free to enter competition, sponsored by P&O Ferries, with a house in France up for grabs.

Haven’t been able to find out much about the actual property so far other than this from the Daily Mail.

The house has a large open plan sitting room with a log fireplace, two bedrooms and a barn that could easily be converted to further accommodation or even a holiday let. It is in the South of France, beautiful balmy days in Summer and a short drive to the ski slopes in the Winter. Luxury spas and great shopping abound in the local villages and towns.

Thanks to it’s size, character and location, I’m sure this house would make a great rental property, the (very) lucky winner will also get £5000 towards travel and maintenance which would be nice. There is also a cash alternative of £100’000. The number of entrants for a competition with a prize as good as this and advertised in a national newspaper probably runs into millions but you’ve got to be in it to win it. 

More information and entry details from The Daily Mail

As a little bonus for readers of this site we’ve collected all the passwords you need to enter the competition. 

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We’ve just found a 15% discount code for new adverts at Holiday-Rentals.co.uk, recently merged with USA giant HomeAway and already one of the largest and most successful holiday home rental websites out there. One of the main benefits of using HomeAway Holiday-Rentals to let out your holiday home in the current financial climate is that they are part of a huge family of leading websites around the world. So if the Brits are too hard up to rent out your holiday home you might find you get enquiries from potential renters from The Netherlands, Denmark, USA, Finland etc

More details and offer code.

Who do you use to advertise your holiday rental property? Please leave a comment to share your experiences with holiday rentals or any other lettings by owner website / directory.

The Search for Annual Travel Insurance for long stay holidays

When you have a holiday home overseas it’s great to be able to take trips out there throughout the year. If you do travel regularly one thing that can keep the costs down is getting an annual travel insurance policy.

The thing is, when I have looked for a cheap annual insurance policy online it is always with a restriction on how long you can travel for. I have just bought a fresh annual insurance policy and the most appropriate deal I found was at Direct Travel Insurance. The thing I liked about this site was that you can choose an annual policy with 30, 45 or 62 days trip duration limit.

It’s only for UK residents though so it’s no good if you have made the full move abroad permanently.

To give you an idea of the cost if you are looking for a policy that will cover you for a couple of months, when I looked through it was coming up with a good annual policy valid for trips upto 62 days at a time for under £65 for an individual /£95 for a couple. This included scheduled airline failure, £10mill medical expenses, and all the usual you expect in a fully comprehensive policy.

If you have any tips for the best travel insurance annual policies for holiday home owners please leave a comment and let us know.

Guest post from Win a Holiday blog.
At our blog we do one thing, list online entry competitions with flights or holidays as prizes. It might be ideal for people with a holiday home as you can get a free holiday to somewhere completely different or maybe win flights to the destination where your villa / apartment is located. Below is an example of what we publish. . . .

Prize:
In this free to enter competition you can win a £1000 voucher to spend on a Thomson holiday.

How to Enter:

Go to the Win a Thomson holiday page on the Thomson website and enter your contact details. You will be registering to receive email updates from Thomson.

Once you have registered on the site you will automatically be entered into the prize draw. No purchase is necessary.

Closing Date:

There is one prize draw for the £1000 holiday voucher every month. The winner will be selected at random by computer on the last working day of each month.