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Hotels, Villas & Apartments in Pollensa & Cala San Vicente Discuss hotels, aparthotels, private villas, apartments and any other type of accommodation in the Pollensa area including Cala San Vicente. Do add reviews and comments for specific hotels and apartments. Readers find these very useful. However this forum is not a place for advertisements. Check out the 'Advertise' page on the main web site.

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I have been following this thread for a while and would agree that there is much confusion about pricing at the moment and there has been much discounting / loading of prices by some companies for some time. This year is the first time we have turned away from VP and, to be honest, we were put off by their tactics at the end of last year when we were bombarded with all sorts of offers IF we booked with them. This led us to doubt not only their but the general stability of "third party" booking outlets and the pressure they were exerting on the supplier, i.e. the owners. Not the least being that VP (probably not alone) now require payment considerably more in advance than they ever did and this is, I understand, not being passed to the owners until much later. We went direct to an owner, negotiated an agreed price for a long stay and both of us are happy. We paid a deposit and handed the balance to the owner on arrival, after we had been shown the apartment and were happy. I am sure that kind of service is not restricted to this one location or one owner and we will look to that kind of deal in the future.
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I have used the web site "Villarenters" recently to book accomodation. I like the way you can pay by debit/credit card. Admittedly it was for property in Portugal but I didnt notice any companies advertising.
Anyone used Villarenters for Pollensa bookings?
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I don't think there are many properties for Pollensa but quite a few for mainland Spain and and Portugal. There are many companies advertising on this site too.
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There are a number of privately owned properties on the vacationrentalpeople.com site.
Also of course this pp site offers many privately owned properties to rent. As been said before the advantage of dealing directly with the owner is that prices are often much lower and it gives the opportunity of building a good working relationship between the two parties which can only be good for both sides.
Shame owners direct have decided to take the route it has and changed its attitude - often happens when a company grows. It now needs to change its name too as owners direct is somewhat misleading.
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Reposted to the correct thread! Sorry!!
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Last edited by favie; 12-04-2011 at 15:13. Reason: I MEANT TO POST THIS ON KIEMOSAN'S THREAD!!!
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