As owners, we are being told endlessly that reviews by guests are more and more essential to our success. We do explain to past guests how to leave reviews and leave it up to them to be honest in their review of their stay with us, good and bad (thankfully mainly good!).

But suddenly we have realised that there is another online area where we are being mentioned, through no action of ours – and therefore all the more warming when they are complimentary: blogs. In the last week, our accommodation has been spontaneously mentioned on 2 blogs, one by a guest while actually staying in one of our apartments:

‘insanely impressive’: http://nutztoyou.blogspot.com/2011/05/whew.html

and one written by a guest who came 2 years ago:

‘I don’t think I have so far had a better holiday’:

http://floor-to-ceiling-books.blogspot.com/2011/05/10-best-reading-holidays.html

One of these has been referred to in another blog: the hugely respected and experienced ‘cottage blogger’

http://cottageblogger.com/

Apart from the occasional press release, we are not much good at blowing our own trumpets – we love what we do and the best reward is to see our guests enjoying their holiday and looking forward to returning to their accommodation at the end of the day. But we couldn’t resist sharing the warm feeling that these mentions gave us. Thank you bloggers!

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