Sequim: Vacation Rental Sequim WA Reviews 2012



Dear Sequim Vacation blog visitors, 
Those last three weeks this summer 2012 have been really special in Sequim not only because of a wonderful Indian summer with lots of blue skies, ripe sweet berries, bike rides on the Discovery Trail and much more, but also because of all the nice new friends we made as hosts of our 'Bell Hill View Vacation Rental', your home away from home.

September proved again to be lovely in Sequim. Aah the views! October mostly follows suit with sunny days but colder nights preparing us for winter. Hope Julie from NM who plans to stay at our Sequim rental for a vacation this October will be as happy as our 2012 guests have been:

May 2012

Dear Heidi & Keoki,
Thank you very much for trusting us with your beautiful place, We felt very comfortable and most of all, welcomed!

Your place is spotless. I haven't seen anything close to this. Everything you think of is here ready for our use. Thank you making it easy. Thanks for the bike. My son enjoyed the ride a lot...

When you have the time, please, visit us in Manila. Many thanks, Rebecca, Manila

June 2012

Thanks so much, Heidi & Keoki. You have created a wonderful haven here: a great place to do both, work and rekax. Thanks for all your generosity and gracious hospitality. I' m already missing being here. 

Love Deb & Bob, Iowa

July/August 2012

Dear Heidi & Keoki,
We really appreciate all the things you did to make us feel at home here in Sequim - from the special blanket for the couch, to a new HDTV + DVR, for fresh raspberries, orchids & newspapers, gas barbie and two special dinners.

This was a wonderful place to use as a base to explore Sequim, the Olympic Peninsula and the surrounding areas. Thanks for your hospitality!

Cathy & Sue, O'Fallon, MO

September 2012

Hi Heidi & Keoki,
Washington always reminds me of the Munich area. Maybe that's why I enjoy Washington so much.

We had the nicest stay in your lovely apartment. Thank you so much for renting to us at such short notice. You and Keoki are wonderful hosts. We enjoyed getting to know both of you. I especially enjoyed our blueberry picking time!
When you start booking for next summer, please keep us in mind. We'd love to come back.

Take care, Gabriele and Jon, Rockport TX


New event in Sequim: Sequim Balloon Festival in September

BLOG COMMENT - Car Hire - Pardon?

Who truly understands car hire except those who are in the business of hiring out cars? On one side you have the 'premium' companies such as Avis and Hertz and then, well, everyone else! Unlike airlines the car hire companies offer the same directly comparable means of transport but at different prices. Why? How? After many years in the TMC business I still haven't a clue. Well not really! I expect the bigger companies are global and have a bigger inventory but should they cost so much? OK, so they can (or could) afford to pay middle men incentives to promote them. And they could always leverage their coverage and reputation but even so the price gap is simply too high. So what are they doing about it? I guess they are doing what everyone else is doing i.e. reducing their overheads and becoming more competitive. Or are they? Who knows? Car Hire has started to shift away from travel procurement anyway. Good job too if everyone else understands as little as me.

BLOG COMMENT - Branson's Bile

Submitted by Mike Platt on Thu, 2012-09-13 16:59. It is regretable that Richard Branson seems to have thrown all his toys out of the cupboard over the loss of his West Coast rail contract. I know he can be petulant but this is taking it to extremes. To my mind the process went that the government went out to tender, people bid, bids were evaluated and the successful candidates notified. Quite stanard and quite reasonable. Now I know the government ties itself up in rules and regulations which are further exacerbated by European legislation and this is what I presume Mr Branson is trying to manipulate. I personally have been through all this during the MOD travel tender and, although they thought about it, none of the other contenders considered they would gain in the long or short term by formally objecting to the process. For once I am four square behind the government on this. The fact that the man is Richard Branson should not be enough to drive anyone into a U-turn on such a decision based on price and service. If the successful bidder fails? Well then a review might be necessary and MR B will have his chance again.

BLOG COMMENT- Off the Rails

Selling rail tickets is a real pain....if you are a TMC. First there is the illusion that rail is cheap and second, the illusion that it is easy! I swear it would be easier to accurately predict the weather than consistantly find low prices in peak periods! Poor old TMCs have to provide this service if they wish to offer a full 'one stop shop' package of products. There is no point in saying you will provide lucrative air products and then suggest they do what they like with rail. It just does not fit and invites segmentation of all services. Meanwhile their online rail booking specialist 'partners' sit like vultures on the sidelines ready to zoom in after the kill. These operators such as Trainline and Evolvi in Europe have set up their services to support direct sell at a price. TMCs can only sell at that price plus some. Each tries to negotiate what that 'plus' will be and uses their current 'one stop' offering as a compelling bargaining chip. And the traveler? I can here him now."What,you expect me to pay these people a fee for a RAIL ticket? I can get what I need at the station". They have a point, they can get it at the station if they have the time/inclination to search for it. Rail commision used to pay for a lot of this but that too is diminishing. Oh what joy is net pricing. Then you have the American buyer with their fascination for transaction fees. In the USA most travel is by air but when they buy in Europe they seem to get amnesia over the subject. The travel type percentages are radically different here but they really do not recognise this as an issue. It is. Transaction fees work in the USA. In Europe they don't. The European market is crawling with these fees but they do not really work and TMCs find all sorts of ingenious ways to get round them. Everything from declaring rail bookings as 'free' but hiking air rates to compensate or perhaps outsourcing rail to an online self book service (at higher rates)and charge a small ticketing fee. Somebody really has to do the Maths here and either pay up centrally or give up on your TMC all inclusive service.

BLOG COMMENT - TMC (Agents).

The vast majority of TMCs (even the larger ones) still rely heavily on supplier income despite what they may say. Could you survive and thrive on what you pay them? I don't think so. There are ways and means now to get the definition of these 'incentives' changed so they are not included in any corporate deal. Agents have needed to do this in order to fund central and associated costs plus earn sufficient ROI.
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