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Thinking of setting up and running your own holiday home? Here's how it was for us.

I expect many of our readers would love to run their own holiday home in Cornwall, and maybe some are working towards this goal. Here’s a little taste of how it was for us. We were very lucky to be able to buy our apartment using an inheritance and our own savings in December 2015. It was already run as a holiday let so was all set up for this, but had not been upgraded for a good few years and ma...[More]

Should I haggle over the price of my holiday?

A popular conception is that holiday accommodation is overpriced and that it's worth haggling to get a hefty discount. While it is possible to bag a bargain in the current market (and who could blame anyone for trying), this makes it harder and harder for owners to provide a good service and still make a decent profit for their efforts. Of course, you get what you pay for, and that is a valid choi...[More]