Holiday Villa Dos and Don'ts

In a popular tourist destination, pool villas are in high demand. But it is not sufficient basically to obtain or develop a house and then join a rental program.

The success of any villa, ensuring excellent reviews and repeat clientele, is dependent not only on advertising and management, but on the style of the property itself. And making a villa that is suitable both to be lived in by the owner and also rented out when they are not there can be a tricky business.

It entails planning from the design stage onwards, balancing the owner\'s lengthy term wants with those of the high end traveler staying only a few nights, and creating a space that is both personal to the owner and appealing to the tourist market. A lot of the requirements are unobtrusive and technical although others mean that owners may perhaps have to accommodate design features that they may not previously have thought of.

Below, we compile some dos and don\'ts for each location of the villa, as a valuable checklist to bring when consulting your architect or management organization.

Grounds and gardens

• DO construct a high perimeter wall around the property: privacy and security are necessary for most villa guests. Plant cover can be used to make a additional attractive boundary. Walls also support to keep animal intruders such as snakes and stray dogs out of the villa grounds.
  
• DO maintain the garden a low maintenance space. Landscape gardeners can advise on the kind of plants that will supply flowers and foliage with minimal care.
  
• DO provide lots of covered outdoor spaces, such as salas (gazebos), terraces and outdoor dining areas as guests will invest most of their time outside.
  
• DO install a swimming pool. This is an absolute should for the holiday marketplace. Experience shows that villas with no pool are just about by no means rented out.
  
• Don't make a deep swimming pool. Deep pools are technically additional difficult and a lot more likely to incur challenges with leakage and so on. A depth of 1 - 1.2 metres is sufficient to permit swimming but is also shallow sufficient to accommodate play.
  
• DO take into consideration a children\'s pool with a proper barrier to the deeper location.
  
• DO provide sufficient outdoor lighting for evening use of the pool and garden, as well as for safety reasons.
  
• DO consider offering a barbecue for guests\' use.
  
• DO supply covered parking, as both the sun and rain in Krabi can damage vehicles.

Decor

• DO stick to a natural, neutral palette, with splashes of rich colour. Pastel shades are a no-no for this sort of tropical villa.
  
• Do not clutter the space: in addition to being less difficult to maintain, there is not so a lot for guests to break or damage.
  
• DO factor lockable owner storage areas into the home strategy, so that you have somewhere to maintain personal belongings when you are not there.

Technical

• DO install a transformer, which is necessary for secure and stable electrical supply. You could possibly not run all air conditioning units at the same time, along with various laptops and other electrical equipment, but guests will.
  
• DO construct a \"technical room\", to house all electrical controls, water pumps, pool equipment etc. so that they are simply accessible in case of difficulties. This can also function as a storage room for garden tools and so on. It should really be separate from the rest of house and lockable so that kids can not access it.
  
• Don't install dimmer switches in any room: they don't work with energy saving bulbs. You could then wish to look at having alternative soft lighting - lamps etc. - in some rooms.
  
• DO provide a master key or key card system: with so many gates and doors on a single property, it can be challenging for guests to keep track, and confusing to acquire the correct one if they return in the dark.
  
• DO install high speed wireless net access throughout the property this is now as necessary as air conditioning for the international traveler.
  
• DO also supply a network LAN cable in addition to a Wi-Fi network as this can occasionally malfunction.

Special wants

• DO consider the requirements of younger guests. Young children may well call for additional security in the kitchen and around the pool area, as well as high chairs and cots, which must be out there on request.
  
• DO make the property wheelchair accessible: keep away from interior actions (also easier for cleaning and maintenance) give wider corridors and doorways and at least one entrance must be floor level or ramped.
  
• DO offer you a bench in a shallow region of the pool for both wheelchair users and older guests to sit on.

Kitchen

• DO offer a coffee machine, microwave and water dispenser in addition to the usual stove, fridge and sink: these are the number one visitor requirements.
  
• DO think about offering picnic equipment.
  
• DO provide plastic glasses, plates and cutlery, both for kids and for use around the pool.
  
• Do not think it is crucial to air condition the kitchen or living room areas: if they are developed with high ceiling and huge windows, natural ventilation may possibly be sufficient - and additional pleasant.

Bedrooms

• DO give consideration to supplying a mixture of bedding: both doubles and singles, or even bunk beds if space permits.
  
• DO look at adding a sofa bed to accommodate youngsters or additional guests.
  
• DO offer a personal safe in each bedroom, and invest in a far more reliable expensive 1, that is huge enough to fit a laptop and ideally with an interior power socket for charging.
  
• DO supply an iPod dock and DVD player.
  
• DO make sure flashlights are in all bedside drawers in case of power outage.
  
• DO present additional power sockets in bedrooms for charging electrical equipment.

Guest communication

• DO label remote controls and look at having easy written instructions for operating different equipment.
  
• DO give consideration to adding notes about energy saving and environmental protection regarding towel and linen adjustments.
  
• DO prepare a \"house book\", not only with practical information about the property, but personal recommendations for dining and excursions: this is a great way to welcome your guests.