Thread: Villa rental website

Hi guys,

I'm in need of feedback.

Together with some partners I built a rental website. The market in this niche is very fragmented but the websites ranking for villas in Bali are providing a poor user experience.

Do you feel our website is on the right path to fix this? The address is: vilondo.com

What's missing or in need of improvement from your point of view?


Thanks

Nice job

My input; the chatting is clever and is the first time I see it integrated the way you have done. Nicolas with picture asking me whether this was my first visit to Bali gives it a personal touch. However, I gave up after 10 minutes of waiting. Nicolas asks a casual question whether this is my first to Bali. I reply that I am looking for a villa this December.

If you want to add chatting, and you fire of first question, you need to reply when visitor reply with a question. If you don't bother replying, especially after initiating the conversation yourself, it is better not to add this gimmick.

Otherwise, after my brief visit, nice website comparing with others

Thanks a lot CanonMan and Balibule,

@balibule I'm sorry I didn't responded to your chat. I thought the feature was off while I was away for a moment. I just started using the chat today as it was previously my other partners taking charge of that. I can confirm its a real thing, with real people behind. :) If your trip is real, you can send me your villa preferences for December to nicolas (at) vilondo.com and i'll reply to you with our best options.


@CanonMan Thank for that comment, you're right about the rates: there's no mention of the duration on the home page and near the rates table. There's a subtle mention one on the search result and on the villa page, but it's very small.I'll make it easier to see. I'd love to make a human friendly TOS too. Law stuff is so counter intuitive.

We have a collection system to get virtually every point of interest in bali. It takes time, but I believe there's great value in there. Didn't thought about monetizing that part tho; it's a great idea :)


I appreciate your replies very much. I hope to make the site amazingly useful.

For the advertisers I'd show them the villas you have online and they can add their little hotlinked advertisement. Would be a great interactive element for the site in general. No limit to the ways you could branch that off into additional revenue streams.

That might be so from a commercial point of view.Personally i log off if all kind of unwanted advertisements start flashing and are slowing down the site.

And after checking the site:
I do not think it is a good idea to list villas in Sukawati under Ubud and in Canggu under Seminyak.(just two examples)
Give adequate info about where things are.Most people renting a villa have no idea of the distances or actual place when seeing a map with a blue dot.
The description of the villas should be more factual and less pompous,and include specific whereabouts.

@hermit yes, locations are a problem right now. When data-entry was made there was a lack of guidelines for the staff and we'll have to cleanup all our information to get more consistency. Most descriptions are mere copies from the owner website, so we want to make our own too.

We also thought about giving relative distance to the nearest beach, atm, restaurant and so forth. Your mention confirms me that we should put it up on the priorities list.


Love your feedback guys.

what crazy prices , site for fools