Guests often have high expectations for luxury vacation rentals and prestige villa rentals. Owners of top notch vacation properties must think in terms of offering guests some of the same amenities, creature comforts, and services that their discerning guests are used to receiving at five star hotels.

Walk through your property as if it were a hotel. What would a luxury hotel suite offer that you don't? What can you offer in a home that a hotel cannot?

The following list can help you prepare your property for rental to the kind of guests your luxury villa advertising will attract:

Basic Needs: Consider having travel adapters (for every country) available for your guests, in addition to blow dryers, extra toothbrushes, charming guest soaps, extra toilet paper, paper towels, travel-size products, and the like. Make sure that you have adequate linens available for everyone staying, and make certain those linens are soft and fluffy. Offer separate extra-large beach and pool towels, too.

More Basic Comfort Needs: The best hotels provide their guests with ways to adjust the room temperature, provide in-unit CD players and alarm clocks, an easy way to prepare a cup of coffee or tea and always extra pillows and blankets in the room if desired. Don't forget extra fans and heaters hidden away in the closet, just in case an automatic system goes down or a guest prefers fans and heaters.

Bathrooms: In the bathrooms, have you provided adequate storage and/or a table where they can leave their toiletry kits? Have you provided no-slip, rubberized bathtub covers so your clients don't slip and fall getting out of the tub? What about small bath rugs so they can dry off without making the bathroom floor slippery?

In the bedrooms and other public areas, have you provided adequate lighting for reading, and a desk with a comfortable adjustable chair near an outlet for those who want to compute? What about a selection of various pillows because not everyone likes the same kind of head pillow.

Home Office: Is your internet speed and service of a good enough quality for a business person with a lot of work to do? Have you installed wireless internet access so that your visitors can work from any part of your property? Have you installed a phone system which allows your clients to make free local or even long distance calls; if you don't wish to allow long distance, have you made card purchase available through the housekeeper or concierge? Consider suggesting or offering them telephone cards so they are not left without long distance phone access. Make sure your printer, fax, copy machine, scanner and other equipment is easy to use and supplies are at hand for your guests.

For a truly upscale property, offer a computer loaded with all the software they could ever need (just in case they forget their laptop computer at home).
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