Short Term Housing has composed a list of some of the coolest caves in the world! Have fun exploring guys!

Glacial Cave

• Alaska

Hidden near Juneau the Glacial Caves of Alaska are simply stunning. They provide an incredible experience for photographers, nature lovers, and many other travelers!

Illuminated Caves

-Okinawa, Japan

Magically lit blue water of this incredibly cool cave will fascinate and charm divers, children, nature enthusiasts, photographers, and more.

Glow Worm Cave

• New Zealand

Absolutely enchanting- this cave is lit with quarter-inch long bioluminescent glow worms that hang from the cave’s ceiling. Guests can experience this seemingly magical cave by floating through it on a raft.

Devvetashka Cave

• Bulgaria

Looming and lovely- this gorgeous cave is sure to enchant all that are lucky enough to visit it.

Reviews are one of the best ways to gain credibility, trust, and new business. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to get former guests to write reviews for us. Because of this, ShortTermHousing.com has listed a few ways to entice your past guests to write those reviews!

Exceed Their Expectations

If you want your guests to leave a positive review- you must first give them a reason to do so! Don’t just meet their expectations- exceed their expectations!

Incentives

Give your guests an incentive to leave a review. A discount on their next stay (also a great way to encourage repeat business), tickets to a local event, or a gift card to a popular restaurant are all nice incentives.

Forget Me Not’s/ Follow Ups

Don’t let your guests forget who you are! After they’ve left you can send your former guests a simple “forget me not.” with a note requesting a review attached to it. Things such as: fridge magnets with the name of your vacation rental, stickers, pens, etc. all make great “forget me nots” Or you can simply send a follow up email thanking them for their business with a request that they leave a review at the end.

Don’t Discourage Negative Reviews

While no one likes negative reviews- they aren’t necessarily a bad thing. If your rental only gets positive reviews- potential guests might think that the reviews are phony. A few negative reviews thrown into the mix helps your credibility.

How do you get former guests to leave reviews? Comment and let us know!

Merced River

The Merced River can be found in the central part of the U.S. state of California. This lovely river is 145-mile-long. The river’s character changes dramatically once it reaches the foothills and the lowlands, becoming a slow-moving waterway meandering through irrigated fields.

American Falls

The American Falls are one of three waterfalls that together are known as Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada–U.S. border. Also known as “Rainbow Falls” this waterfall is infinitely lovely and attracts thousands of visitors from around the world each year.

Paria Canyon

Dramatic, colorful, scenic, and beautiful- these are jut a few terms that can be used when describing Paria Canyon. The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a 112,500 acres wilderness area located in northern Arizona and southern Utah.

Uluru Waterfalls

Uluru is Australia’s most recognizable natural icon and has become a focal point. Waterfalls cascade down the face of Uluru - formerly known as Ayer’s Rock.

When guests stay in your rental you don’t just want them to have a nice time. You want to give them a great experience. ShortTermHousing.com has listed a few ways to accomplish this goal.

Treat Them Like Guests

Make your guests feel as though they are actually guests as opposed to walking dollar bill signs.

Provide Extra Toiletries

Necessities such as towels, soaps, shampoos, razors, toothpaste and bath tissue. These are all things your guests should be able to find in your rental’s bathroom.

Make Things Easy To Find

When they first arrive, have all their needed towels either out on the bathroom counter, or on their bed or night stand. Leave out some basic breakfast goodies for them to help themselves.

Entertain Them

Provide things like board games, movies, books, and perhaps some information on local attractions.

If you create value for your guests primarily through service or support, you must be responsive and flexible. CorporateStays.com founder Vladimir De Suarez gets that, does that, and lives by that standard. A big part of his success over the past 4 years has revolved around service orientation, always driving to create “elegant solutions” to guest challenges. His team is trained to find them if they exist, and innovate to create solutions if they don’t exist. A great example of how a responsive posture and innovation can work together.

De Suarez’s innovations have been around positioning furnished apartments as venues for corporate travellers rather than the traditional Hotel being their first choice. CorporateStays.com has done incentive based deals, promotions, online competitions, and even used a graffiti artist for interior decoration to attract younger hipper execs, while offering a wide variety of properties to attract the older more traditional crowd. If you look at the companies attitude in the context of strategy, posture and culture, it is similar to that of the Ritz Carlton with their culture being 1) a strategy of support, 2) a responsive posture, and 3) a flexible culture.

Strategy of Support

Vladimir De Suarez founded CorporateStays.com to provide travelers and members of the corporate world with the very best in furnished/service apartments, following a model that helps standardize all his properties so guests always know what to expect. Constantly reminding his team that this is a service based business, he aims to help clients plan their events, get local tips and settle into their new home. CorporateStays.com are not the real estate developers, they don’t design, build or deliver infrastructure. Rather, they match their clients’ needs with furnished properties that are owned and operated by them following strict standards. On one hand, a computer could come really close to doing those very things, but what a computer can’t do is to provide superior knowledge, insight, and strong guest services to assist clients.

Responsive Posture

Although the CorporateStays.com team stays in touch with their corporate clients over time and try to anticipate their needs, they can’t make a move until the client surfaces a need of their own. Unlike charity organisations that pre-position resources to be able to react quickly, hospitality companies can’t spring into action until their clients “green light them”. Don’t confuse having a responsive posture with being passive. The team knows that being responsive is a critical component of their companies service/support attitude. Being actively and purposefully responsive - it works in conjunction with their strategy and corporate culture.

Flexible Culture

CorporateStays.com is constantly aiming to have a culture rooted in elegant flexibility. The difference between that and pure flexibility is in their passion, experience and confidence. Vladimir is passionate about his business and strives to hire people that share this passion for hospitality and elegant service.His team has long-term specialization in the corporate housing industry, this has given them a knowledge base and business connections that allow them to customize solutions for their clients and anticipate and resolve problems to overcome obstacles far better, far more creatively and far more elegantly than competitors with less focus.