Saturday, November 15, 2008

Sunspot Houdini Websites are Like Magic


Our current website design for www.SunspotResorts.com is about a year old. Built by our great programming staff of Salman and Ozair with photograph help from Jonathan and Joseph. Oh and I do a little of the text.

Guests compliment us all the time because the site is chock full of information about our destinations as well as offering deep information on every property we rent.

But we wanted more. So the staff have invented some new code that allows us to create a custom website for a great many of the individual properties we manage. This nifty system was code named "Houdini" because, well it kind of works like magic.

By drawing all its data including images, videos and floor plans from our giant database repository we know that all the data on every site is exactly the same as on our primary website. http://www.sunspotresorts.com/.

Houdini's make it easy for owners and return guests to go directly to everything they want to know about one home without wading through the others. Currently we have one main format with variable colors (the programmers call them skins) but we will be developing 10 templates each with 10 skins giving us 100 different formats to spread among the properties.

Programming is important of course but let's not overlook the careful and concise photographer that our staff does. Really no other vacation rental management can match it.

Here is a list of Houdini website to west your whistle:

http://www.allredescape.com/
http://www.atfishlake.com/
http://www.bearmountain.ws/
http://www.bradleyretreat.com/
http://www.caseinlet.com/
http://www.chelanmanor.com/
http://www.cottageintown.com/
http://www.dukesplace.us/
http://www.echolodge.us/
http://www.hitchinpost.ws/
http://www.holmesharbour.com/
http://www.kauaifiveoh.com/
http://www.lagosara.com/
http://www.lotushale.com/
http://www.melecondo.com/
http://www.oboesuite.com/
http://www.ohanacondo.com/
http://www.pitchandchip.com/
http://www.poipuplace.com/
http://www.poipusecret.com/
http://www.riversbend.ws/
http://www.seattleatthelake.com/
http://www.sledhillllodge.com/
http://www.snowcapcondo.com/
http://www.sunshinehouse.ws/
http://www.the-eagle-nest.com/
http://www.totemhouse.info/
http://www.vakachess.com/
http://www.asuite.ws/
http://www.weekendhideout.com/


If you would like to stay in one of these babies, call our friend vacation guides at 888-628-8989.

And if you would like your home to be marketed with this kind of quality and attention to detail give me a call personally at extension 902.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Lotus Hale Hawaii Villa vs. Poipu Grant Hyatt Hotel


The Grand Hyatt at Poipu Kauai Hawaii is a real gem. If you want beauty and pampering this is your place - provided you want a small room, high prices, less privacy and a hike to everything you might want to do.

For just about $400 per night you get one of the 602 motel 6 size rooms. Better appointed of course but you will be 200 yards from the lobby, 200 yards from your car and 200 yards from the beach.

Oh and about that beach, its not Poipu Beach but Shipwreck beach. A nice place but too dangerous to swim most times of the year. You'll have the pleasure of paying top dollar for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the intrusion of the very pleasant housekeepers.

Or for that same $400 per night you can stay in the Lotus Hale - a true Hawaii villa two blocks west. You are closer to Poipu Beach and inside the Poipu Kai Resort complete with pools, hot tubs, tennis and onsite restaurant. http://www.lotushale.com/.

You get privacy and a huge home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, huge private lanai, gourmet kitchen, plasma TV. Plus your car is just outside the door. Better yet for that same $400 dollars you can bring 7 of your friends and family and spend time in the huge living room enjoying each other's company.

Lotus Hale is just one of the many discrete vacation rental homes and condo's available from Tradewind Vacation Rentals at http://www.tradewindvacationrentals.com/. A local company that has a national reach due to its membership in the national Sunspot Vacation Rentals Network. http://www.sunspotresorts.com/.

Sunspots ia building the first global network for vacation rental managers in order to establish quality standards, instant booking and first-rate owner services.Tradewind provides pristine cleaning, quick maintenance if you need it and first-rate guest and owner services.