{"id":8024,"date":"2023-09-22T10:21:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breezyoakvillas.com\/breezy_oak_villas\/?p=8024"},"modified":"2024-08-29T06:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T12:09:41","slug":"optional-items-extra-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breezyoakvillas.com\/breezy_oak_villas\/optional-items-extra-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Optional Items and Extra Charges at Breezy Oak Villas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rob, why do you make things optional and charge extra for them? We often see them included for free at vacation rentals!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for your question. I&#8217;m happy to share with you details why we charge for optional items as we do.<\/p>\n<h3>In a business, nothing is ever free.<\/h3>\n<p><em>When one runs a business, just like in one&#8217;s personal life, everything you provide costs something&#8230; in money, time or both.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That means that somehow, everything has to be paid for, and the costs of providing anything to customers must be covered. If a vacation rental provides an amenity, and calls it <em><strong>&#8216;free&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>, really that is simply a marketing choice on the part of the owner\/manager. Some of the money being charged for the nightly rental rate has to go to pay for that <em>&#8216;free&#8217;<\/em> item. This means that <strong>every guest pays for it<\/strong>, whether they want to or not, and <strong>whether <em>they use it or not<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been comfortable with being forced to pay for something that I don&#8217;t use or gain any benefit from. Knowing as I do how business expenses work, and that nothing can be provided at no cost to the business owner, I understand that every<em> free<\/em> thing a customer receives <strong>must be paid for<\/strong>, and the cost of providing it along with its overhead (and likely mark-up too) must be built into the regular charges of a business.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I would rather just pay less and receive a better value for my purchase, than pay more and in effect, <strong>pay extra<\/strong> for other customers to make use of that <em>&#8216;free&#8217;<\/em> item that I&#8217;m not. As a customer, I don&#8217;t like this practice, so doing this to our guests is not something that I&#8217;m comfortable with.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of things that some of our guests would like to have at our vacation rentals but not all will need or use; like baby items, seasonal pool heating, or the BBQ&#8230; rather than build their cost into the nightly rate, we charge separately for them, and therefor keep the regular nightly charge for <strong>all<\/strong> guests <strong>as low as we can<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re not bringing a baby with you to our villa, you don&#8217;t have to pay for having a high-chair there. It just makes sense.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>We do provide &#8216;no-charge&#8217; extras to our guests.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I realize I just said that nothing is ever provided to a guest for free, and that&#8217;s true. So rather than referring to something provided to all guests as <em>&#8216;free&#8217;<\/em>, for the purpose of this discussion, let&#8217;s refer to them instead as <em><strong>extras<\/strong><\/em>. When evaluating the value that we provide, we hope our guests keep in mind that instead of providing a bunch of <em>&#8216;free&#8217;<\/em> items that <strong>a lot of guests will never use<\/strong>, we choose instead to provide a set of extras to all of our guests, which they almost all can make use of. And these are things which the vast majority of Orlando area vacation rentals don&#8217;t provide for their guests! We&#8217;re happy to do this (and yes, the cost of this <em>is<\/em> built into our nightly rental rate, we can&#8217;t escape that) because almost every single one of our guests can and do directly benefit from them, and it helps us provide better value, and a better experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/breezyoakvillas.com\/advantages\/the-extras\/\">So take a look here at the extras that we do provide which most area vacation rentals don&#8217;t.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about two of the most common optional items we provide here; <a href=\"https:\/\/breezyoakvillas.com\/breezy_oak_villas\/about-optional-pool-heating\/\">Optional Pool Heating<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/breezyoakvillas.com\/breezy_oak_villas\/bbq-rental\/\">BBQ Rentals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>As always, thanks for staying with us! Your patronage is appreciated!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob, why do you make things optional and charge extra for them? 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