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Become part of Chalets Direct... the perfect place to promote your properties for rent! |
Why Chalets Direct?
Talk directly to your prospective clients:
- Chalets Direct is just what it says on the box - we never want to interfere in the relationship between you and your customers, so we provide as many opportunities as possible for them to contact you, direct - email, telephone, and multiple clickthroughs to your website.
Use the Chalets Direct Control Panel to increase your traffic:
- A subscription to Chalets Direct includes a whole range of tools to optimise your business.
- Show availability and pricing, add promotions, unlimited access to our popular bulletin boards where you can see exactly what accommodation people are looking for and reply to their requests.
- Don't have your own website? Then Chalets Direct provides the ideal solution - a web page with all the bells and whistles, which you can easily manage from your own computer.
- Need more traffic to your website? Chalets Direct allows you to add multiple clickthroughs to your website, eg.price pages, videos, photo galleries. If you've spent the time and effort making your website great we believe that people should find it!
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 Monthly statistics to monitor your advert:
- We provide you with statistics each month so you can see exactly how your pages are performing - maybe you need to tweak the text, change the photos, see how your promotions are attracting visitors to your properties.
- Your stats will show you how many people are coming to your page and which areas of the site you can use more effectively for optimal results!
- Track how many clickthroughs are going to your website and see how visitors are reacting to your page.
One-off annual subscription fee - no commission: Chalets Direct does not charge for clickthroughs or bookings - you pay a one-off annual subscription which gives you access to all our services!
Chalets Direct has been online for over 10 years. We've got experience, a proven track record and we can deliver great results.
Whether you're looking to place one property or many, we'll have your pages up and running fast so that you can benefit from all the advantages of Chalets Direct membership.
Getting online with Chalets Direct is easy:
 Email us your information or tell us where to find it online.   We create the first draft of your page.  You get your login details, and your invoice. When we receive payment your page goes live.
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your own office space!
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Chalets Direct tools to promote your property:
Membership of Chalets Direct comes with a range of extras which allow you to make some extra noise about your property.
These are all the features you get:
- An editable page for your property including:
- property description
- location info
- services description
- full contact details
- up to 15 photos
- Unlimited access to your Member Control Panel
- Availability calendar for each property
- Price panel for each property - or put in a link to your own price page on your website
- Promotions manager: add last minute bargains, special offers, featured promotions to your page
- Mulitple clickthroughs to your website: links can be through to your home page, price page, video, special services section etc.
- Solutions Room manager: choose how you can receive notifications of interested customers - directly by email or online
- Reviews section: publicise your resort or area, and open a Guestbook for your properties.
- Monthly statistics: showing number of page views, clickthrough rates, email enquiries
- Reservation manager: manage all your enquiries and reservations in the Control Panel
Prices to advertise your rental properties start at just £89 plus VAT.
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How much does it cost?
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Chalets Direct charges a one-off annual subscription fee per property! This includes all services listed in the "What's Included" section.
Subscription starts at just £89 plus VAT for a year for one rental property.
If you have multiple properties or would like to be featured on other areas of our site such as the Short Breaks and Corporate listings please contact us.
If you have a property for sale and would like to advertise it on Chalets Direct please see our For Sale advertising page.
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Three steps to becoming a member....
 Step 1
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Tell us where to find the information about your property..
Is it on another website? Just give us the URL and we can create the page for you which you can then edit.
If you don't have a website you can just email us the information for the property.
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We create the first draft of the page and then send you your log in details.
You can then log into your Control Panel where you can edit the page, create your availability calender, add links to your website, add promotions and choose how you want to show your prices.
With your login details you also receive our invoice.
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Send payment and proof of ownership/operation. We ask for a proof of ownership or some kind of proof that you are legitimately operating the property.
Payment can be made by credit card, cheque, Paypal, or direct bank transfer. Once we receive payment the page goes live and is linked to Chalets Direct.
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If you have a property for sale and would like to advertise it on Chalets Direct please see our For Sale advertising page! |
What people say about Chalets Direct...
Don't just take our word for it! Here's what some of our members and holidaymakers have to say:
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"We have now retired and are in the process of completing the sale of the chalet so we will not be renewing our subscription. Thank you and all at Chalets Direct for your excellent website over the years. You have been a great source of enquiries and bookings." Mike & Sue, Peak Leisure, April 2012 |
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"I posted on the Solutions room that we wanted a place in Meribel for the 4 nights of Easter. Got 3 replies - all would have been fine and we picked the one in the centre of Meribel and are paying what we paid to stay in Bride les Bains when we went last month ..." Ski holidaymaker, April 2012 |
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"Thanks so much for taking the time to read and answer my email. I think chalets direct is a great site and marketing tool and it has already given me great business." Lorraine, Chalet Cannelle, January 2012 |
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"The support that you and Chalets Direct have given me so far has been great, so quite excited about the next few months now.
" Charlie, La Ferme de Premera, November 2011 |
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"For info & thanks - following our inclusion in your email newsletter we've sold out our Pre Christmas week in both chalets - much appreciated!" Gary, Valley Fever, October 2011 |
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"...we've been very happy with the quality of the referrals we have had from you in the last 12 months." Graham, Hip Hideouts, Sept 2011 |
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"Chalets Direct is a brilliant website. You offer so much, keep improving and coming up with new ideas. The Solutions room, the ability to add promotions and even great for finding staff. Really, Really good!" Pip, Ski Power, May 2011 |
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"We used Chalets Direct for the first time this year and it is a revelation! Independent chalet operators must obviously work hard and offer good value to compete with the Majors, and clearly AktivExperience is no exception. We liked their flexible approach and personal service. " Ski holidaymaker, June 2011 |
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"Group of ten professional guys in their 40s and 50s looking for catered chalet or hotel in January 2012. We usually go Neilson or Crystal but giving this a try as it works so well for my family ski holiday..." Ski holidaymaker, June 2011 |
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"Just put on a new promotion and managed to pull in a group of 4 straight away. We will be using the promotion area more next season" Dave, Barrelli Ski, May 2011 |
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"Happy to say that I did find my chalet through the Solutions Room – a great help, as my plans were altered due to an injury within our party, but managed to find a great alternative!" Ski holidaymaker, Feb 2011 |
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"We no longer need to advertise because we are now renting the chalet on an annual basis through a local holiday company, otherwise we would definitely have kept our membership. I think your site is excellent both for renting out and finding accommodation." Sarah Clarke-Wareham, formerly Chalet Jouet, Morzine, Jan 2011 |
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"May I take this opportunity to thank you for all your assistance over the last 10 years. I think you have an excellent product and it has been a pleasure to watch you grow and improve each year. Good luck for the future.
" Mary Macken, formerly Alps a la Carte, Morzine, Sept 2010 |
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"We have just sold Chalet Alpage and therefore no longer require our
advertising.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you and tell you how
wonderful you are! Out of all our advertising, yours has proved the most
successful with no hassles! Thank you so much for being so great !
" Michelle Gorman, formerly Chalet Alpage, St Martin de Belleville, August 2010 |
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"Your website has become our most successful and so we would like to use it more for our chalets" Helen Slater-Daley, Morzine Holidays, July 2010 |
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"Chalets Direct do a fantastic job. So user friendly and offer great value.
Nearly all our referrals come from you. The best out there by far." Katie Harrington, Ski Harrington, July 2010 |
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"Chalets Direct is easily the market leader. Very easy to use and love the new statistics graph. You have always been so helpful.!" Rosie Journeaux, Boutique Ski, June 2010 |
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"We're extremely happy with the traffic Chalets Direct has send to us last winter - in fact it was over 50% of all our referrals!" Ben Simpson, Hundred Hills, May 2010 |
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"We have taken a chalet close to the portes du soleil which was a reply to our posting - Brilliant!
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All in all it is a fabulous website which we have used many times before and will continue to use and promote to friends in the future
" Ski holidaymaker, May 2010 |
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"Chalets Direct provide many, good enquires most of which are of high
quality. I also love the way the control panel is so easy and quick to
update. Other sites can be a complete nightmare yours is really well thought
through." David of Powder White, May 2010 |
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"Once again we have had very rapid success with your Solutions Room, and have found five nights' accommodation for next week and are now booked to go to Morzine, all in a few hours today!......We think this is an excellent service/system, and will be recommending it to all our skiing friends." Ski holidaymaker, March 2010 |
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"Many thanks for your having included us on front page of the Latest and Greatest that came out today – we are very grateful and I am sure it will help us to fill the last minute beds we have available for next week.
You guys are by far the best site when it comes to listening to your advertisers and helping in times of need. Chalets Direct is the first on our list of adverts to renew each year.
Mark & Cathy Gardiner" Go-Alpine, Feb 2010 |
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" I am so impressed with this service - so many helpful and very suitable offers from your members. I hope that I have replied to them all now, letting them know that we have found what we were after, and thanking them for their help. I will definitely be recommending your website to friends, and using it myself in the future.
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".After a slow start (probably more down to me getting around the system) i have managed to get some bookings for the season and even one for next new year! This system works very well and i am delighted with the results....Well done and thank you,Tony
" Fairvale Chalet, January 2010 |
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"..thanks for your quick response! And the new systems are great - much more user friendly for 'computer biffs' like me!" Matt Perkin MBE, formerly Alpfine Holidays,November 2009 |
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"Confirmed half term 2010 yesterday via an enq from CD solutions room. Cheers for all the help dudes, keep up the good work!" Green Mountain Chalets, posted on Twitter, August 2009 |
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"Chalets Direct continues to be a valuable source of bookings for us, both
through the direct enquiries from visitors to our page on your site and through
the forum.." mountainsinc, May 2009 |
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"Just to say how fantastic your solutions room is - worked far better for us than any ski company has ever done! Had at least 45 fantastic offers with credit crunch beating prices for the Easter holidays." Ski holidaymaker, Feb 2009 |
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"ps. the site appears to be working well for us with loads of enquiries and as many confirmed bookings
as we would like. Musn't work too hard especially this year with great snow etc !!!!" Chalet Choupette, Jan 2009 |
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"Just wanted to say that your changes are brilliant. Thanks so much for listening to everyone and making such worthwhile improvements. Great, great, great!" The Great Escape, Nov 2008 |
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"Hi - thank you! I love this new feature!" Direct Skiers, Nov 2008 |
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"Thanks for all your replies, we are now booked up and looking forward to our
holiday, let it snow! This is the third year we have used the solutions room,
what a great idea." Ski holidaymaker, Sept 2008 |
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