Advantages and disadvantages of short term

Before starting list of advantages and disadvantages I would like to explain what is accommodation in the hotel and can not be made equal between renting a room in a hotel and this regime.
Accommodation in Bucharest is hosting for a certain period of time persons. Basically, the apartment-hotel is a combination of hotel room and comfort of personal home, borrowing from the advantages of each choice of accommodation.

Apartments for rent in Bucharest are several categories and standards, ranging from studios, 2 rooms 3 rooms 4 rooms.

Who that is engaged in such work?

The list can be quite varied, from foreign or Romanian citizens who came here for business, changing jobs in another city for a certain period of time, mini-vacations for families and couples, winter holidays, or just and simply visiting a particular city.

What would be the main advantage of accommodation in Bucharest?

More spacious and comfortable, fully equipped, are located in central areas, offers a quality / price very attractive. The price of apartments short term rental in Bucharest are 40% lower than the same equivalent of star hotels.
But sometimes the price is not enough to convince us to call this type of accommodation and then I thought it would be better to lay the main advantages.

Advantages

1. The first advantage I said above and it is far lower price than in the hotels or guesthouses.
2. Generally apartments short term rental in Bucharest and other cities are located in the center or near the center where everything is provided you: cafes, clubs, malls, restaurants.all within minutes of you.
3. Most companies that practice this type of accommodation offers various discounts and special offers for short term. For example, for three nights paid, tourists can receive anadditional free or reduced price when the apartment is contracted for a period of several days.

4. Some agencies such as Eastcomfort and offers its clients the opportunity to appeal to car rental services in Bucharest and offers 50% discount on airport return.

5. Another great advantage is privacy, comfort and luxury that you will have, leaving the impression that you do not stay in a foreign house and makes you feel like you are home.

6. The check in and check out remain as flexible as in hotels with nonstop reception, and the advantage of total independence: the key of the apartment available.
7. Usually accommodation is not the number of people as in the case of hotels and guesthouses, the price is unique.
8. Renter can enjoy such a range of modern facilities such as DVD players, home cinema system, air conditioning, telephone and free wireless Internet or high-performance computer with internet access, etc.. Bathrooms are spacious and can have either bath or shower.
9. Fully equipped kitchens starting from cutlery, crockery, stove, coffee maker, refrigerator, microwave oven will be available to you at any time.

10. We put great emphasis on cleanliness and hygiene of these places, so you will always have available an extra set of bed linen and towels. And periodic cleaning depending on length of stay selected.
11. You can ask the company that you rent the more things Apartments and extra services, such as additional equipment in the kitchen, living room, even in the bedroom.
The advantage of renting an apartment in Bucharest is to privacy and individuality offered.
And not everything can be perfect as I would like to enumerate some disadvantages:

Disadvantages

1. The lack of reception. Who wants an accommodation in the middle of the night, need to call and wait until the owner appears studio / apartment and hand over the key to (check-in). Just happens to departure (check-out).
2. Accommodation in never has breakfast included. Why? Very simple: no restaurant or dining room, in the case of a block of flats, not hotel or hostel.
3. Parking is not guarded. Parking is shown at check-in, usually at the block.
4. Room-service can be provided only catering (pizza, traditional food, Chinese food, Italian food, etc).

And that conclusion can only say this: You’re almost at home short term rental!

Why should we choose the apartment rental method in Bucharest?

It has been in practice for some years now in Bucharest, and maybe in 2 or 3 bigger towns in Romania, a handy alternative of accommodation in Bucharest on short therm which is the accommodation in rented apartments and studios along the most important areas of the Capital (Unirii Square, Piata Romana, Blvd. Magheru, Blvd. Unirii, Mall Vitan etc), shortly called ” short term rental apartment “.

The offer of apartments and rooms for rent in Bucharest is always less expensive than the offer of hotels and even pensions, being perfectly adapted to business tourism or leisure.

What does this accommodation method means and how does it work?

• book through rental companies with this field of activity, an apartment (this can be a studio, a 2 – 3 rooms or even 4 rooms apartment).

• booking method? usually it’s on-line, find it very easy to search different types of companies using words like “rental apartments Bucharest”, “accommodation Bucharest”, and you will be surprised to see the amount of results, different websites that will help you to get to know their offer, by showing you pictures, prices, conditions etc.

• once you have finished the booking, that can be an on-line form or a telephone conversation, you will have to meet the company’s agent that is in charge of your reservation and accommodation; in case you arrive at the airport, you should know that most of the companies can offer you also the transfer from Otopeni or Baneasa airport to your accommodation place at a very good price. If you have already a car or use other means of transportation, you can meet the agent at a location easily reachable for you and the agent.

• the check in process is simple and quick, in such way that in maximum 5 minutes you will have in your possession all the available facilities in order to feel like home in a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere.

This kind of accommodation has appeared 8 or 10 years ago when hotels in Bucharest were fully booked with clients and had the occasion to practice spicy prices for their services.

This kind of alternative accommodation is being used for a long time now in developed countries like Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, France, USA. At the beginning, the renting apartment accommodation wasn’t very credible among Romanian tourists and potential clients were afraid of such services, so most of the people that used this kind of accommodation were foreigners used to this system very common from where they came.

In time, this comfortable alternative gain importance, rental apartments services became noticeable and clients did not wait to appear.

What can the renting apartment accommodation offer more than a hotel?

• First of all, confidentiality and intimacy, your information is not public like in a hotel, and most of all, the apartment offers you the “home” feeling – independence.

• Position, position. All apartments are located downtown Bucharest, close to restaurants, shops, banks, means of transportation, so surely more properly situated than hotels that are in most of the cases farther from the center.

• Cheaper accommodation, the renting apartment accommodation can be 50% cheaper sometimes, compared to the price of a hotel room; if you talk about 4-5 stars hotel you will find it very hard to make such a comparison.

• More space, apartments offer you a lot of space, studios can get up to 45 square meters and 2-3 rooms apartments can get up to 80 square meters, surely far away from hotel rooms, with a simple room and bathroom.

• Self-catering, apartments have their own fully equipped kitchens, so you can cook when do you like and what do you like, in such way that your stay will become even more personal.

• This accommodation system, rent an apartment, is very flexible and can respond to every client’s needs. It is also true that it doesn’t offer you the safety of a hotel reception, but the reservation number or the one of the contact person that checked you in, is always available.

For sure, you have to know that each accommodation agency has its proper rules, conditions, prices, some can offer you free services, others can charge you double, so please check twice before taking a decision.

Please note that each agency has its own check in / check out procedure, payment methods, extra bed, airport transfer, rules for late check in or early check in / check out, all these optional services being taxed and variable from an agency to another.

With the hope that this information has helped you guys, we wish you a pleasant day ahead!

EastComfort Romana

As it was well predicted, the prices practiced by hotels in Bucharest fell this year to half of the value of those charged in the fall of 2008, the price of a room for one night dropping below 100 euros, even in units of five stars, according to industry representatives.

“It goes very bad, much worse even than last year. Bucharest is a city where nothing happens and we do not have nothing to show to our city’s tourists. From what I remember, in these past 20 years we have never had such a worse fall or year” – this was the statement of George Turna, the First Vice-President of Romania Hotel Industry Federation (FIHR) and manager of the

Ambassador Hotel in Bucharest, cited by Mediafax. He added that two of the most important rates in tourism industry have declined this fall, the occupancy rate as well as the overnight period.

Mihael Acatrinei, general manager of the Four Star Hotel Ramada Majestic Bucharest, affirmed that the average price this fall is placed at a rate of 20-25% below the one from last autumn and 50% lower compared to September-October 2008. Also, the occupancy rate dropped to 55-60%, compared with the value of 80% registered two years ago. Serious fall down!

Let’s see what Mr. Acatrinei affirms in this matter: “The main problem is that the segment of the business tourism disappeared over night in Bucharest. The average price dropped to below 100 euros, even in the five stars hotel case, compared to 120-160 euros in 2008. Also, very important, the number of conferences has been reduced by about 30% compared with the situation registered two years ago, and please note that the number of weddings dropped to 20% less than previous years.  If in 2008 the average stay of a tourist in a hotel in the capital was 2.8 nights, now it has dropped to 1.1 – 1.2 nights”.

Hoteluri Bucuresti

The owner of Continental hotel chain, Radu Enache, said that the average price for four and five star hotels in Bucharest fell to 66 euros per night, while the occupancy rate fell by 20% over last year.

For example, in the case of Continental Hotels chain, for 2010, they registered this year an average occupancy rate of 52% and the revenues increased by only 2%, given that fact that the accommodation capacity increased by 15% through the opening of two hotel units, Grand Hotel Continental in Bucharest and Ibis Sibiu.

We can look all around in the media, and notice that each entrepreneur in tourism area claims that for the moment they cannot see a way out of the actual crisis. There is no exit plan, no predictability, no plan approved by the actual government.

The tourism market will gain only if the investments will be encouraged, and the banks will begin to drop their interest rate from 12% to 5-6%.

George Towers to Ambassador believes, instead, that the situation will not improve the hotels until the entire economy, not out of the crisis.

Well, not hard to conclude that all hoteliers have a pessimistic opinion in what concerns the actual end of this crisis. And for sure, because tourism is a result of all other economic activities it cannot be restored as long as the economy does not begin to find its proper parameters of evolution.

Let’s all hope that 2011 will be better than 2010…just because the hope is the last one to die!

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