The Green Haven at Watersong Blog

Latest Guest Review

We strive to provide a five star service from initial contact right through until a guest returns home from their holiday. We can only guage how well we have done by the reviews and feedback we recieve from our guests. We encourage everyone to make comments in our guest book in the villa  but we also encourage guests to post reviews on the Internet. Here is the latest review amd we are delighted not only the five stars but with  the very positive comments. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in staying info@thegreenhaven.co.uk or visit

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Book Direct – Save Money !

We advertise The Green Haven at Watersong on a number of different websites including the major ones – Owners Direct, Trip Advisor and Air BnB. These have generated lots of enquiries and bookings over the past year and given us a five star rating on each site. We are grateful to everybody who has used these websites and for the feedback we’ve had from our guests, and look forward to taking more bookings and responding to enquiries from these websites. However each of these websites are now, or will from 1st June be charging a service fee to guests which

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Changes to Visa Waiver Program Entry Requirements into United States (ESTA)

You may have read in the media about the unfortunate consequences for some passengers travelling to Florida because of changes to the Visa Waiver Program entry requirements (ESTA) Please be advised that Electronic Passports are required for ESTA entries into the United States from 1st April 2016. For further information please visit the following webpages Department of Homeland Security or ESTA Webpage

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Happy Birthday – Special Offer!!

Today is our first birthday…12 months today we closed on The Green Haven at Watersong and our adventure into the villa rental market in Orlando began. The past twelve months has seen us take over 30 weeks of bookings with guests coming from as far afield as Brazil to stay. We’ve tried hard to provide a quality service right from the initial contact with potential guests right through to sorting out a new iron for some guests on a Sunday. Thanks to our wonderful management team who have helped us along the way we have managed to build our reputation

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Pictures Paint…

Happy New Year – May 2016 be prosperous and healthy for everyone.. Throughout the whole of last year we have been striving to show The Green Haven at Watersong at its best be it on our website or on the various listing sites that we utilise. They say that a picture paints a thousand words, and the photographs we have used to advertise The Green Haven at Watersong have attempted to demonstrate its best features, such as the spacious and bright living room, the large deck and pool with its nature conservation views and the complete lack of overlooking at

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Booking The Green Haven at Watersong

There is probably not been a day since we took over The Green Haven at Watersong when we haven’t thought about when our next booking will come through and how to maximise exposure on the Internetbook. We decided right from the beginning that we would have a booking system that gave us the potential opportunity to integrate with other websites and expose the villa to as many potential guests as possible. Our choice was Supercontrol and so far we have utilised their integration features across a number of websites. Whilst most of the integration has been straight forward utilising the

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Finishing Touches Part 2

It’s been just over 2 months since we took over The Green Haven at Watersong and I don’t think there has been a day when we’ve not been thinking about what changes are needed to make the villa attractive to entice guests to book and stay. Thanks to Kylie from Homes of America our Management Company for all her hard walked and patience we now have The Green Haven at Watersong looking its best and shining…check out the photos on our website. Her hard work has created the new look in master bedroom, the spacious open plan living room, kids

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The Finishing Touches

We’ve just spent our first week at The Green Haven at Watersong since we bought it and so much has been done to improve it since then. Kylie and her team have been working really hard over the past month to improve its appeal and modernise it ready for future guests. As soon as we walked in last week it got the WOW factor – the living room had been transformed – the new 50″ Samsung UHD SMART TV hanging in the wall is now a stunning centre piece in the room. We didn’t know whether the unit below it

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The Case for Choosing a Villa in Orlando

So you’ve decided to go to Florida on holiday if it’s your first time you may not be sure where to stay – so what alternatives do you have: • Stay at Disney in one of their hotels; • Stay in a hotel away from Disney or • Stay in a private villa with private pool Obviously each family has its own individual circumstances but consider the pros and cons of each option, and when you’ve read this you should hopefully realise that staying in a private villa with its own private pool is the best option. Yes staying at

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The Green Haven at Watersong Website is “Mobile Friendly”

According to the worlds most used search engine Google The Green Haven at Watersong website is officially ‘mobile friendly’. You may have read or heard that Google has changed its search algorithm to favour websites that have been designed to favour sites that work well on mobile devices. If not have a look at the article on the BBC website Following a review of the website by Google we are pleased to announce that it has passed with flying colours. What does this mean? When you do a search for The Green Haven at Watersong using Google you will see

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