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Street view imagery for Hong Kong Serviced Apartments

2010-03-12T04:55:00.002+01:00

Great new experience in Hong Kong for our clients!

Google just released Street View Imagery for Hong Kong (yes, it is very impressive!)

You can see immediately the result on our Hong Kong serviced apartments listings

See it for one of the great properties listed on Moveandstay: Shama Central Serviced Apartments

I love this new feature, and you?

P.S. For our apartments providers, submit your Hong Kong property to Moveandstay now!

Apartments & Villas for Sale: Email Alerts

2010-02-23T05:17:00.000+01:00

Are you looking to buy an apartment or a villa in Thailand?

We added a tool called Apartments & Villas for Sale Email Alert

Simply enter your name, your email address and your target price and we will send you listings of properties matching your budget.

NO SPAM. Of course, we have a very strict privacy policy so you will not get any useless emails.

Apartments & Villas for Sale: Articles & Useful Information

2010-02-18T05:49:00.000+01:00

Following my previous post related to apartments & villas for sale on Moveandstay, we have added some useful information and articles for people who wish to buy a condominium, a house or a villa.

I give you below the direct links and a preview of one of the articles we have chosen:

Buying Apartments & Villas in Bangkok: 10 Useful Articles
With an article from Tatesestates.co.uk "The first thing you need to do is decide how much you can afford. You will need to look at how much money you have available yourself and how much you can borrow. There are a number of different financial institutions which offer loans to people buying a property, for example, building societies and banks. You should find out if you are able to borrow money and if so, how much (for information on mortgages, see under heading Mortgages)."

Buying Off-plan in Bangkok: Risky or worth it?
"The slowdown in the property market in Bangkok has totally taken the allure out of buying off-plan, but it has also opened up alternate possibilities for finding a good property bargain. Investors who are buying off-plan are taking a hefty risk in thinking that their finances will stay the same as they are now in such a volatile economic environment – especially if their capital is off-shore and they are relying on uncertain exchange rates. As they will have to pay the majority of their investment upon completion of the project, it means that they are at fortune's mercy."

Guide to Buying a Condominium in Bangkok
"If you are looking for freehold ownership of a property then there are several important points to adhere to. The first essential is that the condo must be in the building's foreign quota, which is usually only forty nine percent of the building – this can be ascertained by looking at the title deed of the property."

If you wish to browse our property listings with great apartment for sale in Bangkok, follow this link: Bangkok Apartments For Sale

Apartments & Villas for Sale!

2010-02-10T08:56:00.002+01:00

Today we are excited to announce a new product: Apartments & Villas for Sale.

As a first step, Thailand will be the first country with featured apartments & villas for sale.

Are you currently living or about to live in Thailand?
Do you plan to retire in Bangkok, Hua Hin, Pattaya or Phuket?

To buy an apartment or a villa is a very good solution
We propose more than 44 apartments & villas and 11 projects available for sale with prices starting from THB 2,357,000.

Get access to our properties portfolio!
Simply go to the following pages and discover our properties portfolio:

Of course, if you have specific needs, you can always contact us.

Get the lowest price for your stay!

2010-02-09T11:28:00.002+01:00

On Moveandstay, whenever you are in the process of booking a serviced apartments for a short or a long period, the price is calculated automatically according to your length of stay.

We've figured out that for some length of stay (between 21 and 30 days), the monthly rate can be a lot cheaper than the weekly rate.

What makes Moveandstay different compared to other websites is that you can get the cheaper rates just by extending a little bit your length of stay (terms & conditions may be different though). You can of course ignore this offer and continue with the price quoted before.

To illustrate this feature, I invite you to see the 2 examples as per below.

I input my check-in and check-out date and I clicked the link Check Monthly Rate below the price quoted.

Result: I got a rate more than 47% cheaper than the regular daily rate!

As a summary:

You get instant availability
You get instant pricing
You get the choice to get the monthly rate if you wish

Do you like it? Send us your feedback: contact@moveandstay.com

Hot Deals on Facebook

2010-02-02T09:22:00.001+01:00

We're excited to share with you a new content featured on our Facebook page: Apartments Hot Deals.

You will find in this category the latest special offers and hot deals from serviced apartments worldwide.

You can of course also receive Moveandstay hot deals via Twitter :)

Do you like it? Tell us!

Improved Property Page!

2010-01-28T09:49:00.000+01:00

We have just released an update of our property dedicated page.

You can view at a glance photos, essential information of the properties and you can select / filter the units you are interested-in very easily.

Try it! go to Le Grove Serviced Apartments, Singapore

Make multiple inquiries at the same time

2010-01-18T10:53:00.000+01:00

Great News!

At Moveandstay, we are constantly experimenting new ways for client to getter get contact with the apartments or offices owners.

We have developed a simple tool that will allow you to select several units and contact the owners directly.

Just go to the listing page of your favorite city (i.e. Bangkok serviced apartments for rent listing), select the units you are interested-in and click on Make Inquiry Now.

Your request will be instantly delivered and you will get an answer fast.

Send us your feedback! contact@moveandstay.com

For Haiti

2010-01-15T10:24:00.002+01:00

Information, resources, and ways you can help survivors of the Haiti earthquake.

New Moveandstay Logo on Facebook

2010-01-11T09:09:00.007+01:00

We have uploaded today a new logo on our Facebook page.

You like Facebook? You like Moveandstay?

Become a fan today!

Just drop us a comment to let us know if this logo is cool or not!

P.S. Moveandstay has now a permanent url on Facebook! Go to www.facebook.com/moveandstay

Happy New Year!

2010-01-01T09:14:00.002+01:00

All Moveandstay team join me to wish you a happy new year 2010 :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Season's Greetings from moveandstay.com

2009-12-29T04:53:00.002+01:00

All of us at moveandstay.com join in saying "Thank you" and wishing you a happy holiday and a prosperous new year.

Best Wishes,
Moveandstay Team

Serviced Apartments & Serviced Offices Worldwide www.moveandstay.com

Moveandstay Customer Reviews - Report

2009-11-18T11:45:00.001+01:00

We are pleased to share with you our first report on the reviews we collected from our customers.

From August to mid November 2009, we collected 157 reviews about Moveandstay’s staff and 60 reviews about the serviced apartments we offer on www.moveandstay.com

To see the 2 forms we sent out to our customers:
1/ Customer service review
2/ Serviced apartment review

Customer profile

Overall the profile of our customers is split as follow:
- Leisure traveler: 60%
- Business traveler: 40%

Customer service review

Regarding the customer service review, four criteria are used for evaluating Moveandstay’s staff that received excellent rating:

1.     Friendly staff: 99% of our clients are very satisfied or satisfied.
2.     Relevant selection of apartment: 97% of our clients are very satisfied or satisfied
3.     Fast response: 96% of our clients are very satisfied or satisfied
4.     Good follow-up: 94% of our clients are very satisfied or satisfied

Please find below all the details:

Many interesting suggestions and recommendations have been proposed by our customers such as offering a customer bonus point system/loyalty program or some inputs about how to make our booking process faster…
We keep in mind all of these ideas and are thinking about how to implement it as best as possible.

Serviced apartment star rating

Our customers rate our serviced apartment offer as follow:
-       Over 50% of our serviced apartments are rated with 4 or 5 stars.
-       25% are considered as 3 star properties.
-       Less than 20% of clients perceived our serviced apartment offer as 1 or 2 star properties.

Serviced apartment review

5 criteria are used for evaluating our serviced apartment offer that gets very positive ratings as well:
Cleanliness: This item is the best rated with 93% of very satisfied or satisfied customers.
Apartment staff, value for money and services get each 90% of very satisfied or satisfied clients.
Comfort: 88% of our customers are very satisfied or satisfied.

Please find below further data:

Keep sharing with us your valued feedback either on your booking experience or on the apartment you stayed in to help us improve our service and serve you better next time!

Welcome to the new Moveandstay!

2009-11-02T11:04:00.015+01:00

After 9 years at your service, we acquired great level of experience in term of customer needs and we tried to develop our clients' satisfaction at the maximum possible.

Following our new ideas and your recommendation, we thought a lot about the best way to make your apartments and offices search and user experience to be absolutely unique.

We have tested these fresh ideas for 6 months on our sister websites: Apartments & Offices in Australia (Moveandstay.com.au) and Apartments & Offices in UK (Moveandstay.co.uk) and we got very good feedbacks so far.

We are now proud to make you discover the latest improvements that we believe will be very useful for business travelers and expatriates.

The new Moveandstay is now live with great new features:

Better functionalities:

Instant availability
Instant pricing
New greatly improved search
FAST to load (we know you do not like to wait)

Better content:

New products: budget apartments
Latest apartments and offices news
More great properties

Better services:

Very accurate property localization (what is in the neighborhood?)
Concierge service for our customers (only in Thailand for now, soon in other countries)
Great friendly staff to satisfy your needs (see our customer satisfaction report)

There is a LOT more to come but now it is your turn, let us know what YOU think!

Give it a try! Go to see our Apartments & Offices Worldwide (www.moveandstay.com)

Send us your feedback to contact@moveandstay.com

New Affiliate Manager

2009-10-15T03:55:00.002+01:00

Dear partners,

We are pleased to announce you that Moveandstay has a new affiliate manager: Mr Oliver Limsila

Should you have any question regarding the following topics:

- Apartments or offices partnership general questions

- Optimization of your affiliate pages to get more leads and bookings

- Change of partnership plan (XML, Iframe, General inquiry form, banners)

- Commission question

Please do not hesitate to send an email to oliver@moveandstay.com

Improved Search

2009-10-13T09:34:00.007+01:00

Just a short update to let you know that we have greatly improved our search engine.

This search tool was already able to find serviced apartments using:

Address
Zip
Area

It is now able to look into the following property fields:

Property names (Strong request from our customers!)
Google Maps objects (Google provides useful information on objects near the properties)
Content Tags (special tags added by Moveandstay team)

To summarize, finding a serviced apartments on Moveandstay has never been easier :)

Serviced Apartments Asia 2009

2009-10-13T06:15:00.002+01:00

Moveandstay CEO will be speaker at the conference "Serviced Apartments Asia 2009"

19-21 October 2009 at Grand Hyatt Singapore

Serviced Apartments Asia 2009

Unlock the opportunities in Asia's thriving market!

Asia's first and foremost forum dedicated to addressing serviced apartments as a high-yielding asset class, a premier platform where key industry players converge to do business.

Conference Schedule:

Pre-conference day:

19 October 2009, 9.30am - 4.30pm

Conference days:

Day 1,

20 October 2009, 8.30am - 6pm

Day 2,

21 October 2009, 9.30am - 6pm

More Information

Free Email alert service about the lowest airfares from Bangkok to anywhere

2009-10-01T12:13:00.007+01:00

Do you live in Bangkok and do you travel frequently? Then you probably know that finding the best airline ticket deals to your preferred destination that also fits your travel needs and your budget is a real challenge! That's why we are offering a new airfare email alert service to help you find the latest airfare prices from Bangkok to destinations around the globe.

How does it work? Subscribe to our airfare email alerts on www.bangkokbestflights.com - it takes less than 1 minute to sign up and receive email alerts about the latest deals from Bangkok to your favorite cities.

In addition, our Bangkok Best Flights blog offers the latest news about airports and the airline industry here in Asia and around the world.

Stay tuned! Follow Bangkok Best Flights on Twitter where we provide real time updates on the latest promotions.

Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bkkbestflights

Bowling Competition

2009-10-01T08:43:00.011+01:00

On 1st of October, Moveandstay team attended a bowling competition organized by SERVCORP (one of our favorite serviced offices providers) on 1st of October 2010 in Bangkok for the benefits of a charity association named Camillian Home (St. Camillus Foundation of Thailand) and sponsored in part by Dahra Spa & Beauty.

We had a great evening playing bowling with all people present on this occasion. Find below some photos of this great evening :)

Several members of the teams (all?) made a donation for this association which purpose is caring for children living with disabilities.

Here is the list of participants:

Moveandstay 2 teams
Jones Lang LaSalle 3 teams (WINNER)
Ark Enterprise 1 team
Savills 1 team
Dahra Spa & Beauty 1 team (sponsor)
Camillian Home for Disabled Children 1 team

Moveandstay team did not win this time but we will train hard to get better results soon.

Thank you SERVCORP for this fun competition!

Budget Apartments

2009-09-25T11:47:00.002+01:00

We have increased our properties portfolio and we are now proud to propose you a new product: BUDGET APARTMENTS.

Because we know that economic crisis is (was?) in the air, we thought that it would be a great idea to propose apartments that fit lower budgets than the one required normally by serviced apartments.

Give it a try! Go to Perth Budget Apartments

Moveandstay API is ready!

2009-09-24T11:43:00.002+01:00

Our custom API for prices and availability is now ready.

If you have a calendar system / pricing system, we can now connect your system to ours and reciprocally.

If your apartment or office is using such solution (i.e. Ezyield, Levart, etc) and you wish your property to be connected to Moveandstay system, please contact us, we will be happy to help.

New Search

2009-09-23T10:38:00.002+01:00

Today we released a great feature on Moveandstay: the new PROPERTY SEARCH

I list below the features of this tool

- Search by price

- Search by location (you know autosuggestion? type "cit" and the system finds "city centre"

- Search by guests, bedroom type

- Get the apartments & offices listing by email instantly

Soon you will be able to search by property name, neighborhood and

Give it a try, at Moveandstay, we LOVE it :)

Go on Moveandstay Sydney Serviced Apartments page and find what you are looking for

New Products for Affiliates

2009-09-18T10:17:00.003+01:00

Dear affiliates,

As a partner, I would like to propose you to feature on your website a new great content from Moveandstay.

We now feature serviced offices and virtual offices as part of our affiliation solution.

We do have a great offer associated with a very easy to integrate procedure.

Let us know if you are interested and I will send you more details about this offer.

Share with us your client reviews!

2009-08-31T09:09:00.004+01:00

You are one of our valued partners and you own one or multiple properties referenced on our websites? Do you have maybe great client reviews that you would like to share?

In this case, we offer you the opportunity to share with us your client reviews.
We think that testimonials from previous clients is the best way to gain future client's trust.
Also, we are convinced that these reviews will help our customers choose the right apartment meeting their wishes and expectations.

To share your client reviews, just click here and fill out our online form.

Then, we will be pleased to feature it on your listings - this will boost your number of inquiries!

Whenever you wish to give us a new review, simply use this form.
If you own several properties, just fill a form per property, submit and repeat.

We are looking forward to receiving your great reviews soon!

Freshly arrived from France!

2009-08-25T12:20:00.001+01:00

Hello everybody! My name is Marie, or should I say Maliii for my Thai colleagues. I arrived in Moveandstay offices over one month ago. I am 23 and I come from France.

I thank Gael for offering me the opportunity to complete my final internship in marketing before graduation,here, in Bangkok, and all the Moveandstay team for their warm welcome.

It is the first time I come to Asia... so you may imagine I discover every day more and more multiple aspects of a new culture...definitely different from European culture!
Anyway I enjoy and try to adapt as much as possible...but I can't avoid the cultural shocks...

What surprised me the most in Thailand so far:
- niceness of Thai people
- spicy food
- huge traffic jams
- 7 eleven shops open 24/7
- shopping malls and stores open every Sunday
- huge night markets
- pink eggs
- food and beverages to take away in plastic bags
- tiny tissues in restaurants
- Thai people do not say easily 'no'

and What I miss the most:
- cheese!
- bread
- green salad with olive oil dressing
- salt and pepper... ;-)

Anyway, I definitely appreciate to live this experience in Thailand, and especially among the Moveandstay team! ;-)

See you soon! ;-)

Marie