Our first commercial

Take a look at our first Internet ad.

The voice used was done using AT&T Natural voices software, the audio was done with Audacity and the video was edited with AVS video Editor. The music was taken from http://incompetech.com/ and the song's name is Private Reflection

We are a hit!

Lately we have been getting a lots of hits on our booking website, crappy thing is that the conversion rate is not increasing.

What i think it is is that we might have been featured somewhere inside booking, after all we have the highest score in customer satisfaction in all accommodations in San Andres Island thanks to all our former guest.

Conversions

	Sun 6-5	Mon 6-6	Tue 6-7	Wed 6-8	Thu 6-9	Fri 6-10	Sat 6-11	Sun 6-12	Mon 6-13	Tue 6-14	Wed 6-15
Conversions/Hits	1 / 17 5.9%	0 / 70 0%	1 / 286 0.3%	0 / 271 0%	1 / 254 0.4%	0 / 445 0%	0 / 629 0%	1 / 558 0.2%	0 / 372 0%	0 / 400 0%	0 / 348 0%

Conversions: (data generated on Wed Jun 15 22:05:43 2011)

Yes, I'm a square.

Something that I didn't know when I started the Blue Almond Hostel was the amount of funny emails that i was bound to receive. Some funny, some idiotic and other ones plain weird.

I have a few personal favourites which are basically people asking for imposible things like stuffing all the family members cats and dogs included into one room and paying the single room rate or wanting to have hot steamy sex with me. One of my all time favourites was a guy who never stayed with us, but was willing to write us a review in Trip Advisor only because our reviews were good. I wish everyone were so prone to write reviews.

If you are going to write me an email keep in mind that we don't do special requests (there'are hotels for that), nor sexual favours and like our reviews to be as genuine as they get.

2010 in numbers

This is 2010 in numbers in case you are willing to invest on us!

percentage occupancy

2010 (32.8%)
33	28	36
10	11	12

Number of reservations per month

2010 (24)
3	10	14
10	11	12

Number of reservations per nationality of titular client

2010
4	1	7	3	1	2	1	2
United Kingdom	Portugal	Colombia	Brazil	Greece	Spain	Switzerland	United States Of America

Incomes from reservations per nationality of titular client

2010
1,8M	300k	1,5M	450k	40k	130k	400k	270k
United Kingdom	Portugal	Colombia	Brazil	Greece	Spain	Switzerland	United States Of America

Crazy Dog Old Lady

If you have ever seen the Simpsons, you are familiar with the crazy Cat Lazy, some fictional crazy ass old lady who mumbles and yells while she throws cats to people.
Right by the Blue Almond Hostel, we have a similar lady. She doesn't own any cats, but

1. She mumbles
   
2. She looks crazy
3. She's Old
4. She owns 8 dogs

To make the insult even worse she has name them after me; Juan 1, Juan 2, Juan 3 and so on. The dog are hideous and in very poor sanitary conditions. I can't imagine how the house must be in the inside, gross i assume.
We have pleaded to the government entities in charge and so far our cry for help has been ignored.

I have a secret admirer 100% awesome

I just got this on my email from the hostel website, awesome! Besides funny she or he sounds Japanese!

This is an enquiry e-mail via http://bluealmondhostel.com/ from:
T

I like you so much!!

I love stay 2 nights in de hostel; one for to meet you and the other lets leave to the imagination (one night to hot with you)

when you have availability??
let me know that.

Testing Hostel World

We are currently beta testing Hostel World reservation system for the months of May, June, July and August to see if its better than booking.com. So far it has proven inferior on some many levels that we might end up our beta testing pretty soon. Nonetheless we invite you to give it a go in the following link.

http://www.spanish.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/Blue-Almond-Hostel/Isla-de-San-Andres/46230