2000 apartments for daily rent in Kyiv are listed on Dobovo.com

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In October 2014 the amount of apartments for daily rent in Kyiv listed on Dobovo.com website got to the point of 2000. At the end of October hoteliers listed more than 1900 apartments in Kyiv and that means that Dobovo.com has the biggest database of apartments in the Capital of Ukraine. The owners list 2-3 apartments in average but there are companies that offer 30 and more accommodation options. Around 60% of apartments in Kyiv are available for online booking and the customers are free to book the apartments they like straight away from the website without additional confirmation of availability.

Most of the offered on Dobovo.com apartments in Kyiv are located in the city center. Studio apartments are the perfect option to stay at during a trip to Kyiv and make the bigger part of the offers. There are also a lot of accommodation options in such city districts as Podil, Livoberezhna (it’s popular because there is the Exhibition center located), Pozniaky (not far from Boryspol airport) and KPI (good location for students).

The prices vary a lot and are quite flexible. A cozy Studio apartment in the city center will cost around 30$ and Two- or Three-bedroom apartment for a big group in Podyl can be rented for 80 — 100 dollars per night. Such a low prices are caused by a high rivalry so the hoteliers offer very profitable rates.

 

«During the last few months the rates got much lower due to the situation in Ukraine. Such an affordable prices will hold for a few month more»

– supposes Dobovo.com Sales Leader Valeriia Chalenko.

So October, November and December of this year are going to be the best time to have a money-saving journey to Kyiv. This is caused by the fact that after a big growth of amount of apartments for daily rent before Euro Cup 2012 the demand today is much lower than the offer do a lot of hoteliers are ready to rent their apartments out cheaper.

Dobovo booking service makes finding and choosing an apartment for daily rent much faster and easier. The website offers actual availability schedule for verified and checked by the content team apartments. The maximum information about facilities and services are available for each apartment. The system of real reviews from the guests and prepayment will make the booking secure and guarantee a comfort journey for those who choose Dobovo.com service.

Dobovo booking service takes leading positions in Ukraine in the amount and quality of the presented information about apartments and hoteliers.
Beginning from 2011 Dobovo.com keeps on working to create the most handy and reliable resource for the clients and owners. A lot of tourists from all over the world and most Ukrainians choose Dobovo.com service to book accommodation in Ukraine.

500 apartments for daily rent in Lviv listed on Dobovo.com

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October 2014, content department of Dobovo booking service informs that 500 apartments for daily rent in Lviv are listed on the company’s website. On Dobovo.com website are listed over 7500 apartments from more than two thousands hoteliers in 63 cities of Ukraine and the company keeps on growing and intensively widening the database of apartments.
You can reserve daily apartment, house, hostel or hotel suite in different cities of Ukraine. The prices in Lviv vary from 60 UAH per place in hostel in the city center to a spacious apartment and private house for a big company for 3000 UAH per night.

Lviv is one of the most interesting cities for tourists in Ukraine that has its own unforgettable atmosphere. Many hoteliers in Lviv saved vintage elements in their apartments and succeed to make their apartments answer the requirements of the clients, modern household appliances, furniture and facilities. Most of the apartments listed on Dobovo.com have eclectic design which will help to enjoy the city and leave special impression no matterr if you have a business, tourism or romantic journey.

«Lviv — is one of the most popular cities for tourists as every season a lot of different cultural events, shows, festivals and exhibitions take place here. A lot of Ukrainians traditionally celebrate New Year’s Eve, Christmas, Independence Day and May holidays in Lviv. In these periods the city that always has quite a lot of activity gets even more attractive for the travelers. Also a lot of people from Ukraine and from all over the world are attracted by such events as Lviv Fashion Week, Modern Art Week, Alfa Jazz Fest, different thematic events as Wine and Cheese holiday, Chocolate Fest etc. That’s why the demand for daily apartments keeps a tendency to grow» – Tatyana Guligs, Dobovo.com content manager shares her opinion.

In the period of holidays most of the hoteliers increase price at least for 20-30% and the minimum period of stay from 1-2 days to 3-5 days. Reservation department specialists advise to book apartments beforehand — two weeks and more before the check in date to get a bigger offer of apartments that answer all the requirements and avoid any unpleasant situations.

Dobovo.com booking service was found in 2010 and permanently improves the service for hoteliers and guests. Dobovo booking service commands the widest base of daily apartments in Ukraine, listing over 7000 apartments hostels, private houses and hotel suites in 63 cities. The customers can book accommodation directly on the website. The Support team is available 7 days a week to assist with booking for the clients and hoteliers.

Dobovo booking center becomes a partner of NETwork conference

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Dobovo became one of the partners of NETwork conference which took place in Lviv on September 19th, 2015. This event was dedicated to Microsoft technologies and oriented particularly on developers. The conference exists from 2011 and 500 participants are expected this year.

Dobovo provides favourable terms of booking to the participants of NETwork and offers 200 UAH discount for daily apartment reservation in Lviv for the period of conference. In order to get the gift certificate you should be a registered event participant.

Today dobovo.com cooperates with more than 2 thousands apartment owners. There are around 8,5 thousands accommodation options offered on the web-site. The company keeps on top of trends and offers convenient conditions for the clients as well as for the partners. Dobovo booking center provides own partnership program and stays open for the new cooperation opportunities. Today Dobovo’s partners are accommodation catalogues, tourism-oriented sites, real-estate portals, tour agencies and a lot of other organizations. Within the program the company offers such partnership options as referral links, vigets and co-brand. Dobovo booking center is constantly improving the functionality of the site and helps making the booking process as fast and easy as possible.

Personal discounts from the owners on Dobovo

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June 18th, 2015 Dobovo booking center released new functionality — personal discounts for the guests from hoteliers. Every hotelier henceforward can offer a discount for his potential clients as they may in their discretion think fits. Dobovo keeps on permanently working on updates to help the owners and clients to intercommunicate directly. Openness in communication and possibility to get the best offers — are always in high priority for the hoteliers and customers. Personal discounts is precisely the functionality that will help both sides to communicate directly during the booking process.

How it works?

Every customer who has personal profile on dobovo.com can request a discount for chosen apartment from the hotelier. In order to do that the guest will need to use «Ask owner a question» form, fill in the obliged information and send a request. The owner in his turn after receiving a request can submit a personal proposal for the guest. The owner can also offer a discount for another apartment or dates.

What it gives?

Providing a personal special offer to the guest the owner lays the groundwork for open and mutually beneficial communication even before booking. The guest will appreciate the loyalty which will help him to make his choice to book one or another apartment. Technical Director of IT-department Andriy Bezlyudnyi commented on new functionality:

«It became easier for the client to be identified by the hotelier. The owner will see the potential customer and their communication will be faster and without interference of third parties. The owners will also have an opportunity to reward the regular customers with personal discounts».

More than 8 thousand apartments are listed by over 2,5 thousand hoteliers on dobovo.com website. Thousands of customers visit the website to search for apartments for daily rent in over 50 cities in Ukraine daily. In order to make booking not only secure but also totally autonomous for both sides Dobovo booking center developers new functionality and improves already existing on permanently basis. The future of daily rent is in development of new technologies.

Dobovo.com releases mobile version of the site

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On September 23, 2015 Dobovo booking center releases the long-awaited new version of the site adapted for display on mobile devices.

Find your perfect apartment

Finding an accommodation gets easier especially for those who often travel and have limited access to PC.

Using filtering and sorting instruments gets much more comfortable with the mobile version: clients can choose the most appropriate apartment via cell-phone in just a few minutes.

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Dobovo is starting cooperation with Tripping

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Dobovo booking center is starting cooperation with international daily accommodation search service Tripping.

From now on tourists from all over the world can book an apartment on Dobovo using Tripping service. This solution allows Booking center to substantially expand their client base far outside Ukraine and near-abroad countries.

Tripping CEO Jen O’Neal gives her comments in regards to cooperation:

«Ukraine is known to be a beautiful part of the world by many tourists. We are glad to announce our partnership with Dobovo as indeed they offer unique accommodation all over Ukraine. We believe that our clients will appreciate direct access to accommodation booking via Dobovo and we are also glad to expand Tripping.com coverage in Eastern Europe.»

Dobovo is the biggest daily apartments booking center in Ukraine that provides service since 2010. Today there are 2,5 thousand hoteliers listing over 8,5 thousand apartments for daily rent on the web-site. Dobovo booking center cooperates with such companies as Lun.ua, 12flats.com, adress.ua, Tripster.

Reviews about the guests are now available on Dobovo.com

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Dobovo booking center keeps on top of global trends of daily rent and on May 19th, 2015 released the long-awaited functionality — now the hoteliers can write reviews about the guests.

The clients keep expecting more from the daily rent service. They find it important not only to get the high quality service but also communication with the owners of the apartments they stay at. On the other hand we see the hoteliers who require clear relations with their clients not only during their stay but also post-travel. In regards to this Dobovo rebuilds the service to meet the client’s and partner’s requests.

Trust

Dobovo provides the possibility to recommend the guests to another hoteliers and increase the trust to the guests from their side. As the first reviews show most of the hoteliers are sharing good reviews about the guests and are ready to assist in successful future accommodation.

Transparency

Until quite recent time the communication between the hotelier and the guest was possible only via e-mail or phone. Tadays age of social networks involves us to a handier communication. From now on each guest can view the history of his bookings and the reviews about them on one page — in his personal account. There’s no need to search for messages in your mailbox to remember the bookings details. Consequently, the relations between the owner and the guest become Transparent and clear — after reading the reviews about the guest the owners can trust them more.

Responsibility

The guest will face more responsibility for his stay and the relationships with the owner booking an apartment on Dobovo.com. Making a good impression is getting more important – this will be reflected in the profile and will be useful for the guest and the owners. This feature individuates Dobovo from all the other daily rent services in Ukraine, which usually miss that the post-travel feedback is possible also from the hotelier’s side.

Dobovo booking center keeps on working to make the guest’s personal account better. In the profile the guests can view their past and future reservations and leave reviews about the apartments they’ve stayed at. At the moment the loyalty program and the system of clear and handy communication between guest and the owner are being developed. New messaging system will allow the guest to ask the owner and get a prompt reply and the loyalty program is optimized for the regular client who can get the discounts depending on the amount of successful bookings.

Dobovo.com Content manager Anastasia Uvarova shares her impression from new feature:

“New functionality is one more step to the open communication between the apartments owners and their clients. Only the clients could write a review after their stay and thus the hotelier’s opinion was put on the back burner. Now they have the possibility to share the experience they had with the clients and recommend them for the other owners. This will help the guests in future bookings as the owners will know they are dealing with the proved clients.”

Dobovo provides daily rent service from 2010 and keeps improving booking the apartments for daily rent service. Over 2300 hoteliers cooperate with the company. Today around 8 thousand apartments are listed. The unique distinguishing feature of Dobovo is the possibility to make real reviews about the apartments and there are over 13 thousands added already.

Getting ready for vacation season

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Dobovo booking center keeps on intensively preparing for the summer holiday season. The Hoteliers Support Team of dobovo.com provides consultations on all the relevant in summer period topics 7 days a week.

Traditionally the peak of activity of holidays is in the second part of July and the end of August around Independence Day. Activity rises every weekend of the summer months resulting the changes in rates and booking conditions.

The Hotelier Support Team of dobovo.com provides all the necessary information about website’s functionality and special aspects of work on High Seasons so the owners could set actual and flexible conditions of booking and the clients in their turn could book an apartment for a reasonable price, fast and easy even on high seasons. As a result the clients can be sure that there are always actual prices on the website.

Up-to-date calendar is one more important aspect of work. Support team tutes the hoteliers to work in on-line booking mode which means the availability calendar must be always instant. All of these builds the client’s loyalty who can always get great service using Dobovo.

The most popular destinations are traditionally Kiyiv, Odessa and Lviv, but more recently the clients show interest to small towns near the sea and in the mountains.

Average price for a studio apartment in Kiyiv is around 500 to 600 UAH per day and a one-bedroom apartment will cost 700 to 850 UAH.

The prices vary depending on location in Odessa — you can book a studio apartment in the historical center around 500 UAH and a one bedroom around 800 UAH, but in littoral area Arcadia the average price for a studio apartment will be 1000 UAH and a one-bedroom — 2000 UAH. Such a big price difference is associated with the fact that Odessa is still the most popular seaside city in Ukraine.

The average prices in Lviv you can definitely call the most affordable – 400 UAH per night for a studio and 550 UAH per night for a one bedroom apartment. Our reservation specialists mention that the optimal period of booking in Odessa is 5 nights especially if the booking includes weekend. For Kiev and Lviv the amount of days will be not less than 2-3 nights.

We recommend booking an apartment the earliest possible — there are much more options to choose from two weeks than in a few days before arrival. We also recommend to pay attention primary to the apartments that have last availability calendar update not more than 24 hours ago — this will guarantee actual prices and availability data.

Despite the heavy demand the hoteliers still have some available dates which allows them to offer some hot prices for the special dates. Hot offers section on dobovo.com web-site will help the customers to book for the best price. The hoteliers in their turn are able to get their apartments booked without void periods. Sales specialist of Dobovo Mary Barak shares her opinion about summer season:

«Summer is the time of vacations and at this particular season all the citizens of Ukraine strive to leave the crowded cities and go to the sea-shore. The most popular city in Ukraine in this period is Odessa and all the hoteliers have already updated the prices and are glad to welcome the guests. According to the hoteliers of dobovo.com the situation on daily rent market got better comparing to 2014: there are much more requests from the clients who are starting to book apartments for July and August already in May. We mention the growth of demand on apartments in Odessa each year so we get more and more inventory on the web-site and the satisfied guests who can choose suitable for every taste and budget apartments».

Dobovo is on-line booking center that provides service from 2010. The mail goal of the company is to offer the best conditions of booking daily apartments in Ukraine and provide the maximum support for the client. More than 2400 hoteliers cooperate with Dobovo and keep listing the apartments every day. The unique distinguishing feature of Dobovo is the possibility to make real reviews about the apartments and today there are over 13 thousands added to the web-site.

Specifics of booking in the period of May holidays

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Dobovo booking center informs about specifics of booking in the period of holidays in May. This month Ukrainians will have 4 days-off in the beginning — on 1st, 2nd, 3d, 4th, and in the middle — on 9th and 11th of May. Such a big amount of free days increases the interest to domestic tourism and all the citizens of Ukraine more often choose the most popular routes as a vacation idea.

The most popular cities are still Kiyiv, Lviv and Odessa — tourists keep choosing it from year to year to spend their holidays. This is determined by well-developed infrastructure and wide variety of places to visit. These cities are popular among families, couples and groups of friends. Our website statistics shows that in May the biggest demand is in Lviv — the amount of requests is almost twice bigger than in Kiyiv which is only on the third place. Odessa is on the second with 10% bookings than in Kiyiv.

Most of the tourists choose the first days of May to travel when the amount of free days in bigger. The average amount of nights per booking in Kiyiv is 3 and for Lviv and Odessa — one night more. Such a tendency is connected to the fact that the average price per night for an apartment for daily rent is higher in Kiyiv than in other cities. For example, apartment for daily rent in Odessa will cost 600 UAH per night, in Lviv — 700 and average price in Kiev will vary around 850 UAH per night.

First of all tourism boom influences the price — the hoteliers increase the prices for the apartments at least 1,5 — 2 times. Also, you should be ready to the fact that it’s almost impossible to book an apartment for one or two nights as almost all the hoteliers restrict the minimum nights for booking. Dobovo recommends booking apartments with actual for the season price and availability calendar.

Such apartments are always in the beginning of the search results and are marked as «Instant booking». Such a choice will guarantee the successful accommodation and ensure from any risks while the check in and stay as the hoteliers who keep their availability calendar up-to-date are always sure when the apartment is actually free and what the price would be.

Here what our Account manager Alexandra says about May high season:

«Beginning of May is the hottest period for the tourism. In these days demand is always outstripping supply which always cause essential increase in price for accommodation. Usually the prices for apartments for daily rent in the most popular cities as Kiyiv, Lviv and Odessa grew at least twice and the bookings for at least three days were accepted. This year despite a lot of requests from the clients the hoteliers change the price more carefully. As a result most of the customers have already found apartments for a reasonable price even for the high season.»

Dobovo is online booking service that works to provide the best service for the travelers and make booking fast and easy from 2010. The company works with over 2300 hoteliers who listed more than 8000 apartments for daily rent on the website.

The unique distinguishing feature of Dobovo is the possibility to make real reviews about the apartments and there are over 12500 added already.

Client’s member account on Dobovo.com

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In March 2015 Dobovo released new functionality – client’s personal account. You can register an account using your e-mail address or social networks profile — Vk, Facebook, Google+, Odnoklassniki. Client’s profile on dobovo.com website is a fully-featured account where you can fill in all the personal info and add a photo.

Today the profile allows checking on your current bookings and even add the previous ones. There’s no need to check your e-mail to find your previous bookings — you can easily view all the necessary information right in your account on the website. All the main information is available on one page — you can view the check-in and check-out dates, the prepayment amount, the amount to be paid to the hotelier at check-in and the information about order status. You can sort the reservations by status or city. If you have a lot of bookings this will allow you to check the details of your reservation such as booking ID fast and easy. If you face any questions concerning the reservation, access to the booking ID will allow to you get a prompt reply from the support team.

Writing a review about the apartment you’ve stayed at is also much easier with your personal account. The next day after check out you will see the link with review form.

At the moment hoteliers can only view the guests profile but in the nearest future the possibility to add reviews to be available in two variants: review about apartment and review about the guest. That way, the procedure of writing a review will become even easier. Reviews about the clients is our new functionality which makes communication between the customer and the hotelier more open and reliable. The owners of the apartments will be able not only to view the information about the guest but also read the comments and recommendations of the owners of the apartments the guest has already stayed at. The more information the guest provides about himself, the more trust the hoteliers will have to the potential customer. Filling in the full contact information will allow the hotelier to contact the guest faster. The direct communication between hotelier and the guest tool is also being renewed. From now on you don’t have to go to the apartment’s page to use «Ask owner a question» bottom — this will be available right in your account.
The loyalty program will also be available on our web-site. The amount of already confirmed bookings and the discount for the next ones will be shown in the account. The more bookings the client makes, the bigger discount is provided.

Technical Director of IT-department Andriy Bezlyudnyi shared his opinion on new functionality:

«The main goal was to provide the guest with personalized space on the website with a perspective for development of Win-win relationships to satisfy the individual requests of the client.
Client’s profile provides:
– clear and easy interface of authorization;
– possibility to fill in the fields required for reservation fast;
– possibility to manage your bookings on one page;
– personalized public profile;
– access to the reviews written by and about the client and the history of communication with hoteliers;
– loyalty program.»

Dobovo is Ukrainian online booking service. The company’s main intention is to make the booking process not only fast and easy but also secure and convenient. Today the amount of apartments listed on dobovo.com is over 8 thousand and the amount of reviews is getting to record-breaking 12 thousands.