Category: Web Features

Smartphone tip: Reservation Systems

4/19/2019

You've entered the Idyllwild Vacation Cabins Reservation System and want to filter your choices. Here is a tip that will allow you to search for the ideal cabin by searching only cabins with desired amenities.

Depending on the size of your smartphone, many don't realize that if they turn their smartphone sideways, they will see more data horizontally. Once done, depending on the size and resolution of their phone, they'll now see a list of settings to filter the search results based on price range, number of bedrooms and baths, and more interesting, cabin amenities. The desired search results appear instantly. Here is the difference based on orientation.

Idyllwild Vacation Cabins Adds Second Web Cam Serving Pine Cove Area

2/4/2019

Vacationers and Hikers wishing to see a live web and snow cam of both Idyllwild and Pine Cove areas, can now visit the Idyllwild Vacation Cabins website to see both communities served with a second live web cam. Both are updated every few minutes, day and night. We have seen this page so active, that we decided to add a second camera to the Pine Cove area. We think everyone will be eager to see when it's snowing too. :-)

When you visit the Idyllwild Vacation Cabins website, the web cam page is located in the ABOUT IDYLLWILD menu. It's the first menu option. For those that want to archive the page, here is the web page itself.

https://www.idyllwildvacationcabins.com/idyllwild-web-cams.html

Enjoy.

Idyllwild Vacation Cabins Adds Filtered Search Results to Ease Booking a Vacation Cabin

1/31/2019

We've added a new feature to our Booking Engine (where you book a cabin). At any time, a site visiter can click any number of CHECK AVAILABILITY buttons throughout the site. The first panel that is displayed is requesting the minimum requirements, such as the days desired for a rental, followed by the number of guests.

NOW WITH FILTERED RESULTS
The next screen will show you all of the available units, each in their own box. At the right, there are a number of check boxes that will allow you to refine your search, so that you can search for only cabins that meet the days wanted, but also include a hot tub, wood burning stove, WiFi and is Pet Friendly. You list will update in real time.

Idyllwild Vacation Cabins Offers New, Improved Booking and Availability Page

1/22/2019

Effective today, Tuesday, January 22, 2019, Idyllwild Vacation Cabins has rolled out our new Booking and Availability Calendar. We will be adding functionality to the new Booking and Availability Calendar in phases. At any place on the page, should you find a cabin that you like, it is best that you note the cabin name.

Sample "Check Availability" button.

Once you have clicked the "Check Availability" button, this will not lead directly to that specific cabin's availability page, but rather, it will allow you to see what is available amount all cabins given the desired dates and number of guests.

Initial Check Availability Booking Page

Once you have entered the desired dates and the number of guests, you will be presented with all of the cabins that fit those settings. Scan down to find the cabin name you had initially desired. In the near future, we will jump directly to that cabins availability, so please be patient. Additionally, we will have options what will allow you check boxes for cabins with Hot Tubs, Pet Friendly, WiFi, Views and Creeks. Only those cabins that fit those settings will be shown.

Sample results. You can again view images of each cabins.

At the bottom of the "List of Available Cabins", you can view what is available by date.

Stay tuned for continued updates for making booking a cabin simple and easier than ever.

If at any time, a customer needs to talk to a human, we're here to help you. Just give us a call. We're always available. We live and work in Idyllwild. You will always be talking with someone that knows each and every cabin personally. Call us: (951) 663-0527

Choosing the Best Cabin for You

10/16/2018

Desktop Computer Menus

With the new website, we are continually listening to our customers in an effort to make the site easier to find the perfect cabin. From the main menu, the OUR BEST CABINS and INDIVIDUAL CABINS menu items will lead you to every cabin we manage. The OUR BEST CABINS menu, you'll find a list of cabin pages pre-sorted by category and price. They include cabins sorted:

ALPHABETICALLY
PET FRIENDLY
WITH HOT TUBS
WITH VIEWS
ON A CREEK
and lists sorted by number if bedrooms, as in
1&2 BEDROOMS cabins
3&4 BEDROOMS cabins
5 & 6 BEDROOM cabins

All are sorted within by price within each category. The last menu option will display cabins sorted by PRICE.

Individual Cabins

For those that know the name of the cabin, you can jump directly to a specific cabin. They are sorted alphabetically in the menu. In the latest update, we have extended the cabin name by adding the number of bedrooms and/or lofts.

Mobile Devices Menus

The same menus exist when viewing the page from a mobile device. For mobile devices, you can access the website menu by clicking the menu graphics, which is denoted below. Click that to find the desired menus and sub-menus.

Idyllwild Vacation Cabins Adds Sort Pages for Number of Bedrooms for Searches

10/2/2018

The OUR BEST CABINS is a list of pre-sorted pages. If you want to seach for Pet Friendly Cabins, there is a menu option for that, just as there is now 3 menu options for the number of bedrooms.

Searches now can be done by the Number of Bedrooms, Sorted by Price

Effective immediately, visitors to the Idyllwild Vacation Cabins website and now search directly for cabins with 4 bedrooms, making finding the perfect cabin so much easier. To jump to the SORTED pages, go to the OUR BEST CABINS menu, and each menu item has our cabins sorted by various sort options to help find the right cabin quickly. Because we had a number of people asking how they could find cabins with a specific number of bedrooms, we listened and provided 3 new menu options.

1 & 2 Bedroom Cabins
2 & 3 Bedroom Cabins
and
4 & 5 Bedroom Cabins.

We know that this is going to help some of you, so with that, happy cabin hunting.

Martha

This is a sample sort page of 1 and 2 bedroom cabins

At the bottom of each SORT page, there are 9 jump buttons that will jump to other SORT pages directly.

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