Web of lies, or lies on the Web.

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Created: Tuesday, 19 July 2011 16:16
Written by Juan Velasquez
Web of lies, or lies on the Web.
While doing some benchmarking on the web I found out that a new hostel is soon opening in San Andres in SEP 2011. This is great news for the island and we welcome them with open arms, as backpackers are a market that has been historically neglected in San Andres and to everyone's surprise is a very profitable and low impact niche.
What I find...

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How far are we from Downtown

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Created: Wednesday, 13 July 2011 12:36
Written by Juan Velasquez
How far are we from Downtown Lately I have read a few comments about the distance between the Blue Almond Hostel and downtown, most people comment that we are very close from each other and that is only a matter of minutes to get where the "action" is, and by action they mean stores, beaches, bars and restaurants.
As usual there's always an asshole who claims that a 10 minute...

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We are a hit!

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Created: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:44
Written by Juan Velasquez

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.

Convers...

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Yes, I'm a square.

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Created: Wednesday, 08 June 2011 18:34
Written by Juan Velasquez
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...

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  • Looking far into the future? Most of our guests are spontaneous travelers, so we only open up availability 1-2 months prior to arrival date.
  • We don't take 1 night bookings (they are not profitable for us) and we ONLY take online reservations.

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