Post by Admin on Feb 27, 2015 20:13:13 GMT
The Loyalty Vacation Home Story, How we were Industry Leaders from the beginning........
by Yvonne Kirby ( Owner, President Loyalty Inc)
Once upon a time, (long , long ago), while living in the UK, we dediced we would make our dream holiday (vacation) come true by taking our two young boys to DISNEY. We booked our flights and decided to do what they called a "fly-drive' so we would just travel around and stay in hotels on the way. This is how it went.
We would arrive late in the day, I would wait in line at the front desk to check in and pick up my room keys, while everyone else impatienly waited in the car and then pay an arm and a leg for a tiny room.
Then we would park in a crowded parking lot, hike all the way up to our hotel room, carrying all of our heavy luggage up flights of stairs, with two very excitable kids!
My husband and I had no privacy in this little room and the kids had nowhere to expend all of their energy. Two very excited boys!!!! We would spend all evening asking them to be quiet, as they were giggling and fighting.
The beds were uncomfortable, lumpy mattresses, the bathrooms were always small, four of us sharing ONE bathroom, and there was only 1 small TV that had a few fuzzy channels.
Then the kids would wake up the next day and wanted to swim, we all had to get everything together, hike down to the pool where it was a struggle to find pool chairs together for everyone to sit on. Then you realize you forgot your sunglasses, long treck back to the room for someone.
We would be sharing the pool with lots of noisy families, my kids being some of the noisiest, so we would have to keep telling them to be quiet, then they would have to get out of the pool once it closed, sometimes fairly early.
Next day was a Disney park, very long day. We would get back to the motel and we would try to go to sleep, but we would be interrupted by maids, doors slamming, kids in the next room screaming and cars honking below or police sirens on the busy road we were on.
When it was time to eat, we would search for our car in the parking lot, drive to a busy restaurant, and pay for an overpriced meal, sometimes multiple times a day! My two boys were always hungry. We could keep chips in the hotel room, but not many rooms had a refrigerator, so we could not keep food or drink that needed cooling. If there was a fridge it would be the smallest one ever.
We would waste so much money and time going to the restaurants three times a day!
We loved Florida and the theme parks so much, we would travel here twice a year, but still did not learn our lesson.
We brought family and friends with us a few times, but we would be split apart, into different rooms on separate floors. We spent more time trying to find each other and going from room to room than actually spending time together!
Then one day on a trip in 1996 , we found a VACATION HOME, and realized that we didn’t have to vacation like this anymore! That vacations don’t have to be over priced, crowded and inconvenient.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE.
We were so impressed that we bought a vacation home ourself. From this grew LOYALTY VACATION HOMES. We started renting and managing homes in 1999, one of the first Companies here in Kissimmee, and are still in business to this day
I wanted to offer something different, innovative and unique, so...........
I named the vacation home I rented " Cinderellas Castle" this was the first time that a house had a name. And I offered "actual homes" to guests. EVERY other company at that time DID NOT name their homes and DID NOT let you choose the home you would stay in. You would just be in a generic 4 bedroom home. Their web sites did not show you the homes you could choose from, they just showed a standard TYPE.
We ensured our homes were VERY close to Disney so that guests could experience the parks, come back to their homes for a swim on a hot day, or have lunch by their pool, then still have plenty of time to go back after lunch to enjoy the rest of the day or fireworks.
Then we turned unused garage space into Game rooms or Cinema , NOBODY else in 1999 offered game rooms. In fact a lot of my owners questioned why we should do that. Guests LOVED it.
We were and always have been, different.
Now..... EVERYONE offers game rooms: EVERYONE lets you choose a particular home and nearly EVERYONE names their homes.
BUT WE WERE THE FIRST, and we stay ahead of the crowd by offering you the best we can.
So, Don’t settle for a generic vacation home, with an inexperienced Vacation Company.
Stay with the Company you can trust to make your special STORY. We chose our name very carefully...........
LOYALTY
“You and your family are one of a kind, so your vacation home should be too!”
Families, just like yours, have chosen Loyalty Vacation Homes many times and have memories that last a lifetime.
They make sure each vacation is a "HAPPILY EVER AFTER" ONE.
Yvonne Kirby
by Yvonne Kirby ( Owner, President Loyalty Inc)
Once upon a time, (long , long ago), while living in the UK, we dediced we would make our dream holiday (vacation) come true by taking our two young boys to DISNEY. We booked our flights and decided to do what they called a "fly-drive' so we would just travel around and stay in hotels on the way. This is how it went.
We would arrive late in the day, I would wait in line at the front desk to check in and pick up my room keys, while everyone else impatienly waited in the car and then pay an arm and a leg for a tiny room.
Then we would park in a crowded parking lot, hike all the way up to our hotel room, carrying all of our heavy luggage up flights of stairs, with two very excitable kids!
My husband and I had no privacy in this little room and the kids had nowhere to expend all of their energy. Two very excited boys!!!! We would spend all evening asking them to be quiet, as they were giggling and fighting.
The beds were uncomfortable, lumpy mattresses, the bathrooms were always small, four of us sharing ONE bathroom, and there was only 1 small TV that had a few fuzzy channels.
Then the kids would wake up the next day and wanted to swim, we all had to get everything together, hike down to the pool where it was a struggle to find pool chairs together for everyone to sit on. Then you realize you forgot your sunglasses, long treck back to the room for someone.
We would be sharing the pool with lots of noisy families, my kids being some of the noisiest, so we would have to keep telling them to be quiet, then they would have to get out of the pool once it closed, sometimes fairly early.
Next day was a Disney park, very long day. We would get back to the motel and we would try to go to sleep, but we would be interrupted by maids, doors slamming, kids in the next room screaming and cars honking below or police sirens on the busy road we were on.
When it was time to eat, we would search for our car in the parking lot, drive to a busy restaurant, and pay for an overpriced meal, sometimes multiple times a day! My two boys were always hungry. We could keep chips in the hotel room, but not many rooms had a refrigerator, so we could not keep food or drink that needed cooling. If there was a fridge it would be the smallest one ever.
We would waste so much money and time going to the restaurants three times a day!
We loved Florida and the theme parks so much, we would travel here twice a year, but still did not learn our lesson.
We brought family and friends with us a few times, but we would be split apart, into different rooms on separate floors. We spent more time trying to find each other and going from room to room than actually spending time together!
Then one day on a trip in 1996 , we found a VACATION HOME, and realized that we didn’t have to vacation like this anymore! That vacations don’t have to be over priced, crowded and inconvenient.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE.
We were so impressed that we bought a vacation home ourself. From this grew LOYALTY VACATION HOMES. We started renting and managing homes in 1999, one of the first Companies here in Kissimmee, and are still in business to this day
I wanted to offer something different, innovative and unique, so...........
I named the vacation home I rented " Cinderellas Castle" this was the first time that a house had a name. And I offered "actual homes" to guests. EVERY other company at that time DID NOT name their homes and DID NOT let you choose the home you would stay in. You would just be in a generic 4 bedroom home. Their web sites did not show you the homes you could choose from, they just showed a standard TYPE.
We ensured our homes were VERY close to Disney so that guests could experience the parks, come back to their homes for a swim on a hot day, or have lunch by their pool, then still have plenty of time to go back after lunch to enjoy the rest of the day or fireworks.
Then we turned unused garage space into Game rooms or Cinema , NOBODY else in 1999 offered game rooms. In fact a lot of my owners questioned why we should do that. Guests LOVED it.
We were and always have been, different.
Now..... EVERYONE offers game rooms: EVERYONE lets you choose a particular home and nearly EVERYONE names their homes.
BUT WE WERE THE FIRST, and we stay ahead of the crowd by offering you the best we can.
So, Don’t settle for a generic vacation home, with an inexperienced Vacation Company.
Stay with the Company you can trust to make your special STORY. We chose our name very carefully...........
LOYALTY
“You and your family are one of a kind, so your vacation home should be too!”
Families, just like yours, have chosen Loyalty Vacation Homes many times and have memories that last a lifetime.
They make sure each vacation is a "HAPPILY EVER AFTER" ONE.
Yvonne Kirby