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Post by **Anthony** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:28 am

Please check out our newest sponsor, an old friend and genuine St. John resident, and their new business - Villa Fish:

<a href="http://www.villafish.com/" name="villafish"><img src="/images/villafish_150.gif" alt="Villa Fish" width="150" height="135" border="0" align="right" hspace="7"></a><img src="/images/pinkbut992.gif" width="13" height="11" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.villafish.com/">Villa Fish St. John Vacation Rentals and Villas</a>Based on the island of St. John, <a href="http://www.villafish.com/">Villa Fish</a> offers the largest collection of St. John vacation rental villas in the widest price ranges. By working with <a href="http://www.villafish.com/">Villa Fish</a> to focus on your preferences, we can help you make the right selection to ensure you and your traveling companions have the perfect place to call home during your time on island. We offer our own personal walk through reviews of the properties, online booking, and guest services. St. John villas are divided into categories such as great values, family friendly, villas suited for large parties and weddings, good choices for friends traveling together and more. Whatever type of vacation you're planning, we can help you find the perfect place to stay. Call 888 693-9797 or visit our website <a href="http://www.villafish.com/">villafish.com</a> to begin.

Ksea · Post by **Ksea** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:36 am

What a great idea! I tried it twice, but it returned no results either time. Wonder what I did wrong?

Post by **Anthony** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:50 pm

Ksea wrote:I tried it twice, but it returned no results either time. Wonder what I did wrong?

Tried a search?

RJ in Wisconsin · Post by **RJ in Wisconsin** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:09 pm

I can't get into the website. Would love to check it out.

Ksea · Post by **Ksea** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:02 pm

Anthony - Yes. I filled in my criteria and hit "go fish". It said "your search returned no results" please try again. So I did...and same response.

villafish · Post by **villafish** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:24 am

Ksea - Thanks for checking out the site. We found out yesterday about a bug in the search. Instead of checking off "children welcome" you can check off "great for families". Please let me know if this solves the issue. We hope to have it fixed by the end of the day.

There are a lot of search criteria, and we have tested and tested... but there are always bugs. We rely on feedback from our users to squash them. Thank you!

We've gotten an incredibly positive response from the site, and from our guests. Please let us know if you have any more questions.

Thanks!

waterguy · Post by **waterguy** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:33 am

Hi Villa fish I've tried every type of shearch that i could think of but still comes up with nothing matches

villafish · Post by **villafish** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:50 am

waterguy - sorry you are having trouble with the search, you can email us your criteria and we can try to recreate the search, find the bugs, and give you a list of villas.

Ksea · Post by **Ksea** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:51 am

I too have tried several combinations of searches. A couple of times I received matches, but they did not match my search criteria.

Let's sqash those bugs! Once it is operating correctly, I will be a fantastic search tool!

RickG · Post by **RickG** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:19 am

We've needed something like this for a long time.

It looks like things are working better today. Compound searches are not working, though. "pool" works. "internet" works. "pool internet" does not work.

The advanced search seems to work pretty well.

Something to consider: people are pretty much indoctrinated in the Google query language: search terms, seperated by white space with an implicit AND. Act that way and people will think this just works.

I think decent search with availability that works is a big differentiator. Caribbean Villas has that going for them for a long time.

Comment: I prefer to see rates by the week, inclusive of all fees and taxes in the search results. I recognize this is not a standard practice, but I would like to see the actual cost.

I'd love to see comments and reviews with rankings for each villa. It might be a good idea to moderate the comments, but lightly.

Cheers, RickG

Ksea · Post by **Ksea** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:45 am

Im glad RickG mentioned how the rates are displayed. I think most of us would like to know the weekly rental rate plus taxes and any other additional fees plainly disclosed. I did not notice if there was a "listing by location" like CV has, but that is very handy as well!

augie · Post by **augie** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:52 am

I went to the site and tried the example search parameters, BBQ Grill, Hammock, and Satellite TV and they returned 1, 9, and 12 results respectively.

I would expect more than that.

FWIW

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