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FIS Nordic World Ski Campionships will be hosted 22 February – 6 March 2011,  attracting 650 competitors participating  from 60 nations and the organzers are expecting more than 300 000 spectators to be cheering on the sidelines. A number of events and celebrations are planned for Holmenkollen as well as Oslo city centre, ensuring that this week long event is a memorable and exciting experience.  Conveniently, the organizers have arranged frequet public transport to and from the city centre and Holmenkollen Arena.  7500 spectator tickets have already been sold, which is a sure sign that the event (just over four months away) is going to be one of those can’t be missed happenings in the global sporting calendar!

Red Apple Apartments’  Special Events Department has the experience and expertise to cater for visitors attending major international events. Recently, we were the preferred providers of apartment accommodation for the thousands of fans that flocked to Oslo for the recent Eurovision Song Contest in May 2010. We represent a good selection of comfortable apartments in Oslo, mostly provided by private apartment owners that will  kindly trade a week in the snow for a week in the sun…

This means that if you’re headed to Holmenkollen and Oslo next year, we have a fantastic range of apartments that feel just like home waiting just for you!

From left to right we have Ragnar and Sesselia the founding members, Janine our fantastic Events Manager, then our City Managers and Customer Service team, Rhian, Suzanne and Sylvie, Finance Man Olof and the man who makes all of our online activity happen, Badar.

We would like to think that skills in taking care of apartment owners and clients are much stronger than our artistic ones…

And the good news is that Red Apple Apartments has a fantastic selection of short term appartments in Cannes!

The line up of events for October 2010 includes the trade show for the global entertainment and media industry, MIPCOM 4 – 8 Oct. They say this special event  is unmissable! It attracts 12 000 participants from 102 countries. Next up is the Duty & Travel Retail World Exhibition After long days and nights of networking, we know that there’s nothing better than returning to the comforts of home. And Red Apple offers apartment accommodation that is unmissable too.

We recently added this Cannes apartment, located in Le Suquet with a slendid ocean and harbour view. It also happens to be just five minute’s walk to the congress venue!

Easily come home to this apartment after a long congress day!

Sea views in Le Suquet

We have more apartments which we’re sure you’ll appreciate. They’re all ideally situated, comfortable, fully equipped and well priced. Red Apple Apartments offers a range  to choose from luxury penthouses to this humble (price starts at 87€ a night!), sunny studio in Cannes Old Town:

Practical space to cook and dine

Sweet sunshine dreams

We think a pre-winter break is a pretty good idea and Cannes, a pretty sunny destination! Why not combine your business and leisure travel? Cannes is the kind of city you can do that in.

And remember to book an apartment that feels like home soon, because they’re in hot demand.

So now it’s time to talk hospitality! We’re not saying you need to rush out and employ a butler and Michelin starred chef for each apartment (although this would be fabulous). Things as simple as a map with a green dot indicating where the nearest supermarket to the apartment is, or fastest walking route into town can have the same impact to the tired traveller who’s just arrived.

At Red Apple HQ we deal with a wide range of people, from single business travellers or large groups of friends to small families with new born babies. Diverse as they all may be they have one thing in common: they saw your apartment on our site and loved it so much they booked it! When they arrive they will no doubt be curious and once the coats have been hung up and the suitcases dumped, the cupboard crawl will begin. Therefore it’s important to ask…

What can we find in your cupboards?!

Each apartment owner gets a copy of the Owner’s Handbook as soon as their apartment goes live. In here is the usual blurb suggesting that kitchen equipment, cleaning supplies and so forth should be included but have you thought about the following?

- coffee and tea. It’s an international phenomenon, a warm cup of either liquid is always welcome first thing in the morning, especially if the previous day was spent travelling. Most of our apartments come with coffee makers or kettles so some coffee granules and tea bags would complement these perfectly. (However if your guests are British you can probably save yourself a few Euros as we guarantee they’ll be travelling with their own boxes of Tetley, PG or Typhoo)

- washing powder. If your apartment is favoured by the short term guest and also happens to come complete with washing machine,  invest in a large box of laundry detergent so if your guest gets caught short they don’t have to go out and buy a whole new box just for one wash. Large boxes of detergent last for ages – think of them as an investment!

-toilet roll. We’ll leave this item to speak for itself.

-tips and tricks. Where’s the best place to order take away from? How far is the nearest family friendly restaurant? Is there a bakery around the corner that your guests cannot afford to miss? Your local knowledge is worth so much more than what the guide books write about. Just think of the amount of people who include “oh and we found this great little place…” in their post-travel tales.

-local transport. We’re not suggesting you plan every single route from town to the apartment and back for the guests, but maybe a list of useful bus numbers, taxi companies and any other pointers about public transport or tickets can be worth more than gold.

-anything else? One of the Red Apple team came back from a long weekend  this morning and told us with great enthusiasm how the apartment owner had put little phrases in the city’s language (Hungarian in this case) around the place. Does your city have any special dialect words your guests could use to their advantage? Are there local recipes your guests should try? Can you think of the one thing you always love to do when you’re in the area?

When in Rome… (or Helsinki, Reykjavik, Stockholm…)

Ok, the Bella Center may not be the most attractive of buildings, but why not take a look inside one of our favourite Ørestad apartments instead? You’ll soon forget any conference room settings once you pour yourself a glass of wine in this kitchen.

As well as this beautifully designed, fully equipped kitchen, that’s not all our CPH0168 apartment has to offer.

Perhaps the reason why Copenhagen is one of our most popular destinations is the fact that Danes just know how to please when it comes to providing luxury and style hand in hand.

If Ørestad couldn’t get any better, we’ll let you in to a not so well kept secret. It’s perfectly sandwiched between Copenhagen and most of Southern Sweden so if corporate activities get too much, in less than an hour you can be in Ystad, home of Mankell’s Wallander or better still Lund, home of Red Apple Apartments.

Come to think of it, in less than an hour the Red Apple team could be in this apartment…

As someone who has been to Copenhagen many a time but rarely ventured from Strøget – Europe’s longest pedestrian shopping street – spending the weekend in a Vesterbro apartment opened up a whole new side to Copenhagen that otherwise would have remained untouched. Tell me now if you can think of anything more wonderful than a freshly brewed cup of coffee and a still warm pastry from one of the many street cafes non-tourist Copenhagen has to offer. Or how about the finest Smørrebrød money can buy and not a novelty viking hat in sight? Still not convinced? Then why not experience it for yourself! Red Apple Apartments is now offering you a last minute deal to Copenhagen between 12th and 16th September.

We’re taking 30% off the price of our beautiful CPH1508 apartment, so for €364 you could spend four nights with one other person,  in Copenhagen centre having it all. Do the tourist trail whilst living like a local.

To book all four nights of this last minute deal (warm pastry and freshly brewed coffee sadly not included) just email us at bookings@redappleapartments.com with the subject line: CPH1508 Offer – but remember, it’s first come first served.

One of the things that makes us unique is that our customers pay for their entire stay at the time of booking with a credit card (or occasionally by bank wire transfer). The intention of our website is to bring guests and apartment owners together in a place where they can make safe transactions. For customers, this means that their money is always coming to a registered company and not just some property owner (or someone pretending to be a property owner). If there is a change in plans, the money can safely be refunded or applied to a new reservation. It also means that guests don’t have to deal with cash or local currency upon arrival in a new city.

Another reason that we are a safe company to do business with is that we are real people working in a real office ready to answer your real phone calls and emails. You can see all of our smiling faces on our website and one of us will personally answer the phone when you call or if we are busy assisting other customers, we will return your call as soon as possible. We know that many people feel that purchasing something through the Internet is risky, so we do everything we can to earn your trust by being as real as we can. We also get to know all of our owners personally either on the phone or face-to-face at the apartment if we can. If any owner is unreachable by phone or email, we will refuse to do business with them.

Of course we’d like to offer apartments on our website that seem too good to be true–all companies should. But we want the quality of our service and the selection of apartments we chose to list to seem too good to be true. The old advice remains true…if it seems to good to be true, it probably is. We strive to be that good, but we encourage all our customers to take the guess-work out of apartment booking and use our website to find the best properties with the best service in the cities we operate in. If you are ever in doubt about an apartment offering, feel free to call us for re-assurance. We also like to remind our customers to never ever send money through Western Union or other transfer services directly to a property owner.

Use our website and use our dedicated staff and book your next apartment with confidence!

We’re still too busy to celebrate properly but we can all enjoy these milestones:

• Red Apple Apartments currently offers 817 apartments in 33 cities throughout Europe.
• Red Apple Apartments employs a staff of 8 highly qualified professionals representing 6 different countries.
• Red Apple Apartments has the biggest supply of privately owned self-catering apartments in Copenhagen and Reykjavik and we’re on our way to being the biggest in all the Nordic capitals.
• Red Apple Apartments helped hundreds of guests find accommodation during some of the biggest events in Europe, like the COP15 Climate Conference, the World Outgames,  and the Eurovision Song Contest

We can’t even count how many thousands of guests we’ve served or how many phone calls and emails we’ve personally responded to in the past 24 months, but believe us when we say it’s a lot. And we’ve also been having  a lot of fun!

Thanks for your continued support as we grow into the very best apartment booking and service company on the web. We think we’re pretty big now but just wait until we’re all grown up!

So, it was no surprise to learn that a Lonely Planet author recommended these apartments highly after a recent stay in Tallinn Old Town, saying:

“Others are larger or more impressively designed, but this one has a special feel of its own. Located on one of the Old Town’s most picturesque streets, the slightly hilly, curved Pühavaimu, this split-level apartment boasts a lovely balcony (the view’s not great, but it’s a balcony!), a particularly serene and feng shui bedroom and an extra smaller bedroom. Easily accommodating three persons, this charming place blends traditional wood (even the bathtub panelling!) and limestone with modern elements for a calm, satisfying result.”

We dare you to challenge the LP and book yourself a stay in one of these Old Town apartments and see if they live up to their now significantly more reputable reputations.