Saturday 13 August 2011

Holiday Homes and Service Apartments for Family Holidays

While planning a vacation, the thing that pinches the most is the hotel bills. Sometimes, the per-night charge of a hotel is more than your monthly grocery bill. And thus, it so happens, that the enthusiasm with which you had started planning for your family vacation, goes down the drain. I think we all have experienced this feeling some or the other time in our lives.

But not anymore! With the concept of Holiday Homes and Service Apartments gearing up in India, it has become very economical to plan a holiday with the entire family. These Service Apartments are fully furnished, clean & comfortable, and provide for a fully equipped kitchen. So if you are the sort of person who does not like to eat out much or want to save money on food, you can prepare your own meals.

Most of these apartments have common entertainment facilities in their vicinity. To have a virtual tour of the service apartments and holiday homes available, you can visit www.nievaworld.com

NievaWorld portal has extensive listings of service apartments and holiday homes that are very well located. For example, our Goa Holiday Home is located near the beaches, so that you can sit on the beach side for hours without worrying about the late hours. And our Manali Cottage is near the Mall, so that you can roam around in the Mall after touring the whole day. 

The Apartments available are in different sizes too. Like if you want to have a 2 bedroom apartment or a 3-4 room apartment, the options are available. Have an intelligent holiday by choosing a holiday home for your stay. I am sure you  can think of much better ways you can use the money you save by staying in a holiday home.

Wednesday 10 August 2011

How are service apartments useful to Corporates

How will you feel if you go outstation for a business trip and after spending an exhausting day in office, when you reach your service apartment, and you are welcomed with a fully cleaned room, your bed made and room dusted, a comfortable sofa waiting to be occupied and a kitchen with hot cooked meal in it. Wonderful, isn’t it? Will you not thank your company to take care of you by providing you a housing facility that services itself? And will you not feel happy to be part of such a caring company? We are sure you will.

At Nieva World, we understand the stress the corporate employees undergo and according help the corporate select a service apartment for their employees that are comfortable and cost effective. Most of our service apartments have house-keeping and maid services and laundry facility. There is also free internet facility available in the rooms. Our service apartments are fully customized, so if there are any services you do not require or additionally require, that can be taken care of. 

A dining out facility is available in case a business dinner needs to be arranged for. 

There may be times when the employee accompanies his/ her family. All our apartments are well connected and well located. We provide for transport facility also, should that be needed. Some of the apartments have common areas like swimming pools and activity room to entertain them.

NievaWorld team ensures that each service apartment listed on the portal is authentic and provides excellent quality services. NievaWorld portal lists fully furnished service apartments in all major cities of India, namely Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi,  Kolkata, Noida, Mumbai and Pune. 

Our quest is to provide you with the best alternative to costly hotel rooms, while at the same time we try to make you feel at home. So whether it is for a few days or for few months, for single person stay or for family stay, NievaWorld has all kinds of furnished apartments available that are comfortable, homely and cost effective.

Sunday 7 August 2011

Holiday with college friends in Pondicherry

Last summer I went to Pondicherry with my college friends. We were six girls and our target was to spend more on shopping and roaming around and less on hotel stay and food. But our parents would only allow if we were staying safe. 

My father’s office always books a service apartment for him when he goes for business tours. His secretary told me that she always books from NievaWorld. The portal lists economical, comfortable and safe apartments. So I went on www.nievaworld.com and booked a 3-room holiday home for myself and my friends. And since the apartment was listed on NievaWorld, my father was assured of the safety.

Our holiday home was fabulous, clean and very well located. We were all jumping with excitement once we were in. The reception staff was very helpful, they told us what to beware of and who you can trust. They guided us about the best places to visit and also the nearest place we could get our groceries. Once we got our groceries, we were sorted for our weeks stay. 

And the amount of fun we had, cooking our food, roaming around, dancing, playing and what not. We were on our own and relaxed. After our four torturous years of engineering, I think we all needed it. That week brought us closer to each other. And because our Pondicherry holiday home was so cheap and we were doing our own cooking, we managed to extend our stay too. 

Our place was near the Paradise Beach and so we spend a lot of time playing on the beach and engaged ourselves in the daring water sports. We were all really in paradise. How those 10 days past away we only realised when they were over. I think our on our back home journey we are had dreamy eyes and trying to relive the 10 days and trying to secure as many memories as we could. 

Friday 5 August 2011

Service Apartments helped reduce Company Costs

I work in the admin department of my company. We have offices across India and so people keep on coming to Mumbai (our head office) for meetings quiet often. 

In one of our quarterly budget review meetings we found that the cost of the stay of people coming and staying in hotels was quiet a lot. And so it was decided to find a solution to reduce the cost under this head. So while researching, I came on to www.nievaworld.com. The site had listings of various service apartments available in Faridabad, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. The apartments are very diligently listed and are available in all budget ranges.

I chose a two bedroom apartment which was near our office building and within my budget. I wanted to experiment this option for a quarter, so that I have some solution by the next quarter’s review meeting. 

So I went ahead and booked the serviced apartment for a quarter. And by the end of the second month I was amazed to see a 20% drop in the amount. The apartment was near our office building, so it saved local travel cost. Since I had booked two bedrooms, two to four people could share it, that save the additional room cost. We hired a cook, who cooked for the guests.

Even the employees were happy. They were provided with facility of free sauna and a swimming pool. And they were getting home cooked meals, which saved them from the outside food. 

There was another thing. The service apartment was booked for three months, so it also saved my admin assistant the task of booking the room each time someone was coming or rescheduling the booking if someone cancelled. And then there were times in peak seasons when we did not even get hotel bookings. But with Service Apartments, it was for us to keep for the whole quarter.

So now we only opt for Serviced Apartments. And we have an apartment not only in Pune but also Delhi and Mumbai. Thanks to www.nievaworld.com, we got a good deal too. I think it is a wonderful concept. Saves us so much of headache.

Tuesday 2 August 2011

Service Apartments in India

Service Apartments or Serviced Apartments are gaining massive popularity in India, especially in the big cities like Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. These apartments serve as a very economical option for those who go outstation on short trips and want to save on the high cost of hotels and motels. As a concept, Serviced Apartments are very prevalent in western countries.

So what are Service Apartments? These are basically fully furnished units that are made available to people on rent for a short duration. These apartments cater for all things a family or individual might need to make a place foreign to them/ him into their/ his home for as long as they/ he stay(s). Some of the things provided include a television with cable connection, fully equipped kitchen, iron, hot kettle, micro wave, and other things of necessities. And you don’t have to worry about plumbing or electricity, etc. 

Let me explain the concept with an example. Suppose person based in UK needs to go to Delhi on official assignment for say two months and wants to bring along his family. To stay in the hotel will turn out to be a very expensive option for him if he bears the cost of stay (his family being with him) or even for the company if they agree to bear the cost of their stay. So here a much cheaper alternative is service apartments. The expat and his family get to stay in a fully furnished accommodation for the two months, which serves to them as good as a home. And they can cook as per their wish as taste. 

At some places the management provides certain common facilities like swimming pool, gym, sauna, pool table, etc. These facilities act as an added advantage for the people staying in these apartments.

Who all benefit from Service Apartments (not exhaustive list):
  1. Tourists
  2. Expats
  3. Repatriates
  4. Corporate employees on intra-state assignments
  5. People renovating their houses
  6. People on vacation
www.nievaworld.com is a web portal where you can find information about all the serviced apartments available in Faridabad, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. You can view all features and services provided and select your ‘home away’ as per your budget.