User talk:2globalnomads

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 * Thanks for your help. It is true that the Aywa Guesthouse currently accepts online bookings only through AirBnB, but guests can also book using email and phone, so the place is not just an AirBnB listing. Aywa Tours include a personal, local Omani guide bringing significant added value. Guests are taken to places not accessible by foreigners alone, or even listed in travel guides. That is why I believe both entries are justified. I will undo your deletions. Please let me know if you still disagree, thanks.
 * --2globalnomads (talk) 13:18, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * If they take guests to places not accessible by foreigners alone, you need to specify which places, or at least that fact, in the "content" tab for the listing, because right now, it looks like just a generic tour listing, which is not OK on this site. Meanwhile, please delete the text in the "alt" tab for your hotel listing, which is not an alternate name, and the default address info (postal code, Muscat, Oman). And just how "near" is it to Grand Mosque and Auziba Beach? According to this site's don't tout policy, which you should please read if you haven't already done so (along with WV:Tour, this site's policy on tour listings), hotel listings should include the fact that a hotel is actually next to or right across the street from some point of interest, but not "near" x, y and z, as the geocoding is quite sufficient for readers to determine the distances themselves. Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:32, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I have personally visited a majority of the places you have listed – with a rental car and no tour guide. The only exceptions which might require a guide are the local farm in Mussanah and possibly the overnight stay in Wahiba Sands, if you operate your own camp. In any case your tours should most definitely not be listed with the rental cars, and they should not be listed on the Muscat page because neither of these places is in Muscat.
 * Regarding your accommodation, it appears to be near neither the Grand Mosque nor the beach, the price should be listed in Omani riyals, and the map image should link not to your own server but to an image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. –StellarD (talk) 14:26, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your input, Ikan Kekek and StellarD. I fixed the entries accordingly. Please let me know if there is anything else to do. --2globalnomads (talk) 14:39, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

1 hour's drive from airport
Can you spot the touting in this edit? Yep, it's the phrase "within 1 hours drive from Recife international airport", which is no special selling point of these holiday homes, as compared to others in the same city. Leave out "luxury", too, though you can describe things that the reader would conclude constitute luxury. Thanks. Ikan Kekek (talk) 14:52, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing the entry, I made again the mistake of copy-pasting from website. And thanks for clarifying me what went wrong. --2globalnomads (talk) 16:24, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Definitely don't copy and paste from websites. By doing that you could also be violating copyright. Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:32, 8 January 2017 (UTC)