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Help and Assistance

Some advice and tips on using the site as well as a site layout that will take you to all parts of the website.

Rustic Blue Site Map

Last Updated — 05 June 2023

Using the site map below you can quickly see the hierarchical structure of our website and can follow the quick links to any page. You can also hide or show the lower levels to see further details.

Navigation

Navigating to your villa with the villa finder

The villa finder is a quick way to jump straight to the details of an villa - when you know the reference!

You will find the villa finder at the top left corner of every page. This can be used to go directly to any villa page based on the reference code. You may have noted villa reference numbers when viewing the site or may have been given these by our staff when they recommend certain villas.

You can add the villa reference into the box provided. You will also note that as the reference is entered, a list of villa references appears below. If you prefer, you can select the villa from this list or continue typing in the reference. Once the reference has been entered, you just need to press the return key to be taken to the relevant villa page.

In page tabs

These tabs will transport you around the page and get you to what you want to see fast.

Some of the pages on the site have additional “in page” navigation to help take you quickly to the part of the page that you want to see.

These tabs act both like a standard tab, as well as links that drop you down to other parts of the page.

All pages have red upward pointing triangles at the top of each section that will take you back to the top of the page. As well as this there is a “back to top” button that will appear on the bottom right of longer pages that you can use to go back to the top of the page.

Trace your way back with Breadcurmbs

As you go deeper into the site we make it easy to step back with the "breadcrumb" trail at the top of each page.

To help you keep tracks of where you are in the site, we provide a set of breadcrumbs that show you your current position within the site.

You can click on any of these links to jump back to where you came from.

And going forward - or back if you prefer

Working through lists of sections of the site is made more simple with the ever present "next..." link

Throughout the site we provide a means of going forward or returning back to the previous level that you came from. We do not provide a back button as your browser already has this.

These links are “clever” and adapt to the situation that you are currently in on the site. So yes, that does mean that if you have filtered down your list of villas, the “next villa” link will have “adapted” to suit your search.

Images slide shows

When there are lots of good images to be seen, we use slideshows which you can just sit back and watch or take control of yourself.

As our pages are already full of useful information, we have used slide shows to be able to show you additional photography of the villas or the area.These are very simple to use and give you a play / pause button as well as small blue markers that show how many photographs there are and enable you to click through them.

Clicking on a marker will pause the slideshow and it will remain on the selected photograph. You can restart it at any time by re-clicking the play button.

And informative carousel links

Get a brief overview (or even just a picture) and then select the chosen item to see more.

As a graphical way to show information and links, we have included carousels on some of the pages. These can be navigated with the paddles at either end and they link to the relevant page on the site where additional information can be found.

Using Filters

Filtering your villa selection by date

To make finding your villa easier, we have provided the ability to search by the dates that you require.

Start by selecting the duration that you are looking for. As most bookings are made by the week, our search does not allow for less than a week or part week bookings. If you have a more specific duration in mind, you can contact us directly to check on availability and whether the property owner will accept your requirements.

The date picker provides two main functions. If you have a specific time in mind, you can select your start date and end date and the villas that are available for that period will be shown. If you are more open about your dates then you can select a much wider date range and the search will return villas that have availability for the duration you have selected within the date period you have selected. And don’t worry if you don’t fill in the end date, this will just be filled in for you based on your start date and the duration that you have chosen.

To also give you more meaningful results we give you the option to tack a few days onto the start and end date of you search. This means that those villas that have availability “around” the dates you are looking for but not “precisely”, will be shown in your search results. If you are absolutely specific on your dates then you can choose the “My dates are fixed” option and you will only get to see villas that are available for your exact dates.

Filtering your villa selection by villa features

You can select villas with the specific features that suit your needs.

To help you further pinpoint the villa that suits your requirements, there are a number of filters that you can apply. These filters are dynamic and as your villa list shrinks, some filters may become “greyed out” as there are no villas left with this feature.

If you find that your filtering has become too restrictive, you can for example add villas with more or less bedrooms or remove your less important filters to increase the number of villas returned.

Note: Bedroom and Swimming pool filters return you more results the more you select, where as villa feature filters return less villas the more you select.

Finally, you may find that if you change your required dates after you have selected a number of feature filters, that there are no villas available. If this happens then the filters that are causing there to be no villas returned will be highlighted in red. You can remove your less important filters one by one until you get villas returned.

It can be annoying when a page refreshes every time you select something on the page. Your villa list will not be updated until you have finished making your selections and then press the “Refresh” button. This button will not be active until you have made your first selection.

Tip: If you want to test the water, you can select one or two filters and then refresh, view the results and then filter some more.

Saving Villas

Saving your villa choices for later

Just like a shopping basket, you can add your villas as you browse and call them back at any time.

We have included a “My saved villas” feature that allows you to store and review your villa choices at a later date.

To store a villa in your saved villas list you simply click the “save for later” button just under the main slide show on any of the villa pages.

The “My saved villas” button at the top of every page will become shaded indicating that you have villas saved. Your villa list will be available from anywhere on the web site.

Clicking on the “My saved villas” button at the top of any page will open a window that shows you the villas that you have saved. You can remove villas from here if you wish, or you can email the list to a friend. If you use the contact us link from here, the contact form will automatically be filled in with the villas that you are interested in and you can then add your message to Rustic Blue below.

Cookies

Our use of cookies

No Adverts, No targeting, No personal data collection, No need to worry.

We have a very simple strategy to the use of cookies which is that we only use them to make your experience on the website a better one.

We try to keep our website as clean as possible and you will never find flashing adverts being pushed in your face or in reverse, Rustic Blue adverts popping up when you start looking at other sites. We don't like it and we thinking that you probably don't either.

Some sites opt for allowing you to turn off the use of cookies and to continue using the site without them. As our use of cookies is very light, and turning off the cookies would degrade the site, we have chosen to not offer this option. Having given you the details of what we use cookies for, we are sure that you will feel confident that continued use of our website will not impact on you or your personal data. If however you are still not satisfied with our use of cookies, then we would be pleased to handle your enquiry by phone (0034 958 76 33 81) or you can use our contact form and we can call you back or communicate via email. We will be happy to help you with your enquiry in whichever method of communication you are most comfortable with.

Usage One: To help you keep a list of villas that you would like to review at a later date, we allow you to "save for later" any villa. To do this we simply store the villa reference in a list so that when you come back to the same browser you will be able to call up and see the same set of villas. As simple as that.

Usage Two: To integrate with social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, these platforms also use cookies. Without the use of cookies, these useful functions will no longer work, so we have included only the standard code snippets needed for these social media tools.

Usage Three: To help us keep the website running at its best, we need to analyse the performance of the website and the traffic coming to the site. Without the use of cookies, this useful functionality will no longer work, so we have included only the standard code snippets needed for Google Analytics to work.

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