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| ABOUT US |  |
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| Our Company |
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| Red Apple Apartments is a family run short-term apartment agency providing accommodation solutions from just one night to several months depending on individual customer needs. Growing demand from business and leisure travelers for alternative accommodation to hotels has encouraged many individual apartment owners to offer their properties for short-term rent. For customers this increased supply has often meant a lack of consistency and quality making the apartment selection process chaotic and complicated. Red Apple Apartment’s mission is to simplify this process and enable our customers to come to a single place to make all their booking arrangements securely in only a few minutes. |
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| Our ambition is to provide great customer service in everything we do, from the user-friendly design of www.redappleapartments.com to our service people that will always do their best to assist you in any way possible. It is our hope that by doing business with us you will find just the right apartment for your needs: An apartment that feels just like home. | |
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| Our Staff | |
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| Ragnar Saevarsson |  |
| Managing Director |
| ragnar@redappleapartments.com |
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| Ragnar is co-founder of Red Apple Apartments. He has a business degree from the University of Iceland and Master's degrees in Entrepreneurship and International Marketing & Brand Management from Lund University in Sweden. He held several management positions in sales and marketing before starting Red Apple Apartments. He is at home in the virtual world of the internet and has a keen eye for design. He speaks fluent Icelandic and English and has a good grasp of Danish and Swedish. Ragnar is well-traveled and places an importance on health, fitness and recreation in his life. He has two children and lives with his wife, Sesselía Birgisdóttir, in Lund, Sweden. |
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| Sesselía Birgisdóttir |  |
| Marketing Director |
| sesselia@redappleapartments.com |
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| Sesselía is co-founder of Red Apple Apartments. She has two Master's degrees—International Marketing & Brand Management and Managing People, Knowledge & Change—from Lund University in Sweden. She worked for many years in the publishing industry in marketing and sales and brings her creative skills to Red Apple Apartments, where she also exercises her talents in public relations. She lives in Sweden with her husband, Ragnar Saevarsson, and has a daughter and stepson. She divides her time between work, family and travel—sometimes doing all three at once. She speaks fluent Icelandic and English and some Swedish and Faroese. She has made several attempts to learn Spanish and has sincere hopes to get it down one day. |
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| Jennifer Pemberton |  |
| Communications Manager |
| jennifer@redappleapartments.com |
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| Jennifer is from the United States and holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing. She has taught writing and literature to university students in the U.S. and China and serves as our web editor and writer, among her many tasks at Red Apple. She has worked as an editor for university publications, a history magazine, and an expedition travel company. Her work as a travel writer has taken her to the Antarctic and Shanghai, where she worked on writing an online travel guide to China. She has recently moved to Sweden, where her husband is a Master's student at Lund University. She is passionate about travel and the outdoors and is an avid camper and backpacker. She speaks English fluently and knows the language intimately. She also knows some basic Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and she can say hello and thank you in at least 15 other languages. |
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| Lyazzat Salikova |  |
| Customer Relations Manager |
| lyazzat@redappleapartments.com |
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| Lyazzat has a Master's degree in Entrepreneurship from Lund University in Sweden and her business ideas and customer relations skills are valued at Red Apple Apartments. Originally from Kazakhstan, her knowledge of the global community comes from working for the United Nations and several U.S. government development agencies. She has lived in the U.K., Germany and Indonesia and her passion for travel has taken her to over 30 other countries. She is fluent in Russian, English and Kazakh and picked up quite a bit of German. Her Russian enables her to understand many Slavic languages and she hopes to add Swedish to her list soon. She lives in Sweden and, when she's not touring Europe on the back of her husband's Harley, she enjoys the comforts of home—reading, cooking and relaxing. |
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| Our Website |
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| Our website is constructed with the intention to make it simple and fast for you to search, select, book and pay for one of our listed apartments in just couple of minutes. Information about individual apartments is provided on a single page so you have all the information you need in one place to make your decision. All listed apartments are complemented by high quality photographs, detailed description and an interactive map of the location and the surrounding area. | |
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| We also include useful city overviews and tourist information for every city we service and maintain blogs for each city, keeping up with current events and providing our customers with up-to-date city information. | |
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| We hope you enjoy our new website which was launched in March 2008. Suggestions for improvements or other comment regarding our website are welcome at info@redappleapartments.com. | |
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| Red Apple Apartments operates in accordance with EU-laws and regulations about electronic commerce. | |
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| Our Apartments | |
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| Our preferred partners are selected apartment hotels and apartment owners. We have personally met with all our partners and viewed all listed apartments to ensure that quality and services are maintained in line with our customers’ highest demands. This personal relationship makes it possible for us to be more flexible when it comes to your special requests. | |
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| We offer both self-catering and serviced apartments in convenient locations. Our wide selection allows you to choose between different neighborhoods to enable you to be located exactly where you need to be, and our variety in apartment sizes and amenities makes it possible to fine tune your selection within a chosen neighborhood. | |
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| Our listed apartments are all private and they all have a fully equipped kitchen or kitchenette with a microwave, fridge, freezer, oven, tableware, and toaster; TV, iron and ironing board; bathroom with shower and/or bathtub, toilet, hairdryer, towels; and bed linens. All apartments have wireless internet connection. | |
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| On our web site you will find three main types of apartments: | |
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| Self-Catered Apartment | |
| Self-Catered Apartment is generally situated in a residential neighborhood and is cleaned before and after your arrival. Staying in a residential neighborhood enables you to experience the city like a native, where the local grocery store or dry cleaner is usually just around the corner. | |
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| Serviced Apartment | |
| A Serviced Apartment is either an Apartment Hotel or a unique Serviced Apartment in a residential area. Serviced Apartments offer our customers a cleaning service which is usually on a weekly basis but can be more frequent if negotiated with our supplier. | |
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| Hotel Apartment | |
| A Hotel Apartment usually has a 24-hour reception, which can provide concierge services and assistance. Hotel apartments often provide a full range of on-site services such as gym, swimming pool, restaurant, and coffee house to name a few. They all have daily to weekly cleaning which includes bed linen and towel change along with other housekeeping duties. | |
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| Our Security Policy | |
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| When you submit a payment to Red Apple Apartments you can be sure that your order is secure and safe. Whether you choose to pay through PayPal, a global leader in online payment solutions, or our direct payment option, Red Apple Apartments will never see your credit card or bank account number. Your trust is of vital importance to us and we have created our website with your maximum security in mind. For more information about PayPal, please go to www.paypal.com. | |
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| Our Contact Information | |
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| Homepage: www.redappleapartments.com | |
| E-mail: info@redappleapartments.com | |
| Phone: +46 763 416 730 | |
| Address: Tornavägen 13, 22363 Lund, Sweden | |
| Company registration: 500902-2480 | |
| VAT number: 90407 | |
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| For Apartment Owners | |
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| If you are the owner or manager of an apartment or apartment hotel and are interested in listing your property on our site for short-term rental to tourists and/or business travelers, please feel free to contact us at info@redappleapartments.com or +46 763 416 730. | |
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