Nevermind people! Gave up and managed to sort a form straight from the partial view macro file, here it is if anyone else gets any trouble.

@using System;
@using System.Linq;
@using System.Net.Mail;
@{
if (IsPost) { 
    string name = Request["Name"]; 
    string email = Request["Email"];
    string telephone = Request["Telephone"];
    try
            {
            MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
            //var from = new MailAddress(Email.Text);
            mail.From = new MailAddress(email);
            mail.To.Add("[email protected]");
            mail.Subject = "Contact Us";
            mail.IsBodyHtml = false;
            mail.Body = "You just got a contact email:\n" +
                        "Name: " + name + "\n"
                        + "Phone: " + telephone + "\n"
                        + "Email: " + email + "\n";

            SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();

                smtp.Send(mail);

            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {

            }     
    <text> 
      Success! <br /> 
Thank you for your enquiry, you will be contacted by the holiday provider shortly.<br /> <br /> 
    </text> 
    }
} 

<div class="inputForm">
<form method="post" action=""> 
<fieldset> 
<h2></h2>
<div> 
<label for="Name">Name</label> 
<input type="text" id="Name" name="Name" value="" /> 
</div> 
<div> 
<label for="Email">Email:</label> 
<input type="text" id="Email" name="Email" value="" /> 
</div> 
<label for="Telehphone">Telehphone:</label> 
<input type="text" id="Telephone" name="Telephone" value="" /> 
</div> 
<div> 
<label>&nbsp;</label> 
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="submit" /> 
</div> 
</fieldset> 
</form> 

Thanks Nicholas ill have a look at the Formulate if it's a better way of doing things, would have like AJAX rather than POST so no page reload.

You can probably guess i'm no hardcore developer/programmer but i tend to be able to piece things together with some determination!

Thanks

Cool, if you decide to give Formulate a try, here's the TLDR version:

• It supports AJAX by default (shows a thank you message inline on submit).
• All the code you need is in a snippet on this page: http://www.formulate.rocks/render-form
• Here's how you install Formulate: http://www.formulate.rocks/installing
• Here's how you create a simple form: http://www.formulate.rocks/simple-form
• You will have to style the form yourself (though it supports Bootstrap columns/rows by default).
• Here is a tip about SMTP configuration: http://www.formulate.rocks/smtp-configuration
• Formulate can be customized, but you need to be a "hardcore developer/programmer" to do that :-)

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