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- Fri Sep 15, 2017 7:40 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Owners Direct Account Deactivation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4122
Me, I'm fed up with owners misleading people in the filters. I've seen quite a few gîtes stating they have a pool. You have to go right through the blurb to discover that the 'pool' turns out to be the municipal pool in their town. Sorry, but when a property states a pool, regardless if it's privat...
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 3:22 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Letting a Gite in France.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4454
- Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:45 am
- Forum: France
- Topic: Letting a Gite in France.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4454
We're committed to Gites de France but am quite happy with them to be honest - we pay one week's peak rent each year as a subscription then use their online booking engine, which is improving all the time. You pay 8% commission if you set up the bookings or 15% if they book direct. But then they han...
- Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:24 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Important updates to the Owners Direct Booking Platform
- Replies: 102
- Views: 7292
Well that's us stuffed then. I am tied to Gites de France for ten years after they subsidised the creation of our gite, so all bookings have to go through them. So I can't accept online payments. That's AirBnB out, and now HomeAway. HL/TA dried up for me about a year ago - so what's left? Seems the ...
- Fri May 12, 2017 10:56 am
- Forum: France
- Topic: Classement for gites
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8917
- Thu May 11, 2017 12:29 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: 2017 season bookings for LMH´s in mainland europe?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12793
- Wed May 10, 2017 4:20 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Classement for gites
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8917
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:28 pm
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: 2017 season bookings for LMH´s in mainland europe?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12793
We're normally full for summer by now (just north of Paris) but currently we have August and September 2/3 full and nothing in June/July! Holiday Lettings now send no enquiries so we switched to HA and get most of our enquiries through them, albeit French ones via Abritel. UK enquiries have fallen o...
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 2:54 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Pour Les Vacances
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5339
I've just given you another month Hells Bells as I figure it's worth a punt. We seem to be getting more French and Dutch guests now when we used to get 70% UK visitors. I've also renewed with France Voyage - their site is incredible! If anyone else wants to share the love and renew with AIPLV my cod...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:35 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: HA - Have I missed something
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1062
I ended up talking to them on their online chat and the guy explained that if online bookings are enabled there will be a service fee added. So he's disabled that for me. I still don't understand how HA would get their money as I didn't have HA payments enabled; would they have invoiced me for it? ...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:19 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: HA - Have I missed something
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1062
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 11:12 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: HA - Have I missed something
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1062
I've just renewed with HomeAway (getting desperate!) and have had a reservation request for a weekend from them. When I look at the quote it includes a HomeAway service fee. I am on a subscription listing and don't accept HomeAway payments but have selected Credit/Debit cards as my alternative payme...
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:17 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: French gite - enquiries gone!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1098
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 2:20 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: French gite - enquiries gone!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1098
French gite - enquiries gone!
Our gite is in northern France, 2 hours from the channel. We have basically not had any enquiries (bar one) in the last 4 or 5 months! We're listed on HL/TA, HA, Gites.eu, a-gites as well as our own site - all of which have in the past been enough to fill our calendar. This winter and next year, we ...
- Wed Jul 29, 2015 3:08 pm
- Forum: Managing your garden and pool
- Topic: Installing a pool - but not for gite guests
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8207
OK, so I'm getting a clear message I think! You've all taken the wife's side! So, the next question would be; if we had a pool that we shared with gite guests how would restricting the usage work? Would it restrict our usage too ie they have it from 2-5, we have the rest of the time? Or do you say w...