First booking - panic!
First booking - panic!
Just got my first booking via AirBNB, for this Saturday! Currently got the main bathroom stripped down due to a fault with the shower so can't start the deep clean. Still not got the welcome pack finished, nor the inventory done. The agency I'm using has advertised it as a 'test run', with a discount, so hope they will be happy with it. Any advice?
Using one of the online translators, you could compose a brief welcome and how the house works sheet in French. Keep the sentences very simple and at the end, translate it back into English using the same software to see if it still makes sense.
If you're in a holiday area you may find some information in that language in your tourist info office or for that matter some online tourist info may be in multiple languages so you can give them links.
I don't speak Italian but when I've taken a few bookings from Italians / Swiss Italians I've been surprised by how well we've managed to communicate with a bit of effort. If you do a welcome pack (your a holiday cottage?) you can include a couple of typically British items like tea, marmelade and shortbread (always a hit with French people for some reason) and do a brief note in French about the origins. French tea is awful like floor sweepings compared with proper British tea.
People feel welcomed when its obvious a host has thought about them before they've arrived and I'm sure your test run will go brilliantly.
If you're in a holiday area you may find some information in that language in your tourist info office or for that matter some online tourist info may be in multiple languages so you can give them links.
I don't speak Italian but when I've taken a few bookings from Italians / Swiss Italians I've been surprised by how well we've managed to communicate with a bit of effort. If you do a welcome pack (your a holiday cottage?) you can include a couple of typically British items like tea, marmelade and shortbread (always a hit with French people for some reason) and do a brief note in French about the origins. French tea is awful like floor sweepings compared with proper British tea.
People feel welcomed when its obvious a host has thought about them before they've arrived and I'm sure your test run will go brilliantly.