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Last week we had a couple arrive on Saturday. They rang me within an hour of their arrival to say that they couldn't work the tv. They had rung our house managers, but had a strange response (old person saying i don't know why you are ringing here), so they had contacted me. I tried to contact the c...

Welcome to the forum. I have always found visitfrance to be good for B&B, also chambresd'hotesfrance.com (these are very cheap). We also get quite a few from being in the local tourist office and they network with other tourist offices. I tried your ref for OD, but it didn't come up with anythin...

Beautiful renovated large Bourgoise house situated in a quiet village with a bar, restaurant, shop and school. Renovated to a high standard and keeping many original features. Four ensuite bedrooms, large living room and dining room and an kitchen with oak units and granite worktops. Four working ch...

My husband and I are guilty of thinking we could live the dream. We moved to France in March 2007. We owned our house outright but got a 50,000€ mortgage and with some of our own money we set about renovating our house to do B&B & holiday rentals. With our small mortgage we could have 'got b...

Hi Sammy Boy I had a look at your ad. Your place looks lovely so I think it must be your advertising. I cannot stress how important it is to have your own website for prospective guests to get more details. I used webs.com it can be free and very easy to use. My french version was completely free as...

This month I have had 315 page views on OD, from their site I have had 4 enquiries and 3 of them booked. I can't say how many of them came to our website and enquired direct from there as I don't bother with those figures. From sept-dec 2009 I had an average of 120 views per month but no direct enqu...

Hi Sammyboy I too am in Deux Sevres. I advertise with Visit France and I get a good number of enquiries and bookings from them. This year OD has also done well, but in my first year I paid for other sites and I am afraid you have to pay for them to find out if they work for you. Do you have your own...

I have just had a mad January, lots of enquiries from OD and VisitFrance. and 5 bookings, one for 16 days in the big house at the end of August. So I am very pleased with OD, and glad I never renewed with Chez Nous and HR.

And we have put our prices up by 15% and no one has asked for a discount

We have had quite a few last minute bookings for november. The rest of winter is empty but we may get some more last minute ones. Hopefully

What I never get is, what would happen if you don't send anything back?

Recieved to today from the above 'agents' Am i right to think they are scams? Posted one below. The other one has even worse english. Why are they offering to pay by credit card? Surely I could keep their deposit if they don't turn up!! Hello I like to make a reservation in your facility for 2 doubl...

Hi Brenda

Did u pay to go on this site? i did a search and found them hard to find unless i googled 'bed breakfast europe'.

I've just signed up. So will see how it goes.

Hi there I have a 1 bed cottage and 4 bed maison borgeoise with a pool in the deux sevres and I am going to be in the UK from end Oct 2009 to April 2010. We will be based in Bridlington in a small place but would like to get away now and again to meet family etc. We are willing to consider anything ...

We hired a van in Grantham to bring all our stuff to France. I think they were called 'global' but they were based at Alma Park Industrial Estate. We hired a 7.5 tonne truck and came freight on the ferry. Much cheaper than paying someone else if you have lots to move.