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- Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:51 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Classement for gites
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8925
It's so annoying how tax offices interpret the wording in different ways. I've always declared in box 5NG, but this year - despite producing my certificate from the Mairie declaring me as a meuble de tourisme - my tax office was adamant that this box is now only for meubles de tourisme which are cla...
- Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:30 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: SWFrance unpopular or just saturated
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9959
It's very bizarre - we have our 3 cottages on all the main listings, although we always hope that guests will find us through our website and avoid extra booking fees. Last week, exhausted from cleaning gites and in a moment of madness, I added a €50 cleaning fee to our booking.com listing (thinking...
- Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:14 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: New rule 2017 guest info .....
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3617
There was a discussion about this on LMH over a year ago: http://www.laymyhat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25603 I leave the forms in the gites (there's a printable model online) and ask guests to complete them, nobody has ever complained and it's really just the same as having your passport details co...
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:01 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Bed Bugs & dormice.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6156
- Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:11 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Theft of toilet rolls and tissue box!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4142
- Wed Sep 28, 2016 9:56 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Theft of toilet rolls and tissue box!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4142
Two new rolls and a box of tissues in each bathroom, handwash on all bathroom and kitchen sinks. Never thought of any usage as theft (although now I'm thinking that there must be a thief in my own house - we go through far more than the national average so I may need to start rationing) http://encyc...
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:35 pm
- Forum: France
- Topic: Tax D'Habitation & Fonciere for Gites
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4936
Please will you use the whole words and not initial letters so that I can understand. CSG ? CFE? Crikey, if you're living in France and renting gites, it really helps to know what these mean! CSG (Contribution Sociale Généralisée) is a contribution taken as a specific percentage of all forms of tax...
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:50 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Holiday France Direct
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3445
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 7:50 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Holiday France Direct
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3445
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 7:21 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Holiday France Direct
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3445
Hi Gill - sorry, everyone else is up before me this morning! Same as Bassman and Annedab, I had no problem with multiple listings. I called HFD for advice, and they said that the 3 gites had to be listed separately but that I could make it clear in each advert that they were in a gite complex. Admin...
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:08 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Holiday France Direct
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3445
Hi HelenB - I'd be very happy to recommend you - I've been with them for a year on the Quickbook option and they've brought me 5 bookings this summer. I think that they're sometimes only seen as appealing for travellers by their arrival points (Brittany/Normandy) but from talking to guests, it's as ...
- Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:44 pm
- Forum: B&Bs
- Topic: Sign in Bathroom
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16239
- Tue Aug 02, 2016 7:52 pm
- Forum: B&Bs
- Topic: Sign in Bathroom
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16239
We have signs - hate them but felt it better to install them after a couple of early disasters. They're quite detailed, but we hang them in a pretty frame and use a nice font, centred with a surround. We point them out to guests when we show them round the gite on arrival and press the point then as...
- Sat Jul 16, 2016 10:47 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: OH *insert multiple swear words of choice here* - nightmare!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9082
You're right of course, Nemo - I didn't read the key word: key. I really did read it that (non) communication was a main factor in who got the booking, not that the booking with the second guests had gone so far done the road. Sorry. But it still might be useful for others to know that there appears...
- Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:35 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: OH *insert multiple swear words of choice here* - nightmare!
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9082
Really pleased for you Sam, that everything has worked out okay. Maybe I've got it the wrong way round, but I still read it that the first guests who booked got bumped, and the second guests got the holiday, mostly because the first guests were uncommunicative (and you didn't read the OD e-mail) and...