Foreign Perspectives

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Although many people concentrate pretty much exclusively on online advertising, there’s still a place for print based advertising.

It’s a very different medium though. Not only is it expensive, but you’re usually pretty limited in the amount of content that you can have and whilst it has a long lead-time, it’s quite time-sensitive too. It’s easy to pay over £500 for just 100 words and a photo. Similarly, whilst your ad may only be on the shelves for a few weeks, you sometimes need to have it with the publishers over 3 months in advance.

However, it does work well for some people and because of that I’ve covered it in quite a comprehensive article over on our listings site blog.

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That’s the rather peculiar comment of some Germans who stayed with us.

Since German is a distant relative to the English language, English is much easier to speak for them than French and therefore we always start off in English with any German guests (learning German is close to the top of our “to do” list at the moment). Once we recognise where guests come from we try to speak to them in the most appropriate language at our command and we’re very confused by the comment of these non-French speaking Germans that stayed with us a few weeks ago.

OK, sometimes people like to practice their French on us but these people admited to not speaking any French!

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Whenever you’ve a peak of bookings, you’re sure to have a peak of cancellations too.

Today for instance is a public holiday here which means, among other things, that the buses aren’t running. So, right on cue, we received a call this afternoon from someone who can’t reach us today. Since the cancellation conditions state that you need to cancel one day in advance, this would normally mean that we’d be billing him for the room tonight but we managed to pick up another booking for his room so he gets off without paying.

As there’s also a bank holiday on Monday, we’re pretty full at the moment and have just found out that the above guest doesn’t have any transport of his own and that a part of four walkers is coming to stay on Saturday night. That leaves us with five people checking out on Sunday who we now know don’t have any transport until Tuesday as there won’t be any buses or taxis on either Sunday or Monday.

I suspect that both lots may want (well, need) to stay another couple of days.

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