Frenchleave FAQ

Please note that French Leave Ltd (www.frenchleave.com) is not in any way related to French Leave Magazine

1. Where are frenchleave holiday homes?
This service is for holiday lets exclusively within France. Most travellers intend to stay in a particular region or locality, so frenchleave.com divides its properties into 20 regions of France - Dordogne, Midi and Haute Pyrenees, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Alpes and Rhone, Limousin, Poitou-Charentes, Burgundy, Centre, Loire, Franche-Compte, Paris (a partner site), Champagne-Ardennes, Brittany, Lower Normandy, Upper Normandy, Lorraine Vosges, Picardy and Nord. Access them via frenchleave.com's map of the french regions.
2. What sort of holiday homes are available in France?
Frenchleave.com handles a selection of self-catering rental properties, or gites, from holiday flats and apartments to barns, cottages, houses, villas and even the occasional chateau. They are typically available by the week, turning-over on Saturdays.

3. How much does it cost to rent a gite?
Prices vary through the seasons, but normally range between £200-£600 per week for a gite which accommodates more than one couple - the shared cost is tiny compared to hotels.
4. What facilities can I expect at my gite?
Part of the charm is that every gite at frenchleave.com is totally unique - you can almost certainly find one at a level of luxury that suits your needs. All provide (at least) the basics you need for a self-catering holiday. Some can provide linen, others prefer you to bring your own. Cleaning services can often be added for a small extra fee. Use of facilities such as gardens, swimming pool, tennis court, and even fishing rights are available in a few.
5. Is it complicated to book a gite?
Frenchleave.com makes it as simple as possible - by putting you directly in touch with the owner; no middle-man, no time-lag, no extra paperwork - in fact, no nonsense at all. Most owners will ask for a small deposit at booking time, and require a few weeks advance notice of cancellation. Many are happy to show you around on arrival, and can help you make the most of the French region you will be visiting, with tips from grocery shopping to fine restaurants.
6. How do I put my gite on frenchleave.com?
Please send your details to frenchleave.com via the form provided. It helps us to help you if you can provide plenty of pictures of your gite(s), exterior and interior, to give potential visitors a clear sense of the character of your gite. We can collect these from another website, from e-mail, or lift them from normal photos posted to us. Frenchleave.com limits the total number of gites listed per region to 20, to ensure yours will always receive the attention it deserves.
7. Why does my gite not appear in (e.g.) Google searches?
It does, but it depends on what you type in. We specialise in last-minute searches - try typing in last-minute villas france - and you'll see we're consitently No.1 on Google! Additionally, all frenchleave.com pages are submitted to several main search engines, including keywords to help visitors using other European languages find your villa or gite. The main factor determining a particular page's rank is normally the number of other websites which link to your page. Frenchleave.com recommends all members consider spending a day getting to know tourist web resources for their region, and can advise how best to approach webmasters at those sites to ask them to link to your page.
8. What support can you offer for my web problem?
Frenchleave.com is happy to help members with any difficulties accessing their account, uploading new information and pictures, or linking their availability calendar to their own websites elsewhere. In some cases, we can help with maintenance problems on other websites. We can't solve problems involving the utilities which connect a user to the internet.
9. Standards and Complaints.
Frenchleave.com offers an on-line brochure of private holiday vacation rental properties in France, (referred to as 'gites'). The web site is an on-line magazine only: bookings are made between owners and clients and www.frenfchleave.com cannot accept liability for disputes between parties. Where guests feel that what was advertised on this web site was not matched by what they experienced during their holiday, they are ENCOURAGED to use the feedback form on this site to alert us to such irregularities. www.frenchleave.com reserves the right to remove any property from this web site, entirely at our discretion, should we judge there to be sufficient grounds, in accordance with our Terms and Conditions for advertising.


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