? Ours generally do, and a few of them (usually the older clients) even hand us a copy as they arrive. Not that we’ve had a big enough issue to make a claim, as generally it’s things like ruined towels. The odd bit of broken crokery we ignore, but anything more than that we do ask amd so far no one has quibbled.
Jane, are you guests Brits or mainly French?
Just a thought… about asking for Insurance cover… all who hire the SdF have to provide a copy of their Insurance … no one bats an eye…
Surely this is something that the Renter can easily send through, once the gîte booking is confirmed ???
None of our clients seem to even bother asking the question Stella, they’re more interested in how many bookings they get.
Ah well… if they are prepared to cover all costs themselves… then that is fair enough… hopefully, they make enough profit to pay for replacement liners etc, as and when… 
For the SdF folk have to pay for all breakages/damage and if the sum is considerable it comes via their Insurance… One lot broke the mechanism on the front doors… phew… glad they had insurance, that was a hefty bill.
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Never english. Well one in 6 years. Mainly French, with a sprinkling of belgiums, dutch, german and swiss.
That explains a lot Jane, the French and Belgian renters we deal with have a different attitude to the Brits and normally do a bit of cleaning before they leave.
No.
No pay no gite.
We have full payment six weeks before the arrival date so that if there is a problem we have some time to re-advertise.
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Our favorites are the Swiss. Apparently for swiss gîtes the norm is that you must leave them “exactly” as you find them. And they do. And still pay the cleaning fee! Our sole english clients were a pain, so we don’t market to brits at all now.
We just had the same message from Gerard PETITEAU! Very scam-ey I would say.
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