Our largest house advertises on Gites.fr and has several French bookings starting in April.
Not my market.
We use France Voyages which targets francophones (france/Belgium mainly). We only have one gĂŽte in an area that lacks gĂŽtes, and particularly modern family sized ones, so only need a small amount of marketing and this works fine for us. We were fully booked outside the confinement last year, and have 8 weeks of booking for this year.
It costs us 35⏠a yearâŚ
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any more suggestions please
What does that mean Barbara?
I would like to hear about other medias for advertising
My price range is different.
My choice to create a high end holiday home in a special spot.
needs must when the devil rides 
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Travel Lodge or the SavoyâŚchoices
here we go
Then I think your choice will be staying closed again Barbara. 
I have reservations.
Cancelations can come from clients who travel from any country.
I was closed last year yes because of the virus and because i was seriously ill
There are lots of sites that say they specialise in higher end properties, do a bit of searching and youâll find them - like these ones
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Yes Jane you are close with your coin secrets.
Although I am 100 percent hopeless with techy things i
am good at research and organising.
I am pleased with what I have achieved in life and getting older is no sin
as Mariane Faithful once sang.
So dissapointed that I have been slowed down.
Life to me is about projects
I work with 2 very special agents but most of their clients are UK
based and many of their clients travel from uk.
leboncoin
Thank you but not for me it is great for bargain hunters.
@barbara_deane1 Iâm on Homeaway (now VRBO). You may say itâs not your market position, but bear in mind the sheer size of the organisation, which means it has huge reach and does attract top end properties and guests.
Until 2020 I ONLY targeted the UK market and in fact grumped at them for including my entry (auto-translated) on their (among others) French and German sites since it meant that occasionally I got an enquiry from someone in Europe, which at the time I didnât want to handle (TV only in English, 40 page info pack only in English, prices in ÂŁs so they donât take the exchange rate hit, etc)
By July 2020 all my UK clients had postponed to 2021 and so without much hope I opened up my calendar on Homeaway/VRBO. The phone and my email were red-hot within hours! Dutch, French, Belgian , German enquirers, all desperate to get away. So if you want to target Europe this year they might be a possibility for you.
yes i was with Home Away too once
Thatâs one way of looking at it. I have managed to sell one million euro châteaux through leboncoin - such is their varied readership - but then these properties were indeed a bargain: they should have gone for 2 million!
The point is: people leaf through the site and then refer something interesting to someone else (friend, colleague or family) who they think might be interested.
The downside is that it is purely French. You wonât catch your Dutch or Danish clients through it. For that youâll need to be on VRBO and/or AirBnB.