Sunday, July 12, 2009

Gites-with-pools weekly update

It seems that i never have enough time to finish all the work that needed around the gites complex and write more articles for the website.
I have tried this week but it has ment burning the midnight oil.Luckily Tate has produced another well time article on the pretty port of St.Giles Croix de Vie so with my addition of La Tranche sur Mer pages its been a productive week after all.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Vendee Gites

With the season now in full swing now is the time to be thinking about the 2010 season. Enquiries and booking are coming in and hopefully the majority of people will have noticed that the recession has not really affected them that much and indeed in many cases they are now better off with the reduction in mortgage rates, the decrease in fuel price and to a lesser extent food prices.
Many holiday makers left it too late this year and found that the best properties had gone, so this might in courage them to book earlier, we hope so.
It is time to check our advertising to see which worked and which did not. There was a noticeable difference between the top players with several of the usual top performers sadly found lacking this year. It was also noticeable that the larger Gites were more difficult to let, it seems the larger families and groups were having problems.


On a different topic we have added more attraction in the Vendee to the site including the Museum Automobile at Talmont St. Hilaire, Museum du Coquillage, Atlantic Toboggan and the L'Aunisceane water park at la Trenche sur Mer.
More will be added this week.