Comments | mnfaure: A moment of your time, please.

mnfaure

A moment of your time, please.

Feb 27, 2009 15:05

I have a friend in the south of France who has a bed and breakfast, and she would like to improve her google results to attract more tourists from around the world. She asked me how I would search for a place to stay on the net. While I know how I would search, I'm afraid I can't really give her unbiased feedback because I've lived in France since ( Read more... )

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frigg February 27 2009, 13:28:09 UTC

With the search results, I searched and then typed in the first 5 hits. Had to delete the "www", because there wasn't space, but they're supposed to be there. :)

Other places I can think of in south of France: Bordeaux, Toulouse and Perpignan (the latter only because Petros is there, so that probably doesn't count, though)

mnfaure February 28 2009, 06:28:20 UTC

Yeah, I didn't list other sites or cities because those two (Cassis and Marseille) are closest to where she is. She'd never come up on the radar of anyone want to stay in Toulouse, etc.

Thanks for the vote

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mnfaure February 28 2009, 06:29:41 UTC

But I appreciate your vote! :D

learningtoread February 27 2009, 16:12:58 UTC

I don't know France well enough to book a trip without a lot of research about it well enough -- I'm definitely a Do-It-Yourselfer. If I had to be in one particular part of the country or one specific city, my initial search terms would be something like, "lodging 'south france'"

I swear by TripAdvisor, too. Like, I don't even mess around with online booking sites like Expedia. I find a hotel with the kind of user ratings and comments I want, and then book directly with the place of lodging. I do a hostel or guesthouse nearly every year, and this is the ONLY way for me to be comfortable. :-D

mnfaure February 28 2009, 07:19:32 UTC

Yeah, I don't like Expedia, either. Being a DIYer myself, it was the only thing I could think of. But, d'oh, I've heard of TripAdvisor before. :P

Thanks.

secritcrush February 27 2009, 17:16:15 UTC

but now I want to go stay in her B&B!

mnfaure February 28 2009, 06:53:40 UTC

It's really nice! And she and her husband are very nice. I'd recommend it; I plan on staying there one of these days. :D

alaskanmermaid February 27 2009, 18:29:50 UTC

When I have searched for B&Bs before, I generally find a local B&B guild or some such and look off of that. I also just google my heart out. If I knew I wanted to stay in a B&B, I probably wouldn't use an online booking page like expedia, because I don't expect them to have little nice places - just big hotels. That said, I use a lot of search engines - expedia, travelocity, priceline, kayak come to mind. France is so small anyway, why be specific to just the south? (said the egotistic Alaska...*cough* LOL)

mnfaure February 28 2009, 07:09:13 UTC

Ah, "guild"! See, I knew I should have made that one of my options and only thought about it last night when I saw my friend. :P

France is so small anyway, why be specific to just the south? (said the egotistic Alaska...*cough* LOL)

But it's dense and so full of history. :P