Holiday rental listing sites with FREE advertising for gites in France (and a couple of paid recommendations)
Would you like to advertise your rental property in France without getting out your credit cards to pay a hefty bill first. Many sites allow this by the use of other advertising on their sites - typically by selling associated services, such as car hire or advertising space?
There are many sites that offer free advertising for your gites, the majority of which simply never deliver the customers that you need. But many expensive paid sites also fail to deliver results. The purpose of this page is to identify those sites where we believe a free advert is worth the effort. The sites listed have options where you can list a property free, or have a free option, or have no need for payment at the time of adding your property.
Below that we then suggest a couple of paid listing sites where you might like to advertise your property.
France This Way
I hope you have already added your property to this site. See Advertise a Gite for full details. (OK this is our own site, you can't blame us for including it! Free listings are sometimes available.)
Recommended Free Sites
france4families Popular site, you can have a link to your rental property added for free to a map of the region where it is found
gitesdefrance.info Another promising new site, also requires a link back from your own website. Selective, and only intends to list 400 properties.
travel-library.com advertising is kept free for property owners through the use of other advertising on the site
rentability.com A new site that looks very promising. Adding a property is free, with a charge then being made for each booking enquiry received - currently £1.50 per booking, with a ceiling of £75 per year.
If you want to reach a very wide audience including the USA try the
free trial* and discounted price offer from
HomeAway Vacation Rentals
- you get listed on four leading holiday rental sites
*customers can receive a 100% refund of their HomeAway subscription for any reason and at any time during the first 90 calendar days following the date of purchase.
Also consider....
The following listing sites also offer free advertising for gites and appear to generate satisfactory results so you might like to consider listing with them.
(If you have, or know of, a free holiday listing site which can deliver the results - please let us know, along with the reasons the site should be included)
Overall
Follow the list above, total cost including paid options is about £300 per year (mostly for the homeaway listing), and you should be well on your way to getting plenty of bookings! Remember to monitor which sites send you enquiries and bookings so you can modify your listings next year as required.
