Holiday France Direct Property Owners Area

Welcome to the property owners area of our website where advertisers can log into their personal pages and owners interested in finding out more about Holiday France Direct can read about advertising with us and sign-up online.

Established in 1997, Holiday France Direct is Brittany Ferries’ deal direct letting service.

With a growing demand for deal direct holidays, particularly in the current economic climate, having a second property in France can provide you with a valuable source of income.

With Holiday France Direct, letting your property couldn’t be easier. As a deal direct service, we look after all of the marketing whilst you manage your bookings. This means we handle all aspects of the website, brochure and promotion whilst you deal with your rental enquiries and bookings – giving you complete control over your pricing, letting dates and your guests.

Holiday France Direct features a wide range of self-catering and B&B holiday rentals throughout France, plus a selection in Spain and Portugal. Holidaymakers can search for properties either on this website or via our comprehensive brochure. On making their selection, holidaymakers contact property owners directly from their own individual advert.

For You

- Reassurance from working with a well-established specialist in the French letting market

- No restrictions on how you manage your property – you choose letting dates, pricing and guests.

- No agency commission to be paid

- A wide range of advertising options at competitive rates – all inclusive, with no hidden extras. Plus, receive advertising loyalty, and multiple advertising discounts

- Unlimited access to Holiday France Direct travel rates – 20% off Brittany Ferries’ vehicle and passenger fares throughout the year

- Join Holiday France Direct now and receive one return (off peak) Channel crossing for just £75 for a car plus all passengers (£150 on our Santander routes if your property is in Spain)

- Free registration to our Property Owners Travel Club – worth up to £100

For Your Customers

As a Brittany Ferries company, Holiday France Direct  offers your customers 20% off ferry fares – giving them more reasons to book. Plus, we can also offer them the convenience of booking travel insurance and port hotel stopovers with us.

Website and Online Marketing

The website is continuously updated and worked on both for content and for search engine optimisation. It offers a full, easy-to-use search function, categorising properties based on a number of factors such as activities and services.

As well as marketing properties, the site is also a comprehensive guide for holidaymakers, offering information on all the regions of France, and what they can do to get the most out of their holiday.

The website attracts targeted visitors through peak-time online advertising, and click-through and email campaigns throughout the year.

Unlike other sites, our web advertising rates are all inclusive with no additional charges for incorporating icons and links. Book now at the price of £190 plus vat – your advert will remain online for 12 months.

Your web advert will include:

- Unlimited text

- Main image plus six additional pictures

- Availability calendar

- Rental rates and special offers

- Your holiday/area recommendations

- Contact details including email and web links

- RSS feeds

- Full choice of activity and services searches

Owners Area

Once you sign-up with Holiday France Direct, we provide you with a password to log into your personal area on the website. This facility allows you to:

- Read your email enquiries, keep your advert up-to-date, update your availability calendar, upload new images and add your recommendations of things to see and do in your area that guests will find of interest.

- Add special offers, put late availability offers out on our RSS feed and copy and paste our discount travel banner onto your own website.

- Track your advert’s performance.

Help and Advice

With our easy step-by-step booking form, you can book your web advert online. Plus, your designated property advisor will be on hand to help you review your advert and offer advice on how to get the most from your online advert.

Brochure

Our full colour, high quality brochure features property advertisements in a number of attractive formats and sizes.

Updated annually and distributed each autumn to our ever-increasing database of both previous and potential clients, perfect timing for the following season’s main booking period.

Marketed throughout the year via press and direct mail campaigns, the brochure is superbly presented and user-friendly – a fantastic tool for letting your property.

We offer a 24-hour brochure request service – ensuring enquiries never go unanswered.

The deadline for advertising in the 2011 Holiday France Direct brochure is 1 August 2010. Download a brochure advert booking form

In addition to our expertly designed website and brochure, we invest in a carefully selected range of supporting marketing activities, including:

 - Online

So as to target appropriate visitors, the website is marketed throughout the year by pay per click activity and email campaigns, plus banner advertising at key booking periods.

- Press Advertising and PR

In addition to our investment in press advertising and insert campaigns in major national newspapers, our PR experts also ensure coverage across national, local and Francophile press.

- Direct Mail

As well as annual brochure launch mailings, we utilise our ever-increasing database to communicate regularly to past and potential customers to encourage repeat and new bookings.

- Promotions

We run a popular prize draw promotion for your customers during their stay with the chance to win return ferry travel with Brittany Ferries.

Unlike other letting agents, Holiday France Direct’s rates are all inclusive.

So, whether you select to advertise only in our brochure or online, or choose our money-saving brochure and web combination, you can be sure that you’ll have nothing more to pay.

In addition to our standard advertising rates, we also offer a number of other packages and offers:

- Save 10%                            2-year booking package

- Save 5%                              Earlybird offer, when you book your advert by 1 July

- Save 10%                            When booking two or more adverts

- Save £10                            When you place a travel banner on your own property website

- FREE crossing                   When you recommend a friend and they become a new advertiser

Prices start at £190 plus vat for a one year web advert .

Download our full advertising rates

If you’re ready to sign-up for your web advert now, go to our easy to complete online booking form.  

Ideally you will be on broadband as you will probably need to set aside a good hour to complete the sign-up process. Once done, we will contact you regarding payment (we no longer take card payments online in order to meet latest credit/debit card protocols) and upload your advert to the website. We will also provide you with your password so that you can access your personal pages in the owners’ area.

Don’t forget that we’re here to help with any questions you may have. The Holiday France Direct team can be contacted on 0871 244 1245 or at enquiries@holidayfrancedirect.com