FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions

1. What a tourist can find on Bedandbreakfastmania.com?
For the tourist, all services available on this online portal are free. Fast and easy to use online catalogue through different research tools: quick or advanced. Each offer is clearly described in detail, completed with pictures, map and booking form directly connected with the innkeeper. It will be offered tourist information, itineraries, events, festivals, and a lot of background material to discover (the magic country of) Italy, its regions and its people. Last minute catalogue is constantly updated.
Newsletter including Last Minute offers, special offers and information to travel to Italy.
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2. How much does it cost to become an associate?
Until 15 of February 2011 registration fee on www.bedandbreakfastmania.com is 125,00 euros + VAT for two years . It’s a great sale (starting from 16 of February 2011 registration fee will be 125,00 euros + VAT for one year). With only five 5,00 euros per month, you can have your Bed and Breakfast displayed on bedandbreakfastmania in an effective, high impact graphic design frame divided into sections.
You can edit your profile any time you desire; you can create a blog about your facility and make it visible to all visitors of the website, you can enter last minute offers, itineraries, events. For any further information about our offer please click here.
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3. Who can register with Bedandbreakfastmania.com?
Registration is not only opened to bed and breakfast inn keepers but also to owners of: holiday houses, apartments, villas, cottages, farms, residences, chalets, bungalows, castles, vintage houses, rooms, farm holidays and room rentals, that want to rent directly to the tourists.
Registration is not allowed to hotel owners or property dealers.
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4. What does Bedandbreakfastmania.com do to promote the website and my structure?
Our staff works daily to grow the visibility and the strength of our brand, in Italy as well as on an international scale.
Some important steps:
- Positioning on the most important search engines, Italian and foreign,
- Reviews and inserts on the major international directories,
- Advertising and partnership with the major Italian and international websites,
- Advertising and press releases on newspapers and specialized magazines,
- Brochure and flyer service.
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5. How can I become a member of the Bedandbreakfastmania.com?
It’s simple. You have to sign up for the website by choosing an e-mail address and a password.
After you complete your registration, you will be able to log in and access to your reserved area at any time, and modify the pages of your structure (one or more).
All visitors of Bedandbreakfastmania.com will see immediately your profile changes.
Join now »
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6. I have signed up for Bedandbreakfastmania.com , but I cannot log in anymore.
There could be a problem in the cookies that might be blocked by your firewall system. We use cookies to give you the chance to memorize login details, so that you must not enter them anytime you access to your reserved area. A cookie is a piece of text stored on a user's computer by their web browser. It is not executable, and it cannot contain any virus.
To login you have to allow cookies in the browser (i.Explorer 6):
tools menu -> Internet Options -> Privacy -> select medium level -> Application
Refresh Bedandbreakfastmania.com home page and try to login again.
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7. I forgot my password. How can I get it back?
To get your data back, including your password, an e-mail will be sent to your e-mail address (the one you gave when you signed up) going on the section "Forgotten Password?" -> "Recover your password"
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8. I cannot register.
Don’t worry. There might be different causes: your password is too short, selected e-mail address is already in our database , incorrect or inactive. Check your data and try again.
If you still have problems, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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9. Do you get a commission percentage?
NO, NO PERCENTAGE. If you desire to request a quote, all you need is to fill in the request form, you will receive an immediate reply in your personal account.
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10. Can you guarantee that my structure will have many requests?
We constantly work hard to make you proud to be an associate to our services. However, we cannot guarantee tourists visiting Bedandbreakfastmania.com are going to make a reservation in your house. Certainly though, you can count on our constant support and you can contact our staff any time you wish.
Together we can figure out if there are some possible improvements to your page. Sometimes, a small change can increase the number of visitors on your personal page.
We have many innovative ideas and we love what we do, for this reasons we know that we deserve your trust.
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11. I have just signed up and entered information about my structure, but I am still not able to see it on the website. Why?
The first time you enter information about your structure, your request is waiting to be processed by editorial office, which will verify if your request is consistent with our terms and condition of use.
This process will take at most twenty-four hours.
After that, you can edit your profile anytime you desire in real time.
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12. Some other structures are before mine. What is the preference selection criterion?
To offer a transparency policy giving all the members the same chances to succeed we use random lines, which means that the structures’ order is RANDOM, changing every hour.
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13. When I try to edit my personal page, an error message appears.
We remind you that for your own security and for preventing non-authorized changes, we have created a protection system that considers your section as “inactive” after a few minutes you are not using it.
For this reason, we suggest to write long texts in a Word document or writing programs, then to log in and copy and paste.
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14. Can I insert my structure in Last Minute?
Of course you can. In your personal page you can activate this option: you can decide what kind of last minute, you can supply a full and detailed description and the duration of the offer. The User will find your offer both on your page and on last minute offers.
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15. How many last minute offers can I insert?
Unlimited. Just keep in mind a last minute offer can last at most 15 days.
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16. Is my annual subscription automatically renewed?
Not at all! Subscription is never automatic. Your confirmation is always required, also after the first year renewal.
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