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P2tent - how much did it cost you?  Sometimes these cleaning deposits are quite high - but from my son's experience as a Canvas Holidays courier sometimes mobiles are left in a filthy mess so you can see why sites want to charge.  However, if you had an argument then it's hard to see what you could do 'after the event' - perhaps you could have taken some photographs and take it up with the local Syndicat d'Initiative (Office de Tourisme), who do sometimes intervene in these sorts of cases.

Friends, staying at a house in the Lot, had a series of serious complaints, and they were taken up by the Syndicat d'Initiative, and the owner told that he couldn't take bookings for his house until the problem areas were remedied.  Perhaps even the threat of mentioning it to the local Syndicat might do the trick for anyone else having a similar problem.

Quote: Originally posted by Berriow on 06/8/2012

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We've stayed in cheap hotels in all sorts of places in Europe and Asia - some of them really cheap - and never dreamed of cleaning the room ourselves. The same goes for  B&B's in UK, static caravans in Australia, and motels in New Zealand. Where does this idea of doing one's own cleaning come from ? Not my idea of a holiday.  

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