Comments on: Taxe de sejour

By: Boris

Boris — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:42:38 +0000

Wendy, I noticed a couple of days ago that Bergerac town pay Ryanair a significant grant for operating to the town, amounting to about 10 euros for every passanger thay bring in. Presumably it’s the same on some other cheap flight routes.
The irony is that one local council is plased to pay for visitors to be brought to our region, while the smaller local councils such as our own make us pay for bringing tourists to the region, via the taxe de sejour.
Something’s not right somewhere! Either pay visitors to come or make them pay to come but doing both seems illogical.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:12:51 +0000

I’m with you and I’ll bring the matches !! Our taxe sejour has been increased from 211€ to 670€ this year – what am I getting for it – nothing.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:53:26 +0000

I certainly hope not!
You would have to register a new domain name:
francethatway.com

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:40:13 +0000

Every little support helps – great oaks from small acorns etc. Even Joan of Arc started out as a young country girl with a mission, and ended up telling the King what he should do.
Although getting the English thrown out of France and then being burned at the stake weren’t quite the outcome I was hoping for myself.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:59:50 +0000

Go for it Boris!
I’ll be cheering you all the way – though I doubt you’ll hear me at a range of 500 miles! God knows we all need something to cheer about.
If I must be serious – it all sounds ‘normal’ for France to me.
Good luck,
Tony