The online registration process saves on administration costs, and the distribution of information about the courses and the schools online (as opposed to in catalogues) also reduces costs significantly. These [del.] savings are then passed on to the clients. So you can benefit from a superior service at the lowest prices available.

 As far as changes are concerned, the special policies of the individual schools apply. LanguageBookings.com will not charge you an additional fee for changes. We will do our best to accommodate your desired changes. Nevertheless, changes that lower the course price by more than 30% are considered as partial cancellations and a cancellation fee will be applied.

 For most of the language schools the minimum duration for a language course is usually 2 weeks.

 Your personal data will be treated as absolutely confidential. Only the school that you want to enroll with will receive your data. We work with Paypal service to guarantee that all your personal information and credit card data are safe. We handle customer data within the guidelines of European Data Protection Laws and complying with Customer Privacy regulations

 If you are planning to take a course in high season (June-August) it is best to book at least 1 month in advance. However, even if we receive a registration request at very short notice we will always try our best to complete it - and we do succeed quite often.

 No. LanguageBookings.com is an independent registration service. LanguageBookings.com is constantly approached by a large number of schools who would like to be included on our website. However, we select only the best language course programmes. Only recognised schools will be included on our website, ensuring that you will find only the highest quality programmes.

The "Book Now" button on the Shopping Cart's page will take you through a very quick, user-friendly online application system where you have to pay only a deposit as part of your total fees by PayPal or credit card. The Balance should be paid directly to your chosen school by bank transfer prior to your course start date. We strongly recommend to have full fees paid 14 days before the course start date.

LanguageBookings.com does not charge cancellation fee. By making a reservation with a language school / accommodation, you accept and agree to the relevant cancellation and refund policy of that language school, and to any additional (delivery) terms and conditions of the language school that may apply to your reservation or during your stay, including for services rendered and/or products offered by the language school (the delivery terms and conditions of a language school can be obtained with the relevant language school).

Once a language school has been chosen by you and a deposit has been paid upon booking, the language school / host will confirm the availability of the services required and process the booking, at that time you receive a second e-mail with confirmation of your place and bank details to pay the balance of your reservation.

You can find the availability status underneath each the price on the school / host page, however the best way is to ask. If you submit a reservation request and your place is not available, the deposit paid will be refunded.

Contact is handled wholly through the site up until a booking request is confirmed. Prior to this stage you can use Message box to approach schools and hosts. This allows us to provide you with customer service and maintain your privacy.

LanguageBookings.com is a community marketplace built on Trust and Safety that facilitates the meeting of people in real life. By creating a profile you allow other members of our community to learn more about you. This negates the need to repeatedly send information about yourself every time you want to contact a school or host. Please be aware that some schools and hosts may require a completed student / guest profile before they will accept a booking request (check listing descriptions to see if this is the case).

LanguageBookings.com provides you a totally FREE service so you always pay the lowest price in a secure and easy way. LanguageBookings.com does not charge you any additional fees to the price that you would pay when booking directly with the school and in many occation you will obtain even a lower price. We guarantee that you will always be paying the lowest price for your language course. If you find a lower price for the same course we promise to pay you the difference.

LanguageBookings.com is a community marketplace built on Trust that facilitates the meeting of people in real life.

List it

Register in just three easy steps
Advertise your property for free.
Reply to visitors from all over the world asking for details about your place. 

Confirm it

When your guest and you agree on conditions and price of the stay.
You need to ask your guest to proceed to his booking online by paying a deposit which is part of the total fees.
Confirm the reservation request
You will receive guest's complete contact details.

Get paid for it

When the reservation has been made effective, means that the agreed commission has been paid
Finally, when the guest arrivies to your accommodation, he or her will pay the remaining balance.
Host your guest and Enjoy!

Almost anyone can be a host! It's free to sign up and to list your accommodation. The listings available on the site are as diverse as the hosts who list them, so you can post students residences, apartments, entire houses, student hourses, a room in a family homes, rooms in bed-and-breakfasts, hotel rooms, hostels dorms or campign sites. The list goes on and on!

Signing up and creating a LanguageBookings.com account is free! The easiest way to sign up is by connecting with your Facebook account. This will automatically fill out some of your profile, and you’ll get an additional verification.

If you don’t have or don’t want to use Facebook, you can also sign up with your email address to create an account.

fter signing up, make sure to finish completing your listing and as well your profile so that the community knows how awesome you are.

Sign up today at http://www.languagebookings.com/host-signup/. We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our community!

1. Create your profile.

- Sign up with LanguageBookings.com, create a great profile, and upload a profile photo (with your face, noone will rent from your cat!). Build your reputation by getting verified, and hit up your friends for some references.

2. Add your student accommodation.

- Click the blue button to list your accommodation, set your address, and upload photos. Accurately describe your space and select the appropriate amenities to give potential guests a good idea of what your listing has to offer.  

- Add different rooms to a property and set different prices per room per person. Don’t forget to set your calendar availability to make sure guests don’t contact you when the rooms are not available!

- Add a additional services to make sure all your guest needs are met. 

- Check out our tips for creating a good listing.

3. Book your student accommodation.

- Answer messages and reservation requests from prospective guests in a timely manner using the messaging system on the site. Your response rate and search rank depend on it, so don't keep your potential guests waiting! 

- Review your guest once they have checked out. Voicing your experience is an essential part of building our trusted community.

Tips & tricks!

- Check that your listing is visible in the search results.

- Make sure that our emails reach you by setting up your email account to accept messages from info@languagebookings.com.

- In your main photo think about including something distinctive in the image. A visual hook in your photo may help them remember your particular property.

- Think carefully about the written description of your property. After the photographs, it the next thing that people see. You only get one chance to impress, so make what your write as descriptive as possible!

Listing your space on LanguageBookings.com is free, and the benefits to you can be priceless! Not only can you make money, but you are also rewarded with the experiences you gain meeting students from all over the world.

While it doesn’t cost to list your space on LanguageBookings.com, we do collect a commission by the allocation of the nonrefundable deposit (usually between 10% to 45%) of the total service value each reservation you are paid for to cover the cost of processing guest payments and marketing campaigns. For example, if you have listed your property for $100 a week and a guest books one week, the guest will pay $10 to us as prepayment / deposit to secure his place after you accepted the reservacion and you'll get $90 in your pocket for the reservation upon the students' arrival.

 We display a basic indication of where an accommodation is located, limited to the street name and a map of the surrounding area. We withhold its exact street address in order to protect a host's privacy. Guests will only receive it once their booking has been confirmed.

  Hosts need to upload a front face photographs in their profile, photographs for their property and for each of their rooms. We ask hosts to upload a minimum of three photos for each listing, and most of our hosts upload more. If you would like to see more photos of a listing, we suggest sending a message to a host expressing your interest.

 Some listings may be new on LanguageBookings.com or previous guests may not yet have left a review. Listings will gradually acquire reviews over time.

You should present your accommodation in an interesting and informative manner. You will need to upload photos, create a nice title and enter a description of your property. You should also make sure you accurately include details such as price, location, amenities, property type, minimum stay, maximum number of guests etc. Contact details (email, phone, street address etc.) are not permitted in the title, description or house rules.

Yes. It is extremely important that the availability of your accommodation is accurate, otherwise you will have to refuse bookings made for unavailable dates, which could affect your listing's position in the search results.

Your photos should clearly show the rooms in your accommodation that your guests would have access to, such as the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen etc. The better your photos are, the more interested potential guests will be in booking your property.

 We welcome an extensive range of accommodation types, not only apartments and houses. If your property type is not listed on the List Your Accommodation page, please contact our customer support team who will be happy to advise you.

 At Languagebookings.com we want to provide our users with the highest level of security and professionalism we possibly can. Therefore all our hosts listed have the chance to become certified and validate their identity. Host certification means that the hosts send us copies of their IDs, an utility bill and (optional) their Criminal Record Certificates electronically. We compare the documents received with the personal data which the host provided to us for their registration. If the information matches we mark those hosts as certified on our website giving details of whether we have checked the ID only or additionally the criminal record document. The documents themselves will not be shown on the website.

Become a Certified Host! Visit the Trust and Verification section within your profile. 

- You have the option to receive 20% deposit for your bookings.
- Your ad will be displayed at top positions in our listings.
- You create trust and attract more guests.
- You will receive VIP priority in our customer service.
For certification you need to upload the digital copy of a Current (valid) official photo ID, any uitility bill and you must pay a fee of 19.90 Euro ( nosubscription / auto renewal).This is not refundable in case you don't provide the required documents. 

Here are our top 9 tips for enticing visitors to stay in your LanguageBookings property.

1 -  Photographs. In your main photo think about including something distinctive in the image. For example: a painting, or a bright cushion, or a flowing plant and so on. Why? Many unregistered users browse through the site who will only register weeks later. A visual hook in your photo may help them remember your particular property. They can then add it to their favourites once they join the LanguageBookings website.
Also make sure that you upload clear, good quality photos for your property and for each room.

2 - Think carefully about the written description of your property. After the photographs, it the next thing that people see. You only get one chance to impress, so make what your write as descriptive as possible!
Are there sports activities nearby? Golf, sailing, horse riding, hiking etc. What about restaurants, shopping, night-life, beaches? If yes, tell people about it!
If your property is far away from the nearest town, this doesn’t have to be a disadvantage. Inform people of driving times or public transport. Staying in an isolated and quiet property is some people’s idea of heaven. For those who want to get away from it all, point out the benefits of the tranquillity and privacy that you offer.

3 - Become a Certified Host!
- You have the option to receive 20% deposit for your bookings.
- Your ad will be displayed at top positions in our listings.
- You create trust and attract more guests.
- You will receive VIP priority in our customer service.
For certification you need to upload the digital copy of a Current (valid) official photo ID, any uitility bill and you must pay a fee of 19.90 Euro ( nosubscription / auto renewal).This is not refundable in case you don't provide the required documents.


4 - Upon arrival provide to guest  your house rules, fliers for activities, sights and events in your local area or anything else of interest. A simple map of the surrounding area marked with where to buy food, petrol, restaurants will help orientate your guests on their first day.

5 - Do you have contacts in your local area who you could form a mutually beneficial arrangement with? What about providing guests the opportunity for discounts for local activities, or services? You keep your guests happy while simultaneously generating new customers for local businesses, who will then refer people back to you.

6 - Think about what kind of guests you would ideally want? For example: Are you happy to attract guests who are families with children? Or perhaps you only want young international students. What things are on offer in your property or surroundings would attract your ideal guests to you? Once you’ve found the answer to this, include some tantalising text in your description.

7 - The LanguageBookings website is not just a platform to advertise your apartments or home. By making friends with others registered on the site, you have boundless possibilities to make new contacts, with other hosts and with potential guests. Share your tips about being a successful host with other hosts on the site. Get feedback from guests or potential guests as to why they didn’t or did rent your place. Use this information to implement some changes to help bring more guests to your home.

8 - If you haven’t done so yet, get going and register as a host here. Get familiar with our website, browse around and see how it works and make sure to update your calendar regularly so potential guests are always up to date.

9 - The apartment or house should be spotlessly clean for new guests. It should smell nice too. Fresh flowers always smell nicer than chemical room fragrance and apart from the scent, are a nice personal touch.

10 - Furnishing and decorating your property in an aesthetically pleasing manner will encourage people to want to stay there. However, if the property is too individually decorated it may be off-putting to some guests. Try to maintain the fine balance between having mass-appeal but also standing out. 

Best of luck!

Once a guest has stayed at your property, we send them an email encouraging them to leave a review at their own discretion. Only guests who have stayed in your property through LanguageBookings can add reviews.
While reviews are the cornerstone of the LanguageBookings reputation system, references help people new to LanguageBookings get started building their reputation. Formerly known as recommendations, references are a complete enhancement to this feature. Everyone is now required to add profile photos before they can leave references. Finding your acquaintances and asking them to write you a reference only takes a single click once you are connected to Facebook.

 In order to maintain a high quality of listings on LanguageBookings, we review each offer before they are approved and made available for search. Uploading good quality photos and providing complete information about your property help speed up the review process. If your listing still doesn't appear in the search results within one week, please contact our customer support team for further advice.

Please contact us and we will advise you further.

 Yes. If you would like to block bookings on a certain date, you can access the calendar in each of your rooms of the Your Offers page. You can select the view dates option to update each date manually of use the bulk update by selecting the range of dates and enteriong the availability for those dates.

The commission varies according to the local standard commission for each country and the accommodation type. The accommodation has the possibility to influence its own ranking by changing the commission percentage and availability for certain periods, and continuously improving the other factors.

 
Most of our guest are students who travel to learn a language abroad. The minimun is ussually a week and the average stay are 4 weeks.