my biggest pet hate at the moment, people who drive all the way up our farm road looking for a local holiday let, B & B , camping site and say, I know we are in the wrong place but my satnav brought me here. Myself and neighbours are so sick of it. If you are going to run a camping site don't just give out your first name and postcode and expext that is enough information for people to find you.
We have holiday businesses here, and I can tell you that you can write what you want in the blurb, tell them again when they book, send them a letter and a map - and they will still follow their
satnav!!! If you are out in the sticks, you may get away with putting up homemade signs pointing people in the right direction (and or away from the wrong direction).
We had a similar problem up North too, in that we and the business across the road shared a postcode. It caused them and us quite a bit of grief. In fact, we came back to the farmstead one day to find some of their holiday guests inside our house!! In that case, they had described the route to the people, told them what the building and door looked like, and the silly eejits still opened our door (which was unlike the description they'd been given in every respect.
) and walked in.
Having declined to be a keyholder for their holiday cottages!, and having very reluctantly taken to locking the front door if we were out and about on the farm, we asked around and were told about two options to help. We were within half a mile of a World Heritage Site so putting up our own signage was a non-starter (although we did put a "Not <organic cafe and Bunk Barn>" sign on our own front door for the rest of that summer.). The "official" options were to get the map data companies to put in a special pin for the business, and the other was for the business to apply for a unique postcode for themselves. I can't remember now what the criteria were to get your own postcode, and of course there will still be old guides out there with the old postcode, but it would reduce the problem. They did go for the map pin business, but took the alternative option of locating the postcode pin on their property instead of ours, which then caused us and the other house on the same postcode a whole pile of grief with our own visitors
. I think all that is easier now that most phones have satnav capability.
Anyway, I feel for you!
