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JeffK:
My daughter Danielle is in France at the moment.  She went over in mid-March to take up an Au Pair position but lost her job after six weeks.

I'm encouraging her to find another position but in the mean tme we have to find her accommodation.  She has a tentative offer that doesn't start until late July.

I may have to bring her home to Australia which would be a real shame as we have put a lot of energy and money to get her there.

Do any forum members have any ideas as to the best places to look on the internet or contacts for short term (but relatively cheap) accommodation in France?

Regards,

Jeff

Deozaan:
I'm probably not much help, as I've never been to Europe, but I've heard from people who have that staying in a hostel is a cheap way to travel. It might work for a temporary solution.

4wd:
Do any forum members have any ideas as to the best places to look on the internet or contacts for short term (but relatively cheap) accommodation in France?
-JeffK (May 08, 2009, 05:32 PM)
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Craig's List for France?  Looks like you can get a room in Paris for around EUR400/month.

Hostels.com - I used them to find a hostel in Valparaiso, Chile, where we stayed a couple of months ago.

Trav - Used them to find a hostel in Cusco, Peru, a couple of months ago, (then booked through the hostel's own website).

Both the above sites have a user rating system which I based my decisions on and they turned out to be fairly accurate for the two places we stayed.

The problem will be you're going into high season.

tomos:
havent used this but I know someone who's giving it a go
CouchSurfing
CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travelers and the local communities they visit.
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Idea being for travellers you can crash on someones couch and they get rated by visitors so as things will (hopefully) stay above board.
So, not a recommendation, but an idea.

brotherS:
A similar site/service: http://hospitalityclub.org/

I used it successfully once (great experience) and failed another time (no one would reply or be able to host me when I needed it).

Your daughter has a really long period to bridge, it might work with sites like http://hospitalityclub.org/ and http://www.couchsurfing.org/ plus some cheap youth hostels in between.

Not sure if such sites allow minors (which your daughter probably is?) though - they might not for legal reasons (but no idea).

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