Coco, l totally sympathise and agree with all you said. l am in a very similar position, except that l let my main house and live on site in a small gite on the property. l tend to get families, usually two, they always have loads of kids,they never go out and up to now all have been English. The property sleeps ten and the average stay is two weeks. Yes, the English children are horrendous and yes the parents are in the main totally incompetent in controlling them. l have also considered a child free zone, but have been told that l will limit my bookings by choosing this option. l am not sure that this is true, but l for one would have no hesitation to do this if l was still able to get bookings. Like yourself and so many others by the sound of this thread, l have experienced so much damage from other peoples children. l am just constantly amazed at the total ineptness of parents who just allow these children to behave and do what they like, wherever they are. You certainly sound like you had an awful time with your guests and their kids but without being too negative it seems that this is what it is like at the moment. Have you seen the new series of programmes such as Nanny 911 where a nanny is sent into a family home to try and restore order for the parents? These programmes are quite unbelievable if you should come across them and seem to show the incredible lack of discipline that seems to have become a fashionable new from of parenting. Last year l used to wish that the skimmer on the pool was big enough and powerful enough to just suck most of them through the filter system!! Good Luck for the rest of and as you say you do meet some really nice people in this business but then l've met some really nice people at bustops!! Kind Regards Shauna