A farm holidays is above all a farm. The opening to the public is only an aspect of its activity. Therefore when you choose to stay or to have a dinner in a farm holidays it is a good thing to bear the following advice in mind.

1- Accomodation
The rooms could be very different according to the farm holidays. There are some rooms provided with all comforts (private bathroom, TV, telephone, air conditioned, sat TV) and other rooms more simple which share the same bathroom. It depends on the choice of the single farm holidays which reflects different philosophies, all legitimate. Before booking you could ring up to check that the welcome offered meets your standards of quality and comfort.

2- Refreshment
Most of the typical dishes you could find in the description of the farm holidays are linked to the periodicity of the products so they are not always available. It's a good thing to ask what is the day's menu when you book.

3- Timetable
The farm holidays which makes also restaurant service can be opened for a maximum of 210 days per year: so it is not open all days. It is usually open from Thursday to Sunday and, generally, only in the evening, except on Sunday. It's a good thing to check in this guide the opening time before to go to a farm holidays and, anyway, to ring always up to check the real opening of the farm.

4- Snacks
The farm holidays which makes this service usually has a very limited menu. It is not a fault of the farm but it reflects the will of the owner to offer his guests the best of his production without neglecting the farm.

5- Products
Most of the products (the percentage varies according to the geographical area where the farm holidays is located) served in the farms which make restaurant service are produced by the farm itself. But also products not produced by the farm usually come from other farms, only few products, such as mineral water, are not local production.

6- Excursions
Most of the farms holidays are located in the countryside so that you can take the advantage of finding new paths which are not signalled or to go on a trip among fields and woods which are farm estate. You could take the owner advice so that you could have a nice day together with your family in the open air.

7- Costs
Prices can vary a lot according to service, area and dishes and wines, in the case of the restaurant. It has to be destroyed the myth "Farm holidays=to spend little": the quality of the welcome and the restaurant service of the farm holidays has improved a lot also to answer the qualitative standards of the market. The price is only one of the component to take into account and it is secondary compared with the genuineness of the products or the welcome offered.