We're pleased with our new maps and hope that you will find them useful. We've written a very short help section but at the bottom of the page we give a link to Google Maps help, too.
Errors do occur in our maps - check exact locations with owner when booking.
You'll see these when you first open the maps page - they tell you how many Special Places you'll find per continent on our website. Click on any one of these and you'll then see how many places we have per country. If you decide to change your search criteria on the right, the numbers of places in each country or region will change.
Choose your area here, or click the post-it for a region, then...
At any point zoom right in to find all our places in any particular area, especially if there are lots of pins as some may be hidden by others. Use the + and - slider to zoom in to spot all our places and out for an overview. You can zoom right into street level.
Use the arrow pointers or, quicker still, put your mouse on the middle of the map, click down and hold, then slide mouse up down, right or left, to see the next bit of the map.
Play around with these - the satellite option is fun and you can zoom right into houses and gardens. Find out if your Special Place is next to an airfield or in glorious isolation! Hybrid gives you the Satellite view and paints road names on top - useful for navigation.
In the bottom right hand corner of the map you will see an overview of where you are. You can click and drag the tinted box to change countries and navigate quickly around the world.
Use 'select by price' to the right of the map to display only places up to a certain price. Or 'Select by feature' and tick the white boxes next to the symbols to narrow your map search further. You can also specify what sort of Property Types you want to display. So, if you want a place around the £70 a night mark that takes children, has bikes to borrow and is a Hotel, not a B&B, click away.
Click here to go to Google Maps' excellent help section.
