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Daily Archives: December 11th, 2008

Scrooge is alive and well across the UK…

If the PC brigade could have their miserable way I bet you they would outlaw the word Christmas and have it stricken from the dictionary…
I don’t know what it is with the way the UK is going but these days this nation seems to specialise in miserable gits who have no brains but plenty of [...]

What I will not miss when we leave…

Well, there is quite a list now I come to think of it, but here are just a few aspects of being a hotel owner in France that I will NOT miss…!
1. The pre-6am starts and after-midnight lockups
2. Cleaning guest rooms
3. The cold, cold winters (despite the newly installed tankless water heater).
4. Guests who are fussy eaters.
5. Guests children [...]

Hotel owners – do some of your guests stay in touch?

As we enter the final weeks of our (almost) five years of being in the hotel trade I have been re-filing all the reservation forms and invoices we have collected over that time. As the number of guests we have had number into the thousands I had mixed emotions as I re-read many of their [...]