Recent content by Basil Fawlty

Well, leave it to this webpage to cleave to its snarky response mechanism. I said I could take criticism , but insult and snark are not helpful. For those who responded with honestly helpful responses, - thank you. For those who took an opportunity to denigrate - bugger you.

Goodness, that statement must affect your bias. But thanks for the comment.

No seriously - thanks for the supportive feedback.

no of course not. Not negative or aggressive at all. what was your mother's house like? did that affect your posting?

Oh dear. Thanks for the heads up.

Many thanks, and no the place certainly does not stink of cats... Whoa.

Thanks for the feedback.

Its a mystery. Good questions, though. Thought we had the answers, but time to take another look. Many thanks. Green Cat

We have been up and running since 2005. We are a smaller b&b - just four rooms - in Kitsap County, Washington State. We're an hour from downtown Seattle by the Bainbridge ferry. We noticed in 2014 that a few properties in our area were on airbnb, and decided to join as a vacation rental as our...

Yeah, I'm with you - except - in our area of West Puget Sound (Kitsap County) airbnb is putting us out of business. With 167 local "hosts" we have seen a nearly 50% drop in our own website bookings. We have nothing - and I mean nothing - in March, April, etc. going forward. We also can rent...

Just moving your mom alone is enough to cause severe stress. That is a turning point, and sorting out family belongings is tough psychically. Innkeeping itself is stressful, even on good days when all the guests are great and nobody complains! Sorry to get all wooga-wooga West Coast woo-woo...

For 12 years we served a hot breakfast buffet from 8:30-10. Recently we noticed that travelers get here, they chill out and wake up later then they thought. Now we say we serve a breakfast buffet between 9am-10, and not a peep - yet. Its only May! We do provide an "early bird" or "on the go"...

When we opened in '05 we envisioned selling as a business when we retired. Now, with airbnb all around us, who would want to jump through all those county permit issues (our county is one of the worst), the WA state business license, the Health Department License, the Transient Accommodation...

We did the ROKU Route and its worked out great. A lot simpler, cheaper, and quite an interesting array of options. Some of our older guests need walking through but the remote is way simpler than a cable remote and we've made sure they can access a fox sports channel, etc. Haven't heard any...

Yeah, we're out in a rural area in West Puget Sound, but with GPS folks just pop on over and ring the bell for a tour. There is now a sign on the door: Please make sure you have a confirmed reservation. Please call our cell to arrange a tour. Then, if they persist and ring the bell, we are...