Recent content by Boomer

Ah, a play on words - No point in going on about this, you know exactly what I am talking about - just makes good blogging for some I guess - I'll move on But thanks for you 2 cents

1 - Like everyone else on here have talked about, some read, and some do not 2 - We are truly a destination Inn, nowhere near main roads - I think in 7 yrs we have had 3 walk-ins - we actually do not accept walk-ins as a general rule, and even say so on our entrance - of course it is worded...

We have them for our guest rooms - no noise at all - I programmed the beep to off - But more importantly, have you had any issues in cold weather for the outside door? We get temps in the -20 range, and my experience with anything digital it becomes dead at low temps, which is why we do not use...

Yes it is - we started this in May I think. We had too many early check-in attempts - and decided to lock our door midday in order frankly to get work done - we do most housekeeping - 9 rooms and our own landscaping - If we need to stop our projects to open early, then a fee is substantiated...

JB, Thank you, it was getting off track and I was on that road myself - I have been browsing this blog for over a year, and I have seen everything discussed that One Day is talking about. We have all tried the things aforementioned in his/her post, not to mention 100's of other things - but it...

In all honesty LB, then you must have been too low to begin with - which in the end is a good thing for you. - As Mort said each Inn has it's own pros and cons, ups and downs - If I raised my rates 10-$15 which equates to ~10% increase, I would suspect I'd see a huge amount of complaints, or...

Raising rates during this economic disaster would be truly detrimental. We keep fixing our bottom line by cutting back on unnecessary items. The first thing we changed was cutting nearly 50% of our costs by changing our suppliers – we had a linen company that kept adding surcharges for gas...

It really depends on several factors including but no limited to your location. We are a destination location, so that time of year drives a new tourist group - the skier and snow people. As Mort said, it varies from yr to yr on how busy you are. If snow is light, as it was last year, it can...

Over the years we have tried just about every price combination - and have finally settled on 3 different prices - based on room size and amenities and views - here is my unscientific results - given the choice a large % of guests picked the higher end room pricing. For the most part, we ignore...

Yep, me too the Acorn way is a bit too out of the way - Networkblogs works great for me too - in seconds

Cell phones here are never going to work - guests understand, but we do have WiFi, so may of there phones convert and they can access most services via WiFi. Since Cell are dead up here, we have a Vonage phone in the common areas for free use - they seem fine with that

We offer AAA and active military discounts only - nothing else. Used to years ago, but truly never got anything back on it. We do offer complimentary stays with several other Inn's that we frequent the areas for business or pleasure, but only a hand full

Initially via the other site - but since I want to drop the other site, I contacted them directly. We had been told by the other site that the only way to enroll with the big E was via them. Not true, so big E gave me the partner website by which I could join directly - if you want I can email...

We do exactly the same - "Check-In 3:00pm - 10:00pm" - please call for later. I never send a follow up - Only send the initial confirmation with all details. I feel we are dealing with adults, so no need to coddle them. We are 2 hours from nearest airport, so we do have our share of 1am...

We dropped BB last year and will not renew with BedandBreakfast when our year is up. The combined money will more than cover T A for a good years trial. Majority of our guests find us on Google and T A, so we figured we'd give up and join the Gorilla and see what happens. We are tired of the...