Recent content by Happy Harpie

We will be departing Victoria Harbour on the 19 or 20 Nov by car. Heading to Florida to take a cruise and visit some friends. If all falls into place will drop by and take you out to dinner.

You are indeed a God Send and a kind heart. When are you going to come and visit. We owe you.

We had a most wonderful season this year and closed up shop last weekend for the Winter. We are situated in a tiny village on the shores of Georgian Bay, yet 70% of our clientele come from overseas. Headed South on a much needed break. Anyone out there near Lexington Ky, who wishes to rent us...

12 years in the business and I get 60% reservations through BDC, but also 25% - 30% cancellations. Frustrating, but customers reserve 2 or more places and then after a while decide which one is best suited for them and cancel the rest.

Hello from Canada; You are much too good and you love being a B&B owner to give it up. And then what the heck you gonna do with all the tea, coffee and Electric car hook-up. Stick around, as you are one of the best!

In 10 years we have had one Face Cloth go missing and the woman was so devastated that she sent a $6 face cloth back in the mail to us with a postage cost of $4. Her note to us was "I was mortified that I took one of your face cloths by mistake." She stated that it was already in the mail. We...

Hi welcome to the forum; Not sure if your are inquiring about serving breakfast or main meals. If it is the latter the Canadian Food Inspection Agency gets involved and you will have to practically have a commercial kitchen to get approval. As for just breakfast, we are in Ontario and I have...

We had a break last night and were sitting on the patio sipping on a glass of wine when my wife said. Running a B&B is just like the Movie "Ground Hog Day". Same thing day in and day out. That was when the wine squirted out of nose! She's a keeper!

When you greet your guests at the door - Positive First Impressions are imperative, as they are so important and tend to set the mood and mindset of the guests.

The fact that we do several overnight dishes, the leftovers go to an 89 year old lady across the street who live on her own and gets up around the time that we have finished serving Breakfast. Sometimes the leftover fruit salad will go into a mixture of fruit for our Belgian Waffles. Left over...

BBCanada is now on line for B&B for Vets. If interested in opening up your B&Bs in the USA for Canadian Vets go to BBCanada.com Cheers

BB Canada will be putting out a call very shortly - Last year we had just under 300 B&Bs participate, and from the feedback I received a great success.

Happy Keeper hit it right on the head. When we travel, we will always try to find a B&B, however, in some of the tourist areas,we find that we can't afford them. $200.00 + per night is not in our budget, yet you can still find a hotel for $100.00. We tend to keep our prices in a very...

Even Canada Loves you!..from first-hand experience - VOTED! Might see you in Dec for a night. Cheers Tucked Inn the Harbour B&B

No names, but we did exactly that and visited some B&Bs on our way to Florida. Two were absolutely free with a promise to reciprocate should they come up to Canada, and the rest were a minimum of at least 25% off. Be it in high season, which most B&Bs cannot get away anyway, we would still...