Recent content by MooseTrax

I think the word irate did come up somewhere. What if they are irate? How do you handle that in front of other guests? When they did arrive they were not irate because they thought staying the extra night on the other end would be good all around.

It's dragging you down because you did your best and to your face everything was wonderful. But now Mr Poison Pen is sitting down to pick apart everything. The way you handle it is to laugh, as you've done. I had a chat today with someone who uses reviews everyday in her line of work. Now, yes...

Cigarette smoke is really bad in the damp weather. It seeps out of the walls.

Your cabins are new but my house is old. We deal with the same sort of problems when rooms go unused or if we leave the doors closed to keep wandering guests out. We've found the best thing is what you're doing. Get the windows open and run the fans. We tried those damp smell removal cakes but I...

The question was how would you handle this with some possible scenarios? The possibility that there were other guests standing there? (As it turned out, they arrived well before anyone else so no witnesses.) That they are repeat guests who we know stayed at several other B&B's last year (we...

Our confirmation is 2 pages long and states all of our policies. They emailed us that the flight was canceled. If it makes a difference I checked the IP address of the email and it was from Europe, where they were coming from. Whether or not they have subsequent reservations after here I don't...

We do not have any place to store supplies so we do go everyday. We are lucky to have a grocery store in town even though everything else is miles away. We look at it as a way to get out of the house for a little bit every day. No excuses, someone has to go! I think it keeps us both sane in the...

Hit the button that says 'quote' (right next to 'reply') and then write what you want to underneath the [ / quote. If you don't then what you say ends up in the box! Doing it that way gives you who said what you quoted. To just have the blue box with no names in it, copy what you want, paste it...

This may be an odd way to do it but we use a dayplanner, small, pocket size to do the grocery shopping. We can look and see what groceries were purchased so we then know what was served for breakfast the next day. Keeping a journal is an excellent idea, especially if you get a lot of repeat...

Bringing this over here from a different thread. The scenario is this: a guest has a room (or more than one room) booked for an extended stay. They cancel day of arrival but will still be coming in for the remainder of the stay. When they arrive they refuse to pay for the missed night(s). What...

Why they canceled last night- flight canceled. I have no reason to disbelieve them. They are also repeats which generally gets you a lot of slack around here but it's been a big week for cancellations. So far, 10 room nights canceled in the past 4 days. I'm not sure what the new thread should be...

We are discussing taking deposits now because the cancellations are getting so frequent and the guests are getting so much more belligerant because they say they are canceling because they can't afford to come and now they are going to be paying anyway. 60 days' cancellation won't fly around...

8 hours being long depends on when they got the email. I would hope to hear back in 1 day but I really like hearing back in minutes! That neither of them answered your question is interesting. These places could be raking in the cash, one would think, if they got on the ball. It's obvious they...

They booked 3 nights. They will pay for 3 nights by extending their stay because they missed one night. They refused to pay for last night. So, do I tell them to leave right now or take the 9 room nights but on different nights than what was booked? Now if I did not have 3 rooms open for them on...

We do both. One central location and then 5-6 mags in each room. I make sure there is a selection in the rooms so guests who have settled in don't have to get up and wander around at midnight when they can't sleep.