Recent content by upinntheriver

We've had medicine, clothes, Kindles, photo IDs, phone chargers by the dozen, a gun, a pillow they wanted returned that I would have thrown away, but the absolute most memorable was a large (about a foot long) purple, plastic, personal pleasure device. For some reason, they didn't call and ask...

I LOVE this forum. Nobody understands the weirdness an innkeeper gets like another innkeeper. We get the ones who show up at 2 a.m., and after we get up, get dressed, and grope our way into the office want a discount. Uh, no. There is also another inn in town with a very similar name. We don't...

We serve the same "continental" breakfast every day and people say they look forward to it. I should probably explain that we are in the mountains two hours from shopping. When the last breakfast place closed, we decided that our guests would have something substantial even if nobody else did...

I instruct housekeepers not to handle guests property that's been left on the bed. If clothing, camera gear, or personal items have been left on the bed they move on to the bathroom or gather trash. When I was new to innkeeping I couldn't imagine that the guests wanted me to enter their room...