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In our 4th year already, time does fly! Some of our mattresses are in need of replacement. When buying new mattresses, what level of quality do you buy and how many years do you expect them to be in service? Thanks, r

We get a booking for a couple for 2 nights. He later calls and says his secretery mistakenly had some books sent to our Inn. He would be sending mailing lables to return them. We have received 3 books now from various college book stores and Amazon. No mailing lables yet. One store called and...

DW often makes an egg, sausage, cheese casserole with a layer of sour cream in the middle - it's a real hit. She makes it up the night before and bakes it in the morning. This morning as we are making the fruit cups up she realizes our little Peruvian kitchen helper had, yesterday, dumped the...

We were just commenting tonight on how many first time B&B stayers we have. We think maybe 50% or better. Maybe because they see Hotel in our name and overlook B&B??? They all break inn nicely and say they love their B&B experience but just wondering what other inns newby check-in numbers are... r

While clearing a path on Saturday for the replacement fridge to be delivered the washer burns up. New washer delivered and installed on Monday, just getting caught up on the laundry. This morning sewer clog!!! All rooted out and good now. PLEASE let this be the last "event" for a while!!!!

Note to self: When the bikers ride in hand them some OLD hot tub towels to wipe down their bikes boots and other oily things that make a mess of a nice white towell...

We set the tables on the porch for 22 three times last week! Trying to figure out my new camera. There's the proud innkeeper !

No vacancy sign is out - 1:30 this morning the door bell is ringing, before I can find my robe and waddle to the door the phone is ringing as well. "Got any rooms?" "No." "We were gonna camp but got in late." "Sorry, we are full." "What do I do now?" "Try the motels down the street." "Up the...

Anybody else have one of these? DW called me AGAIN to vent about how loooooooonnnnnnnnggggggggg this front loader that came with the place takes to do a load. There are 2 dryers but one usually sits idle waiting for the washer to get done...

Our linen closets are getting pilfered for extra towels far too often! Right now it's not possible to lock them so we'll try the sign posting route. Something along the lines of being green and using your towels more than once. We are looking for some suggestions on clever towel use signs other...

Check book, cell phone chargers, shampoo, soap, swimming suits - and that was just this weekend!!! What do you do with all this stuff? The check book was a couple weeks ago and the guy paid the postage to mail it. The guy stopped the next time through for his charger but geeze, gather your stuff...

We just had a visit from a fellow who has applied with the city to open a bike shop in the available space next door to our inn. He was inquiring if we would be interested in monthly bike rentals. He would put placards on the bikes with our logo. We could either rent the bikes to our guests or...

I received an e-mail from an aspiring wondering if I would share some tales of our first few months of operation...well Shelley here goes...and this is just our first 3 weeks of operation. So we put up a package deal for V-Day on our website. The other inns in the area do a 2 night minimum so...

We are into our 3rd week of actual operation of the inn and I have to offer a piece of advice to aspirings: Make sure your family and friends know that you are going to be operating a business and life with you will not be as it has been in the past. Lay out the rules - at ours, no kids under 10...

Just over two weeks of glorious operation since the remodel and things have been just peachy. So Saturday night we have our first walk up. A couple, realtors, moaning about how bad business has been, it's a long way home, can we give them a deal, how about no breakfast, and on and on, so I cut...

So after our first 5 glorious days of operation we are closed down for 3 weeks to remodel and get really moved in! We've stripped wallpaper to float the sand finish walls smooth, pulled up carpets and will refinish some of the hardwood and recarpet some other areas. Crown moulding going up prior...

This is day 5 of our new adventure and it is absolutely wonderful!!! Our first morning - New Years Day - we had 12 for breakfast, 5 the next day then one gal for the last 2 days. We are closed now for some remodelling and to get really moved in. The experience so far has just been excellent! Any...

Hello! At last, I have found the innkeeper's forum I have been looking for My wife and I have had a contract on a local B&B for about a month now, contingent on the sale of our home. I know, terrible time to be selling but pretty good time to buy! This will be her business. She has been a...