This is why I rarely read glowing reviews. I want to see where a guest's experience came up short, and what the innkeeper did about it. That tells me everything I need to know..
IronGate said:
This is why I rarely read glowing reviews. I want to see where a guest's experience came up short, and what the innkeeper did about it. That tells me everything I need to know.
Do you mean how the innkeeper responded? Yes, it is that old we can all be calm when everything goes perfectly right, but see what happens when you throw us into hot water!
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Joey Bloggs said:
IronGate said:
This is why I rarely read glowing reviews. I want to see where a guest's experience came up short, and what the innkeeper did about it. That tells me everything I need to know.
Do you mean how the innkeeper responded? Yes, it is that old we can all be calm when everything goes perfectly right, but see what happens when you throw us into hot water!
Interesting way to put it...see what happens when the guest throws us off the mark somehow. Blame the guest? Review our own way of doing things? Ignore it? Laugh it off?
What is telling is when ONE guest can make an innkeeper completely change the way they do business. Was that problem there all along? Was that the straw? Or is it a total overreaction? Sometimes the changes are for the good of all and that's positive. Other times the mgmt responses to reviews stating massive changes in policy DUE TO THIS GUEST are totally negative.
Of course I hope all the time to not have that kind of task set in front of me! We have changed as the years have gone along. We've changed back and forth on some issues (late arrivals). We've remodeled to partly avoid the boundary-less guest's intrusions. We've done that dang keypad thing 3 times now! We've changed how we make brekkie.
All of it without any kind of reviews but just gauging how our guests are reacting to what they're finding here.
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Alibi Ike said:
Joey Bloggs said:
IronGate said:
This is why I rarely read glowing reviews. I want to see where a guest's experience came up short, and what the innkeeper did about it. That tells me everything I need to know.
Do you mean how the innkeeper responded? Yes, it is that old we can all be calm when everything goes perfectly right, but see what happens when you throw us into hot water!
Interesting way to put it...see what happens when the guest throws us off the mark somehow. Blame the guest? Review our own way of doing things? Ignore it? Laugh it off?
What is telling is when ONE guest can make an innkeeper completely change the way they do business. Was that problem there all along? Was that the straw? Or is it a total overreaction? Sometimes the changes are for the good of all and that's positive. Other times the mgmt responses to reviews stating massive changes in policy DUE TO THIS GUEST are totally negative.
Of course I hope all the time to not have that kind of task set in front of me! We have changed as the years have gone along. We've changed back and forth on some issues (late arrivals). We've remodeled to partly avoid the boundary-less guest's intrusions. We've done that dang keypad thing 3 times now! We've changed how we make brekkie.
All of it without any kind of reviews but just gauging how our guests are reacting to what they're finding here.
As the saying goes, it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.
Overeacting, vs reacting to a bad situation is something to think about. That could be the diff in a long slew of pitas (the last straw) to the difficult guest being the only one for a while and we can deal with it. Sometimes the last straw means we need to re-eval how we do things. Some of these things are obv to the rest of us and we just go merrily along...until it happens.
I am disturbed when innkeepers change something major due to one guest. The "notes everywhere" thing comes to mind. One bad apple and the rest of us are treated like school children. Like DH said to me one day when someone suggested I make him a honeydew list "I better not EVER see a honeydew list or you will have a stop work order" it was a total insult to him. Now for me, I am a list maker, but don't dare make that one, even tho I need to!! I mean, he needs me to! haha
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