I had donated 1 room and the couple no showed
. I had over 30 people wanting that room..
Guess someone should inform the military that they need to teach common courtesy :-(
Wonder if they were active duty or retired vets?
Would be interesting to know how many of the no shows are on duty now and if they really had a good reason for not showing up other than poor manners :-(
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catlady said:
Would be interesting to know how many of the no shows are on duty now and if they really had a good reason for not showing up other than poor manners :-(
My theory is that many of the people who signed up had no idea what a B&B is. Even after signing up, I don't think many of them looked to see what they were getting into. None of the folks who called me had any idea. The thought it was like a hotel. One guy called 3-4 times wanting to change the room, wanting a bigger room, wanting 2 rooms so he could bring more people with him. He didn't get it. He gets it now and he is all excited to come back in 2 years if we do this again. He already knows he won't be able to come next Nov. It took a lot of conversation with him to explain we could not give him 2-3 rooms so he could bring more people with him. It was one room and that was it. His friends could call us, but we couldn't give the rooms to him.
I totally agree that they should have called to cancel or should have at least called to say they couldn't come.
What we all have to consider is that we threw this out there with the hopes of attracting some attention while doing something really nice. We attracted a lot of attention. There may have been more problems in a single night than many innkeepers see in a year because of their
usual clientele. But, we accomplished a lot by letting some non-B&B-goers have a free taste of what we offer. Many, many may not even bother to call next year because it wasn't what they wanted.
That's not ungrateful, really, it's a factual statement. We all know we would rather have guests who want to be here than those who come because they're forced.
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