Inn church

[Happy Keeper]

Arkansawyer, First the doilies and now the bibles? ;-) How did you come to stay at these places in the first place? Was the marketing material that led you to choose these places mis-representative? Are there lessons we can take from your experience?.

How did you come to stay at these places in the first place? Was the marketing material that led you to choose these places mis-representative?

It was all at the same place, not two different places. I see NOTHING at their website that indicates any sign or mention of religion. It was a complete surprise. Their TA reviews are excellent and none mention the prayers at mealtime. I guess it's just my family who found it all a bit unexpected.
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How did you come to stay at these places in the first place? Was the marketing material that led you to choose these places mis-representative?

It was all at the same place, not two different places. I see NOTHING at their website that indicates any sign or mention of religion. It was a complete surprise. Their TA reviews are excellent and none mention the prayers at mealtime. I guess it's just my family who found it all a bit unexpected.

Have you considered doing a TA with your experience? That's a good way to give a heads up to folks. Of course it needs to be done with respect and sensitivity. Also, a mention about your room with no window should be mentioned!
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I've considered a TA heads-up for future guests. I may do it, but I'll wait a while so he doesn't know it's me writing it. He's a nice guy. The B&B was his dream. A while after they bought the B&B, his wife divorced him, saying she didn't sign on to be an innkeeper.
The inn is now for sale. He has a big "For Sale By Owner" sign right in front of the place, recently marked down from $995,000 to $749,000 "for quick sale". I talked to some guests who had stayed there in the past. They said he seems noticably less enthusiastic than a couple of years ago. Burn out.
So I feel sorry for him. But also feel sorry for guests who need to know the situation with the no-window room and the overt religion.
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Be careful how you word that review. Religion is one of those things TA will ask you to remove from your review if the owner complains. Unless you can make it sound like that's not the reason you're writing the review, or you make it a positive aspect of your stay. "We were delighted that this B&B owner required that prayers be said before meals. Finally! A good Christian home."
Something like that will say what the website apparently doesn't. And it will allow like-minded guests to make the right choice. And un-like-minded guests to choose elsewhere.
Definitely put in about the no windows.
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Be careful how you word that review. Religion is one of those things TA will ask you to remove from your review if the owner complains. Unless you can make it sound like that's not the reason you're writing the review, or you make it a positive aspect of your stay. "We were delighted that this B&B owner required that prayers be said before meals. Finally! A good Christian home."
Something like that will say what the website apparently doesn't. And it will allow like-minded guests to make the right choice. And un-like-minded guests to choose elsewhere.
Definitely put in about the no windows.

or not review it at all and let the guy alone to sell his inn... If it bothered you Arks, can you please do what EACH OF US ASK to be done, go directly to the innkeeper. Consider this. Some people are that way, it is in their being, just like others have other "things" that are in their being.
I just wish you could share the website with us, I know you can't, but to look at it and see if we see this on there, or other things like no window in that room.
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I just wish you could share the website with us, I know you can't...

Yes, don't feel I can share that here, but I'll send the link to you privately.
And yes, I'll probably end up leaving the poor guy alone. His guests can survive the relatively minor problems. Really feel bad about how his dream turned out, and hope for a better ending to my own dreams.
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Yeah- best left alone. Our policy is that we only give reviews for those that we found to be exceptional and we leave the rest alone. If we were unhappy enough to write anything else, we would tell the proprietor instead with the hopes that it would help them and not cause them harm.

 

[Joey Camb]

Arkansawyer, First the doilies and now the bibles? ;-) How did you come to stay at these places in the first place? Was the marketing material that led you to choose these places mis-representative? Are there lessons we can take from your experience?.

How did you come to stay at these places in the first place? Was the marketing material that led you to choose these places mis-representative?

It was all at the same place, not two different places. I see NOTHING at their website that indicates any sign or mention of religion. It was a complete surprise. Their TA reviews are excellent and none mention the prayers at mealtime. I guess it's just my family who found it all a bit unexpected.
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How did you come to stay at these places in the first place? Was the marketing material that led you to choose these places mis-representative?

It was all at the same place, not two different places. I see NOTHING at their website that indicates any sign or mention of religion. It was a complete surprise. Their TA reviews are excellent and none mention the prayers at mealtime. I guess it's just my family who found it all a bit unexpected.

Have you considered doing a TA with your experience? That's a good way to give a heads up to folks. Of course it needs to be done with respect and sensitivity. Also, a mention about your room with no window should be mentioned!
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I've considered a TA heads-up for future guests. I may do it, but I'll wait a while so he doesn't know it's me writing it. He's a nice guy. The B&B was his dream. A while after they bought the B&B, his wife divorced him, saying she didn't sign on to be an innkeeper.
The inn is now for sale. He has a big "For Sale By Owner" sign right in front of the place, recently marked down from $995,000 to $749,000 "for quick sale". I talked to some guests who had stayed there in the past. They said he seems noticably less enthusiastic than a couple of years ago. Burn out.
So I feel sorry for him. But also feel sorry for guests who need to know the situation with the no-window room and the overt religion.
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Be careful how you word that review. Religion is one of those things TA will ask you to remove from your review if the owner complains. Unless you can make it sound like that's not the reason you're writing the review, or you make it a positive aspect of your stay. "We were delighted that this B&B owner required that prayers be said before meals. Finally! A good Christian home."
Something like that will say what the website apparently doesn't. And it will allow like-minded guests to make the right choice. And un-like-minded guests to choose elsewhere.
Definitely put in about the no windows.
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"We were delighted that this B&B owner required that prayers be said before meals. Finally! A good Christian home."

You are a very wise woman! Thanks!
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I hate to advise on how to write a good bad review, but we got that info when Eric had a review written more or less expressly to let everyone know he's a couple with another guy. TA advised the reviewer to remove that one sentence and now the review reads like his place is seedy without the accompanying 'aha' moment when you, the reader, realize the whole thing was written just to end up with, 'And, oh by the way...'.
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trouble is as well if the chap is selling its unlikely he is going to change things at this stage in the game.

 

[Samster]

As my DH would say, "Lord, save me from your followers". I would not personally insist that guests pray at breakfast. Those who will do so, will do so. Others would never return if they were made to feel uncomfortable. It's the same feeling you get when innkeepers ask that you're in by 9 or take off your shoes or whatever.
We are Christian people, but I'm not going to hit anyone over the head with it when they come in my door. I want them to feel welcome regardless of what they do on Sunday mornings at 11am..

Or what they might do on their Sabbath (if it is not on Sundays)....
I agree, Arks, that you should contact the innkeepers directly about how it made you feel uncomfortable during your stay. If you do write a review, you can mention that it was a Christian B&B if you so desire, because of course that's within your rights.

 

[Generic]

Why do I have a feeling that if I booked there, I would end up in a lawsuit? I'm not sure which would be more of a problem with them... but I certainly wouldn't be comfortable there and I wouldn't be comfortable with the prayer at the table. Do they at least advertise that this is their way. G-d forbid I should end up there, by error.

 

[Arks]

Why do I have a feeling that if I booked there, I would end up in a lawsuit? I'm not sure which would be more of a problem with them... but I certainly wouldn't be comfortable there and I wouldn't be comfortable with the prayer at the table. Do they at least advertise that this is their way. G-d forbid I should end up there, by error..

Do they at least advertise that this is their way.

They do not. Had no idea until we got there. I'm sure some people are caught by surprise, but here in the Bible Belt it's not THAT big a surprise so I think people just let it pass. I only mention it here as a general example of perhaps not the best way to run an inn, in my own opinion.

 

[Generic]

Why do I have a feeling that if I booked there, I would end up in a lawsuit? I'm not sure which would be more of a problem with them... but I certainly wouldn't be comfortable there and I wouldn't be comfortable with the prayer at the table. Do they at least advertise that this is their way. G-d forbid I should end up there, by error..

Do they at least advertise that this is their way.

They do not. Had no idea until we got there. I'm sure some people are caught by surprise, but here in the Bible Belt it's not THAT big a surprise so I think people just let it pass. I only mention it here as a general example of perhaps not the best way to run an inn, in my own opinion.
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Wow... what states are the "bible belt"?

 

[Madeleine]

Why do I have a feeling that if I booked there, I would end up in a lawsuit? I'm not sure which would be more of a problem with them... but I certainly wouldn't be comfortable there and I wouldn't be comfortable with the prayer at the table. Do they at least advertise that this is their way. G-d forbid I should end up there, by error..

Do they at least advertise that this is their way.

They do not. Had no idea until we got there. I'm sure some people are caught by surprise, but here in the Bible Belt it's not THAT big a surprise so I think people just let it pass. I only mention it here as a general example of perhaps not the best way to run an inn, in my own opinion.
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Wow... what states are the "bible belt"?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt

 

[gillumhouse]

Why do I have a feeling that if I booked there, I would end up in a lawsuit? I'm not sure which would be more of a problem with them... but I certainly wouldn't be comfortable there and I wouldn't be comfortable with the prayer at the table. Do they at least advertise that this is their way. G-d forbid I should end up there, by error..

Do they at least advertise that this is their way.

They do not. Had no idea until we got there. I'm sure some people are caught by surprise, but here in the Bible Belt it's not THAT big a surprise so I think people just let it pass. I only mention it here as a general example of perhaps not the best way to run an inn, in my own opinion.
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Wow... what states are the "bible belt"?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt
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And a few of them have been referred to as the Gold Buckle on the Bible Belt.