Honestly...can you imagine you, yourself, traveling anywhere and staying in a b&b...and giving unsolicited "advice"? It's different if you know the innkeepers, or you've stayed for a few days and they know what you do and they ASK...but the unsolicited stuff just kills me. I just wouldn't do it. It happens here all the time though, we just say "Great idea" and keep moving....
InnsiderInfo said:
Honestly...can you imagine you, yourself, traveling anywhere and staying in a b&b...and giving unsolicited "advice"? It's different if you know the innkeepers, or you've stayed for a few days and they know what you do and they ASK...but the unsolicited stuff just kills me. I just wouldn't do it. It happens here all the time though, we just say "Great idea" and keep moving...
Those are innkeepers favorite words from a guest "Can I make a suggestion..." Once again they are the only guest you have ever had. I tried to explain this to someone yesterday who stared at me like a deer in the headlights. They really did not get that this is 'work' and I said, again, "We are up at 6am making breakfast for guests, and working all day. If guests check in at 9 or 10 pm that is a long long day." Her reply "Do they guests choose when breakfast is?" I looked at her and said "Does it matter? We have to prep and cook the meal, we have to serve the meal, the guest does not do that." It was not by way of complaining, she asked we answered her question. I guess we should not have answered the question that was asked. It seems we do that more and more in this business, so non-innkeepers think it is a bowl of cherries day in and day out. LOL.
BTW my guests last night arrived after midnight. I didn't even know how many there were for breakfast, the one room went and gathered his mother to bring her here for breakfast - "OPEN FOR BUSINESS" I guess the sign says. "You won't mind if Mother joins us for breakfast" and I did mind, the table was set for the guests who paid to stay with us. I told him we are only permitted to serve breakfast to guests registered to stay here (which it truth). I made her a cup of tea and moved the centrepiece down and she sat with the family. I brought the food out and the wife said to me "I don't eat eggs" I replied, "Will they make you sick if they are on the plate?" "No, I just won't eat them." They are here for 6 nights, the menu is already planned. I said to her "It won't hurt my feelings at all if you leave whatever you don't like right there on that plate" and walked away.
Innkeeps - there has to be a linedrawn when day in and day out guests take advantage, after all we are so nice and just do this for fun, right? Boundaries. You play within my boundaries and nobody gets hurt. (I mean, every one enjoys their stay).
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