1. How long have you been in the B&B and/or hospitality business?
5 years
2. What is your favourite part of the job?
The people
3. What is your least favourite part of the job?
The waiting around for arrival
4. What is your best marketing tip?
Us. The town, our porches, my art and cooking classes
5. Do you have a staff or do everything yourself?
just us
6. What type of marketing do you find most effective?
word of mouth, internet
7. Do you attend seminars? Buy B&B Guides? no
8. Which recipe do you always get rave reviews for?
my pecan tree rolls, my strata’s, and a chocolate treat called Bark I serve in the afternoon
9. Do you work with other Innkeepers in your area or consider them competition?
competition is good and many of the local innkeepers are good friends of ours
10. Tell us about your most memorable guest?
we had Mr. Santa Clause U.S.A. with his grandchildren (i’m talking beard and all in July) and a superior court judge the next night
11. Do you have any horror stories from past guests?
just can’t keep them out of our kitchen when I’m trying to cook breakfast. we’re too laid back I suppose, they feel too compfortable here.
12. What do you think the biggest misconception is about staying at a B&B? That the owners want to talk all night and not let you have privacy. We make it clear it is their home until checkout.
13. What would you like to change about the industry? Local support from city government, afterall we are paying chamber salaries with our hotel tax!
14. Do you have any time saving tips or marketing treasures that you would like to share? The internet
15. What makes your B&B unique? Promoting something other than old homes in our town, Washington, Ga. I teach candlemaking, soapmaking, cooking classes, floral arranging classes. My husband and I both play guitar, there is a pump organ and piano in the front room, a banjo, dulcimer, to name a few. I serve a full candlelight breakfast. I have a local color book that the guests get a kick out of (funny clippings and goings on in Washington), great front porch sunsets. When they leave they always comment “you’re right, I do feel like I’m in Mayberry!”
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