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- Wed Aug 05, 2015 2:19 pm
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Attending to Upset Guests
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5741
I don't know if age has much to do with it. There are some pretty appalling people of all ages and as night follows day they will become pretty appalling pensioners. If you do consistently find 'pensioners are the worst' , it may be that your property is simply less suitable for them compared to fam...
- Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:51 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: helpless guests, what to do...???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7268
Re: helpless guests, what to do...???
normally, i never interfere with my guests. Sometimes not interfering can cross the line into not helping. I cannot believe that you sat and listened to them struggling with the jacuzzi for an hour and left them to it. Don't be surprised if your French guests are wary of non-standard (to them) thin...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:56 am
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: Problems with people receiving attachments
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3966
PDF. What a faff. I'd have to convert my word doc everytime I uodated it...that is sometimes 3 times per guest (I update the statement at each payment stage). We faff so our guests don't have to. ;-) I've used pdf for about 5 years - it doesn't make sense to use anything else because not everyone h...
- Wed Jul 29, 2015 6:10 pm
- Forum: Managing your garden and pool
- Topic: Installing a pool - but not for gite guests
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8310
I would likely find the restricted timings very irritating. If the pool is more than just a splash pool - if I could actually swim worthwhile lengths in it - I'd want to be in early morning (7-ish) and probably mid-evening. I'd be less interested during the middle of the day, not least because I'm f...
- Tue Jul 28, 2015 7:24 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Guests Deny Responsibility For Their Actions
- Replies: 59
- Views: 8453
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 6:12 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Book of the House everyone still using a folder?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 10789
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Cafe
- Topic: A Family Conumdrum
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2474
Re: A Family Conumdrum
I also wondered if it was a GCSE question... and whether the uncle / aunt confusion might be some sort of pc LGBT thing...Sam V wrote:She also wonders if the email was from the uncle or the aunt.
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:23 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Book of the House everyone still using a folder?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 10789
I think that I will always have folders (in each bedroom as well as their sitting room) for ease of use, Bunny, not least because paper based info doesn't need charging or refuse to operate (unless a glass of red is upended and laminating would take care of that particular problem) but the more I th...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:10 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Book of the House everyone still using a folder?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 10789
La Vache - how would you prevent your guests from amending or, even worse, deleting your information, that you may not notice on changeover? I've not used a tablet so don't know what software is on them - an adaptation of Word, for eg? If so, you simply password protect any document (not the tablet...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 6:52 am
- Forum: Scam email enquiries
- Topic: Is this a scam
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1189
I agree with the posts above. a) doesn't seem unreasonable that if someone needs to stay in an area and is making plans they don't have precise day / date yet and b) the enquirer's full name should not be included - I'd reduce it to just initials. Would you risk setting up a tenancy with a booking o...
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:45 pm
- Forum: The Cafe
- Topic: Guests Gender
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3103
Lindsey / Lindsay is one of those Leslie / Lesley or Francis / Frances names. The male / female split used to be well understood but the division has blurred over the decades. I knew a male Lindsey who was Scottish and apparently it was quite a popular boys name there but the female form has become ...
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:54 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: How many plates and sets of cutlery per guest?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7722
Chilled soups (other than gazpacho) are a good start to meals in summer - when I did table d'hôte I regularly did pea and mint, pea and little gem lettuce, tomato and basil, courgette and lemon, cucumber and dill with smoked trout or salmon (hot smoked, not trad sliced smoked salmon)... there are lo...
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:42 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Would you mention a large delivery?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3504
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:32 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Would you mention a large delivery?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3504
She lives and breaths horses and competes, so there is no chance of it not being used. Oh, I wasn't suggesting that you wouldn't use yours - more that you'd understand my bewilderment when said friend went through about a year of discussing (obsessing) and deciding on substrates, toppings, fencing ...
- Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:10 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: What is wrong with some people?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10911
'No problem', I said. I grabbed the EUR 100 and walked off with it. I did give them their EUR 4 but left a whole hour before I did that. I understand your frustration and these sound most difficult guests but really, don't descend to their level; don't play their games. Can you get the bike hire to...