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104 Ways to increase your B & B savoir faire, charm your host and get preferential service at a Bed & Breakfast

Booklet by Andrea Reynolds, Copyright 1996-2004  $8.00
(Mentioned in USA Today, 9/19/03)

      

 

 Introduction

Back when travelers rode horses until nightfall, lodging was quite primitive. Men would pay for a place to sleep, often sharing a bed with one or two strangers, dusty breeches and all. At dawn they may have washed or shaved, had a meal, and rode off in separate directions.

Today, more and more business travelers and tourists are enjoying a modernized, more enjoyable version of this form of accommodation, by staying in someone's private city or country home for two or more nights.

Staying in a Bed & Breakfast has advantages over staying in an impersonal hotel. You are accommodated in a home-away-from-home with very nice people looking after you. And for less than the cost of a comparable hotel stay, you get a comfortable --often luxury quality -- room and bed, private or shared bath, a wholesome breakfast (full or extended continental), sparkling conversation, lots of activity ideas and cultural advice, and often, free parking.

As more North Americans are choosing Bed & Breakfast accommodation over hotel stays, B & B hosts would like first-time guests to know -- but are often too kind to tell them -- that there are some major differences between the two types of lodging.

Staying in a Bed & Breakfast is like staying at your future in-laws' home for the first time. (You want to enjoy yourself, but you also want to make a good impression.) The key is to remember that you are a guest in someone's private home; you're not staying in a hotel. We hosts want you to have a warm, relaxed and memorable stay; all we ask is that you be a polite and thoughtful guest.

About the author

Andrea Reynolds is the former owner of Author's Bed & Breakfast in downtown Toronto. It started with an assignment from a business school to write a profile about one of their home business instructors: a woman who operated a five-bedroom B & B. Andrea was hooked. Five years later she apprenticed herself to a Bed and Breakfast reservation service, then filled in as host for several vacationing B & B owners.

In 1995 she was able to open her own small B & B in Cabbagetown, a trendy but colorful area of Toronto. In 1997 she moved her B & B to a larger home with 3 guest bedrooms, two guest baths and a guest kitchen.

Her theme home was created to provide a home and office away from home for authors who were on media and press tours to promote their books. In addition to affordable accommodation, she provided promotion and office services, kitchen facilities for author-chefs who needed to prepare food in advance of television demonstrations.

Home invasions and death threats from a stalker convinced her it was time to hang up her host apron and return to giving how-to advice. She returned to the US and is a writer and marketing coach who specializes in helping experts, how-to authors and speakers build advice empires. She is available to speak to B & B associations on marketing your B & B services and handling tough B & B challenges.

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