Product DescriptionSo You Want to Buy a Small Hotel is written with humor and tells it like it is, warts and all, the good things and the nightmares about running a hotel - the dream (with the nightmares!) lived for 11 years at the Rosebank Hotel in the Scottish Borders. It’s a ‘how-to’ book with a difference, anecdotal, full of practical, step-by-step advice, with warnings about pitfalls -- a buyer’s hotel guide for dummies! Reading this book will give you practical insights into what it is really like to own a small hotel and enable you to decide whether running a small hotel is for you.
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How true this book is!
I enjoyed reading So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel: A Guide very much and I congratulate the author on a job well done and to perfection.. I too owned a hotel back in the 50's that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and of course the food being much different in the States then over seas.. So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel: A Guide brought back a lot of memories for me..The hotel was a great deal of work but it had it's good times too..Joanne Muller tells it the way it is.. I found myself laughing out loud at some of the situations that she and her husband found them selves in and that would trigger a memory of my own..I could have read the book a lot faster then I did but I was having to much fun with it.. There are some people that you come across that are so easy to please but then again, there are ... Read More
Very Informative and Definitely Funny!
One thing is for sure, no one could have written a book like this and not have gone through it! This author has pretty much detailed everything someone should know and do in order to run a B&B or a small hotel. I had lots of fun reading So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel: A Guide and I'm not looking to run a business either! But I will say this, in just the first few chapters the author had me wanting to have a B&B of my own! She really has taken the time to give you all kinds of information.
Joanne Muller will keep you in stitches, laughing with all the little incidences that happened to her and her husband as examples of what to do and not to do. She explains it so well that you can actually picture it in your mind. I like watching shows on television ... Read More
Fawlty Towers at its best!
So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel is a realistic, anecdotal 'how-to' guide to the hands-on day-to-day running of a small hotel or guest house based on the author's personal experience in the Scottish Borders.
So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel is written with humour and tells it like it is, warts and all, the good things and the nightmares about running a hotel - the dream (with the nightmares!) lived for 11 years at a small hotel or guest house in the Scottish Borders. It's a 'how-to' book with a difference, anecdotal, full of practical, step-by-step advice, with warnings about pitfalls -- a buyer's hotel guide for dummies! Reading So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel: A Guide will give you practical insights into what it is really like to own a small hotel and enable you to decide ... Read More
