So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel!: A Guide

by Joanne Muller, Charles Humphrey Muller M.A., Ph.D. (Editor)

Overview

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 guesthouse based on author Joanne Muller's personal experience in the Scottish Borders.

So 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595200955
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/01/2001
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.53(d)

Table of Contents

	Dedication	v
	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
Chapter 1	First Things First	1
Chapter 2	Buying Your Small Hotel	7
Chapter 3	Of Tourist Boards and Advertising!	27
Chapter 4	All that luvelly lolly! So what can I charge?	50
Chapter 5	Reservations: taking bookings and registering guests	60
Chapter 6	Fodder--feeding the herd! Breakfast	68
Chapter 7	Dinners (the easy way!)--Bar (hic!)	77
Chapter 8	The Kitchen--where it all happens!	94
Chapter 9	To sleep, perchance to dream--or in plain English, Bedrooms!	99
Chapter 10	The epitome of boredom--Bookkeeping!	109
Chapter 11	Repeat Trade--Knowing you got it right!	118
Chapter 12	From Strength to Strength: Refurbishment, Development & Expansion!	125
Chapter 13	Competitors or allies?	139
Chapter 14	Pernicious Allsorts	142
Chapter 15	So do I really want a small hotel? (A few good reasons to make you think again!)	154
Chapter 16	The Ideal Hotel	163
Chapter 17	Typical seven days!	166
	Conclusions	175
	About the Author	177
	Appendix	179