The Campaign for The Real Weekend
I’ve just achieved another first in my life and bought my first £90 tank of fuel. Accepted, it’s a big tank and it’s diesel so I get to pay more for what I’m told is a more environmentally friendly fuel, which I don’t quite understand, but it’s quite a bit more than I paid this time last year. None of us are immune from the impact of rising oil prices so let’s hope these stabilise or even reduce as the year moves on.
In the meantime, life goes on and life needs a bit of quality as well as continuity. On which note our contribution this month to the quality aspects of why we all work as hard as we do and do as much as we do is to launch our Campaign for The Real Weekend.
When you think about it, the relentless march of technology has meant that for most of us we no longer go to work, work comes to us. So whilst most of us are all earning way more than we were ten years ago our hourly rate has probably gone through the floor, mine has for sure. The fat chap at the bank who used to take care of my accounts is now replaced by a secure password and I get to do it all myself, so that’s an hour a week of extra work. I’ve got this really bad habit of turning my laptop on at 11 o’clock at night, just in case there’s an important message that I really need to deal with (at 11 o’clock at night) and even if there isn’t the blackberry vibrates away until it gets read, day or night.
By the time the weekend comes it can feel more like an essential R&R break than a weekend, so here’s our big idea for the summer. The Campaign for The Real Weekend
Who says the weekend has to be Saturday and Sunday? Since work takes place at any given time of the day or night why can’t the weekend be a bit more flexible? We think it’s anytime between Thursday and Monday and we’ve priced our purplehotels to reflect that. Apparently in Britain we are the most overworked people in the European Union in so far as the number of hours we regularly put in per week. Well done us. We should be proud of that, but shouldn’t we also have the most weekend breaks of anyone in the European Union? I would say that wouldn’t I, but you know it makes sense.
If you’ve got a comment or a thought on this I’d love to hear it, besides that have a really cool weekend away somewhere soon from £39.00 inclusive of breakfast and VAT.
Sign up for The Campaign for The Real Weekend and join the Purple Nation.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:08 am
we have both used your hotels for business travel before now and highly rate them.
however we would currently not use your hotel at weekends as we have a border collie that we detest putting into kennels.
pet friendly hotels are few and far between and probably the best untapped market still around.
you could easily take a large refundable deposit on a room to protect you against any damages, but in our case, my dog has been living in various offices and the various officers messes for years with no problems to date.
if you rethink your strategy on this issue, i would suggest that you publicise it widely, and especially through the various specialist web sites (eg pet friendly hotels.com etc) - NB i have no linl with any sites - i am the business develoment director for a small private health company.
many thanks
rick
June 27th, 2008 at 02:29 pm
OK, you got it. We’ll trial a sensible pets@purple policy over the next few months. No charge, small to medium size animals only (apparently Lord Byron when told he couldn’t keep a dog at Cambridge turned up with a bear), not allowed in food prep or service areas and owners responsible for any damage - we may ask for a small refundable deposit against the possibility of the dog leaving a large non refundable deposit. Details to be published shortly. MP