Comments for Blog http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk Michael Prager, CEO of the real hotel company plc, writes about hotels and anything else that takes his fancy Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 Comment on Been down so long it looks like up to me. by Guillaume http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/08/01/been-down-so-long-it-looks-like-up-to-me/#comment-61 Guillaume Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:42:13 +0000 http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/08/01/been-down-so-long-it-looks-like-up-to-me/#comment-61 Hi Michael, It would be good if you could add a RSS feed to your blog in order to read your new posts on my news aggregator. Feeburner is usually a good tool to do this. Thanks and keep blogging. Guillaume hotel-blogs.com Hi Michael,

It would be good if you could add a RSS feed to your blog in order to read your new posts on my news aggregator. Feeburner is usually a good tool to do this.

Thanks and keep blogging.

Guillaume
hotel-blogs.com

]]> Comment on The Campaign for The Real Weekend by Michael Prager http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/06/11/the-campaign-for-the-real-weekend/#comment-11 Michael Prager Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:29:45 +0000 http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/06/11/the-campaign-for-the-real-weekend/#comment-11 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 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

]]> Comment on The Campaign for The Real Weekend by rick windas http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/06/11/the-campaign-for-the-real-weekend/#comment-8 rick windas Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:08:13 +0000 http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/06/11/the-campaign-for-the-real-weekend/#comment-8 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 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

]]> Comment on Hello world! by kafgirl06 http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/02/15/hello-world/#comment-4 kafgirl06 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:28:47 +0000 http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/02/15/hello-world/#comment-4 Purple ! Great to know about your out there and wish you all the success in the world ! Your website is wonderful and the blog is a terrific. All the best ! Purple !

Great to know about your out there and wish you all the success in the world !

Your website is wonderful and the blog is a terrific.

All the best !

]]> Comment on Hello world! by craig ogn http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/02/15/hello-world/#comment-3 craig ogn Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:42:58 +0000 http://blog.purplehotels.co.uk/2008/02/15/hello-world/#comment-3 Purple concept has nailed it...hospitality should be fun...serious fun...but fun. Service with a sense of humor..just wow. Who wouldn't want to stay someplace where smiles and laughs are easy and frequent? You are right - F&B is an accounting term...not a guest experience. My pet peeve - and project as a hotelier - is check in on arrival, no matter the time. Everyone knows that there is NO mad mass checkout at noon - a squadron of housekeepers that swarm into the now-empty rooms - then, bingo, one hour later - all the guestrooms are VR. Car rental can do it...so can we (hoteliers). Bravo - I look forward to reading of Purple Hotels' successes. Purple concept has nailed it…hospitality should be fun…serious fun…but fun.

Service with a sense of humor..just wow. Who wouldn’t want to stay someplace where smiles and laughs are easy and frequent?

You are right - F&B is an accounting term…not a guest experience.

My pet peeve - and project as a hotelier - is check in on arrival, no matter the time.

Everyone knows that there is NO mad mass checkout at noon - a squadron of housekeepers that swarm into the now-empty rooms - then, bingo, one hour later - all the guestrooms are VR.

Car rental can do it…so can we (hoteliers).

Bravo - I look forward to reading of Purple Hotels’ successes.

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