Monday, October 25, 2010

Hotels: the Good quality, the awful and the horrible

With millions of hotels around the world, the hotel industry is definitely very aggressive. There are hotels charging thousands of pounds per individual, per night - catering purely for the rich, famous and lavish. Yet on the whole opposite end of the spectrum, there are 100% eco friendly hotels, built towering up in trees, relying on nature to provide everything needed. All sorts of hotels can be immensely successful in their own right, constantly booked up and praised by all.

However for every successful hotel which offers items like London brunch there are many more unsure, disastrous and failing hotels, struggling on day by day, praying for something to come along and magically turn them around. Speaking to anyone around the world with a bit of traveling experience will undeniably have a few amusing anecdotes or horrifying tales about previous encounters with hotels from hell.

Unluckily for the smaller, sovereign hotel, it is very easy to get sucked into fierce cycles where customers are be put off by tedious and drab decor and slightly run down exteriors. Yet due to the lack of custom, owners are skeptical or nervous about taking out risky loans in order to carry out refurbishments. It is all too easy to become a repetitive place to stay, lacking in character which resembles hotels commonly found at motorway service stations.

What can be done for a hotel wanting to insert a new lease of life into its veins? Well a fresh pair of eyes is a good initiate, many minor things that could be easily fixed yet create bad first impressions can be highlighted and rectified. Secondly a spring clean will show off your hotel in its best light. Thirdly upping staff honest can generate a world of difference, smiling, bubbly staff will reflect in customers, making life easier for everyone.

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