Just in from Barry at the Fame who’s a little cheesed off to say the least.
We can’t blame him really.
We’d be interested to hear more from Visit Britain members and, of course, we’ll present all comments – good or bad (though we do have our own views on why they simply are not good for seaside towns).
Oh….we’re hearing snippets of information that they are going to be moving the goalposts yet again – more on this when we verify it.
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Hi Yes Hotel Members,
It is whinge time, we has just had our 5th VisitBritain Inspection. 5 years ago we were classed as a low grade 3*, this hotel had never graded before we came and it was the pits. Now we have a new Inspector for the Blackpool area but she is not like the nice lady on the telly – I think she is a *****. We have spent £186,000 on our hotel taking it up to a very high standard, but on 27th July we had an overnight stay, to say we got slapped in the face with a wet fish is an understatement!
Our breakfast menu consists of 8 choices of cereal, grapefruit, prunes, yoghurts, eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, toms , mushrooms , hash browns, toast (brown or white ) & preserves , tea / coffee. But now we are told we should have more variety and, wait for it, offer smoked salmon with Scrambled eggs.
Our bathrooms are not large enough, towels need to be changed to bath sheets, Egyptian cotton sheets for bed linen, we only use 3* duvet covers , We must provide a higher grade of biscuits in the rooms (Foxes or equivalent), hot chocolate , fruit flavour tea etc.
Oh yes and put higher grade carpets in rooms.
All this for just £50.00 per night per double room!
We are now rated as a high grade 3*, Can anyone tell us the difference please, (answers on a postcard) we are either a 3* or not?
Next year I am making my own sign to be placed below my Yes Hotels sign , it will have 5 Pork Pies on it, just to see if it brings anymore business in. The 3 *** certainly don’t seem to!
My whinge is over now but please all you VisitBritain members be warned! This woman, did I mention that I think she is a *****, always finds something, is it really worth £350.00 per year to be told every year you are no better and that you must spend yet another small fortune that makes no commercial sense with no chance of getting your money back just to maintain your rating?
Barry Hall, The Fame, South Promenade.
