Things from the perspective of a hospitality owner

Guesthouse owner: As we cordially welcome you to our guest house / bed-and-breakfast, and indeed hope you have a most enjoyable stay, we hope to boast of being some sort of a refuge of yours- to help you escape the everyday pressures of life! You shall ‘find yourself’ once again!

Let me guess- you are probably going to write a review of our property on TripAdvisor.com. We almost expect you to do that. All year round, are you finding your home life to be very demanding, in terms of upkeep? Well, we propose to be some sort of a contrast to that then!

Have you ever quantified care for your household? Are you finding it to be a burden, sometimes? Apart from the obviously spiritual, psychological, emotional aspects of inhabiting your usual domestic space at home, there are inevitably the highly practical sides of maintaining your own house or flat, whether you are paying mortgage or rent regularly. What is a hassle-free way of dealing with all that, then? Is there ever a hassle-free way round it all?

Is there so much housework at home sometimes that, you feel like you are working, at home, cooking a meal, after you were working all day long? You pay for someone to clean your home for you? How will you sustain the funding to pay the working wages for this person, then? Challenges in funding this activity means that many householders simply do the housework themselves, instead of hiring external help from a cleaning agency or an individual.

We dare to say that we provide some sort of haven of peace and enjoyment, if only because we take the work, away from your holiday! You won’t even involve yourself with the hassle of sorting trash, and throwing out the big bag of household trash! You are not going to be getting sore backs, sore arms, and fatigue, even from simple activities like sweeping the floor until the debris has come off, and mopping the floor until the cleanliness situation is satisfactory to you! At home, you cannot avoid the task of clearing the table, and wiping the table clean- one way or the other, dirty things have to be made clean. We do that for you!

We operate an entire army of housekeepers, cleaners, and seasonal assistants to keep our guest house in good order, ensuring that all the crucial work gets done – repairing hinges of cupboards before loose things become a problem, installing curtains and you could be surprised at how time-consuming it is, scrubbing bathtubs so that you do not need to think about it, and generally doing everything else to ensure that you do not end up getting repetitive strain injury from undertaking too much housework yourself. If you are not impressed, be impressed! Little things speak volumes, dare I say! We give medals to our top cleaners, and send them on holidays too.

Criticisms of Xin Tian Hao Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家) in Prague

The following is a review of Xin Tian Hao Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家), by a customer.

For a start, the name of this Chinese restaurant (新天豪酒家) is so pretentious. It reeks of a craving for grandeur, wealth, privileges, exclusivity, money, desirability, a sparkly lifestyle, all these are things that are not attained here at this establishment. Woe to the owners of this restaurant, that they call themselves HAO (豪) but they certainly do not have the table settings, furnishings, and other facilities to go with it. Even the paper napkins of the restaurant are of the crude, rough type and as for the salt mill, pepper mill, the containers of soya sauce and chilli sauce are not even made of glass- they are plastic, which is inferior. I am not saying that there is anything bad about being cheap and tacky, but fundamentally all these tacky elements destroy the name of the restaurant itself. So the founder of this restaurant aspires to such high levels of wealth, privilege, grandness, but never got there, he/she has always fallen short of it.

I am critical of this restaurant’s branding/ logo. It just looks like the graphic designer hasn’t done any work on it at all. They have a dire identity crisis as this is a Chinese restaurant offering sushi which is Japanese, not Chinese. As for the meal that a friend and I had, it is not restaurant-grade at least by the standards of Britain, France and China. It is nothing that I couldn’t have cooked, for myself, at home, and almost all of my cousins cook more delicious food than that, at home. They have never even worked as chefs. They all work full-time, doing something else unrelated.

My friend was reading a book at some point. Lighting was inadequate so I actually switched on a torch at the dinner table. It is neither the romantic candelight sort of dim light setting, nor the bright Chinese restaurant sort of light intensity, to make a book readable.

I conclude that I do not want to go to Xin Tian Hao Restaurant (新天豪酒家) in Prague again. It does not do any justice to China and its richly varied cuisines.

I like to see the employees of DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Bangalore dancing

Perhaps you feel so passionately about brand image/ marketing? 

And how is this dancing? The brand image of Hilton LOL   LOL    LOL

I wish I could see this sort of thing more often . LOL  lol As a consumer, sometimes I just feel really really emotionally manipulated, by so much advertising, everything looking so shiny and perfect. Businesses are constantly blowing their trumpets, banging on about how great they are. But how about me as a human being? I hope I’m more than just the means to make their businesses profitable. 
I want something that’s more…   …         …         … real. 
LOL