A note from Chris, on checkout duty: "Xxxxx has left - very happy with this stay and previous stays. Leaving for promotion in different company."

We don't like to loose regular guests, nor do we like to have irregular guests choose to stay elsewhere if they're in Melksham again - so we look to keep somewhat in touch with our regulars needs, asking if they'll be back, "see you next time" or "will you be down this way again". But with many of our business guests away from the training side, we are not their overall destination and we accept that circumstances will mean that there are occasions where we have to say "goodbye".

Chris's note didn't come out of the blue. I had spoken with Xxxxx a few days ago and was aware that she was moving on, and doing so in a positive way. Isn't that great when there is so much doom and gloom around at the moment? She told me that the nearest offices that her new company has are Xxxxxxxxx (named American city where Lisa and I changed planes a couple of weeks ago!) so it's improbable in the extreme that we'll see her on business.

But also since I wrote my last entry here, we've taken another honeymoon night booking. And with bookings such as that, we *are* the destination - I'm delighted that we've been chosen, double delighted that we're chosen on recommendation, and triple delighted because for this booking we are truly a destination business.

(See here for further "Destination Business" information - if you run a destination business you take the variable of other parties out of the equation. And see here for it in a Melksham chamber of Commerce context!)

(written 2009-04-10 08:11:51)

 G998 - Well House Consultants - Newsletter Highlighted Box
  [2520] Global and Enable - two misused words! - (2009-11-30)
  [2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP? - (2009-09-08)
  [2385] Reading all our recent news from a single source - (2009-08-29)
  [2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK - (2009-06-07)
  [2050] Why the Pony Tail? - (2009-02-21)
  [1967] LinkedIn - Thrice Asked, and joined. - (2008-12-30)
  [1843] How many cups of coffee? - (2008-10-17)
  [1751] Public Training Course Dates until July 2009 - (2008-08-13)
  [1629] A short introduction to our courses - (2008-05-03)
  [1621] Linux and Java Course in London - (2008-04-24)
  [1521] Evening drive across the roof of Wiltshire - (2008-01-27)
  [1475] Tcl/Tk - updating your display while tasks are running - (2007-12-16)
  [1375] Python v Ruby - (2007-10-02)
  [1307] Troy, up state New York - (2007-08-17)
  [1237] What proportion of our web traffic is robots? - (2007-06-19)
  [1132] Well House Manor, Melksham, Art Gallery - (2007-04-02)
  [1068] ls -l report, Linux / Unix - types and permssions - (2007-02-06)
  [1011] Well House Manor and Beechfield House, Hotels, Melksham - (2006-12-29)

M300 - Well House Manor - Behind the scenes
  [2396] Easing off in our 50s? - (2009-09-06)
  [2247] A day in the life of a hotelier - (2009-06-18)
  [1991] Rules for a King - (2009-01-13)
  [1973] Required Request - (2009-01-03)
  [1957] Why are cooks bad tempered? - (2008-12-22)
  [1948] Blame Culture - (2008-12-17)
  [1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes - (2008-11-23)
  [1900] Table Topics - (2008-11-22)
  [1854] Three Seasonal Pictures - (2008-10-25)
  [1637] Providing exceptional service - and carrying on doing so. - (2008-05-09)
  [1571] Await guests in the early hours - (2008-03-12)
  [1520] Terms and Conditions - Hotel, England - plain English - (2008-01-26)
  [1515] Keeping staff up to date on hotel room status - (2008-01-22)
  [1490] Software to record day to day events and keep an action list - (2007-12-31)
  [1441] On cancellations, rebooking, and pricing schemes - (2007-11-22)
  [1371] Hotel in Melksham at Christmas - (2007-09-29)
  [1369] One business, four different angles! - (2007-09-28)
  [1319] Customer feedback - lifeblood of a business - (2007-08-25)
  [1311] What do people look for on a hotel web site? - (2007-08-20)
  [1285] In the army, or in civvie street? - (2007-07-31)
  [1189] Meet, greet and welcome - (2007-05-16)
  [1179] Sizing sheets and other domestic issues - (2007-05-07)
  [1159] It can take more that one plus one to get two. - (2007-04-22)
  [1105] A week is a long time in the life of a conference centre - (2007-03-10)
  [1083] Behind the scenes - (2007-02-17)
  [1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18)
  [951] What happened at Geekmas - (2006-11-28)
  [939] Swipe cards for hotel rooms - Security issues - (2006-11-23)
  [931] Before and After - Well House Manor - (2006-11-18)
  [927] Hotel door furniture - (2006-11-15)
  [897] Too much for the National Trust - (2006-10-18)
  [868] Smoking, or no - (2006-09-16)
  [813] Monday Morning at Well House Consultants Melksham - (2006-07-24)
  [769] King Edward VII - days of empire - (2006-06-20)
  [742] A visit from the solicitor - (2006-06-03)
  [677] Sympathetic development - (2006-04-09)
  [203] Holes in on line information - (2005-02-05)

M100 - Introduction to Well House Manor
  [2425] Weekend and Christmas Promotion - Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham - (2009-09-26)
  [2119] Make your business a DESTINATION business - (2009-04-05)
  [2076] A New Advert for Well House Manor - (2009-03-11)
  [1975] Well House Manor Hotel - on plan for 2009 business guests - (2009-01-03)
  [1968] Review of 2008 - (2008-12-31)
  [1866] What a difference a day made - (2008-11-02)
  [1706] The Story of Well House Manor - (2008-07-12)
  [1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news - (2008-01-01)
  [1388] Well House Manor - a year on - (2007-10-12)
  [1384] An email update for past guests and delegates - (2007-10-08)
  [1332] Melksham Hotel - Five Star Kitchen! - (2007-09-04)
  [1261] High summer at Well House Manor - (2007-07-08)
  [1211] A lot has happened in a year - (2007-05-31)
  [1112] Bank Holiday country breaks in Melksham, Wiltshire - (2007-03-17)
  [1072] Well House Manor in the Snow - (2007-02-09)
  [1069] Rail trouble forced me to buy hotel - (2007-02-07)
  [1018] Open Source Courses and Business Hotel - products and prices for 2007 - (2007-01-01)
  [1002] Meet the neighbours - (2006-12-20)
  [978] Wellhouse Manor, Hotel, Melksham - (2006-12-10)
  [940] Winter at Well House Manor - Open Houses - (2006-11-23)
  [902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham - (2006-10-22)
  [891] Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-10-10)
  [793] The Wilts and Berks Canal - (2006-07-05)
  [756] Seeing the bricks for the trees - (2006-06-11)
  [571] Well House Manor - (2006-01-21)
  [512] Exciting futures - the Well House Manor project - (2005-11-30)

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