National TV - Melksham - 9th January 2013, Pre-alert.
In the early Autumn, Lisa and I were recorded for "Four in a Bed" ... the TV show where four different sets of B&B owners throw open their doors and take turns to stay with one another - and pay what they consider fair for their stay. The shows will be aired on Channel 4, from Monday 7th January to Friday 11th January, at 5p.m. ... with the other three groups visiting our "Well House Manor" in Melksham on the Wednesday evening.
We've watched the show over a number of years, and always noticed how each week's accommodations and owners are selected to provide an interesting contrast, with the guests who visit not necessarily being ones who would normally have chosen to visit the town, or to stay at the selected places. All of which makes for entertaining TV.
The new series summary is available on the Channel 4 web site
[here] and more about the series is on the production company's site
[here] (written 2012-12-27, updated 2012-12-29)
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M401 - Well House Manor - Seeing how others do it [17] Differing tastes - (2004-08-17)
[514] Crazy Day-sies - (2005-12-02)
[619] If its Sunday, it must be the Norland - (2006-02-23)
[693] The on line booking experience - (2006-04-21)
[699] Extremes costs of getting on line - (2006-04-25)
[714] Room for Octopuses - (2006-05-08)
[736] New Tape Librarian - (2006-05-28)
[966] CSL, KISS and RTFM - (2006-12-05)
[1011] Well House Manor and Beechfield House, Hotels, Melksham - (2006-12-29)
[1026] The Wheatsheaf 2, The Bell 0 - (2007-01-09)
[1091] The Psyche is all wrong. - (2007-02-24)
[1205] Arrival and Departure experiences - another hotel - (2007-05-26)
[1287] Work and play at Well House Manor - Football and Shell Shortcuts - (2007-08-02)
[1301] Plastic or China - (2007-08-12)
[1333] Kasteel Elsloo - Michelin rated hotel. - (2007-09-05)
[1347] Wireless Internet Access at hotels - an update and some pitfalls - (2007-09-12)
[1354] Match the Bedroom to the Hotel - (2007-09-17)
[1356] Crystal Ball - How long do I need to be online? - (2007-09-18)
[1374] Maidenhead Coffee Challenge - (2007-10-02)
[1406] Away or home - which do I prefer? - (2007-10-25)
[1413] The little gestures that can really count - (2007-10-27)
[1454] From Sunday to Monday, from Melksham to the Balkans - (2007-12-03)
[1458] The wrong way to put up prices - (2007-12-05)
[1525] Just one thing let the service down - but that is my memory - (2008-01-31)
[1547] New bathing idea for hotels from Hotelympia - (2008-02-20)
[1597] Comparing hotels - as a guest and from the proprietors view - (2008-04-01)
[1672] The Composting Cone Challenge - (2008-06-10)
[1758] Lindors Hotel, near St. Briavels, Wye Valley - (2008-08-18)
[1915] Quietly putting prices up - (2008-12-02)
[2007] Launch of Melksham Food and Drink Festival - (2009-01-24)
[2105] Hire Car, from Atlanta Airport - (2009-03-27)
[2127] Call in the professionals! - (2009-04-12)
[2308] A new place in pictures - (2009-07-28)
[2311] Floor to ceiling - (2009-07-30)
[2413] Sanity checking the price, and selling up to increase income - (2009-09-21)
[2441] Not your cup of tea? - (2009-10-08)
[2502] Monday night, Tuesday night - (2009-11-13)
[2885] Twenty Questions - (2010-07-24)
[2911] Feeding the Grockles - (2010-08-09)
[3054] Longhope Hotel - (2010-11-16)
[3333] Honesty and a friendly welcome goes a long way - (2011-06-25)
[3368] Well House Manor hotel, Melksham - recommended to you by our customers - (2011-07-23)
[3754] Eyes Wide Open - (2012-06-06)
[3776] Some traps it's so easy to fall into in designing your web site - (2012-06-23)
[3794] Should hotel staff sit on the toilet in the customer bedrooms? - (2012-07-02)
[3900] The Xxxxx Guest House in Xxxxxxxxxxx - my stay reviewed - (2012-10-20)
[3970] Comparing four VERY different places to stay - (2013-01-11)
[3975] Being an amateur hotel inspector helps me run a professional hotel - (2013-01-14)
[4058] The highs and lows of customer service - Cheltenham - (2013-04-03)
[4081] Pushing down the advertised price, pushing up the total price charged. - (2013-05-08)
[4091] A reminder of why we opened Well House Manor for our customers - (2013-05-17)
[4093] More things to make sure that we do NOT do ... - (2013-05-18)
[4109] What might you find at a tiny bed and breakfast? - (2013-06-03)
[4177] Setting and publishing your hours to suit your customer base - (2013-09-18)
[4245] It always happens to me when I'm in Borehamwood! - (2014-03-06)
[4255] Making a personal gain from a more expensive business hotel stay - (2014-04-02)
[4321] Are administration / review charges on hotel guests acceptable? - (2014-11-20)
[4348] Taking my life in my hands in Swansea - (2014-12-11)
[4373] A long and disappointing evening - (2014-12-30)
[4443] Seventh stay away this year - and it's still only February! - (2015-02-25)
M350 - Well House Manor - project diary [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
[555] Hotel novelties - (2006-01-05)
[571] Well House Manor - (2006-01-21)
[677] Sympathetic development - (2006-04-09)
[720] Planning a hotel refurb - an example of a Gant chart in PHP - (2006-05-14)
[721] Residential - (2006-05-15)
[739] The eye - (2006-05-31)
[744] We can offer a room, but we can't operate on a dog - (2006-06-05)
[756] Seeing the bricks for the trees - (2006-06-11)
[776] Naming Rooms - (2006-06-24)
[816] Above the parapit, Well House Manor - (2006-07-28)
[844] Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-08-24)
[855] Fitting our bathrooms - (2006-09-04)
[858] From the Manor written - (2006-09-07)
[862] 4 weeks to go - (2006-09-11)
[881] Coming together. - (2006-09-29)
[890] Open - (2006-10-09)
[894] Where quality costs less - (2006-10-15)
[902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham - (2006-10-22)
[931] Before and After - Well House Manor - (2006-11-18)
[932] A tale of a wee wall - (2006-11-19)
[941] Snagging - (2006-11-24)
[1069] Rail trouble forced me to buy hotel - (2007-02-07)
[1087] Telling a story in different ways - (2007-02-20)
[1098] Three big events - TWSW, Business of the year and the police - (2007-03-03)
[1211] A lot has happened in a year - (2007-05-31)
[1975] Well House Manor Hotel - on plan for 2009 business guests - (2009-01-03)
[3014] Well House Manor - the next six years - (2010-10-24)
[3585] The changing Hotel and Bed and Breakfast business in Melksham - (2012-01-18)
[3645] Keeping our hotel looking like new, by using our gained experience - (2012-03-09)
[3847] The Accidental Hotelier - (2012-08-24)
[3968] Expecting nothing, but prepared for anything - (2013-01-05)
[4012] A course is not just for a year - its for a career - (2013-02-20)
[4739] A year of changes for Lisa and Graham Ellis, and Well House - (2017-05-27)
M107 - Well House Manor Newsreel [2076] A New Advert for Well House Manor - (2009-03-11)
[2424] A Winter Weekend Special at Well House Manor - (2009-09-26)
[2984] Customer Review - Hotel Room, Melksham - (2010-10-03)
[3405] Where do businessmen stay in Melksham? - (2011-08-25)
[3505] Well House Manor - Winter Warmers - Open 7 days a week, 11 to 5 ++ - (2011-11-01)
[3535] Melksham, Luxury Hotel Rooms, Christmas. - (2011-12-02)
[3586] Emergency First Aid Provision at Well House Manor - part of the service - (2012-01-19)
[3821] Well House Manor at Dawn ... and later in the day - (2012-07-28)
[3827] Melksham Community Apple Pressing Day - (2012-08-05)
[3828] Pimms and Croquet in Edwardian Melksham - 8th September 2012 - Food Festival Event - (2012-08-05)
[3834] Geekmas 2012 - celebrating open source languages such as Perl, PHP and Python - (2012-08-11)
[3858] The apple crop of 2012 - (2012-09-15)
[3883] Apple Pressing Day 2012 - (2012-10-07)
[3965] Well House Manor, Melksham - on national TV next week - (2012-12-30)
[3967] Hotel bedroom - even larger TV! - (2013-01-04)
[4101] POETS day at Well House Manor - (2013-05-24)
[4116] International Melksham - industry, and beautiful countryside - (2013-06-15)
[4183] Reaching a hotel standard where 99% of guests would return - and maintaining that standard - (2013-10-01)
[4262] Updated staff systems helps us look after our customers better - (2014-04-11)
[4358] A brilliant finish to 2014 training and business guests, and a look to 2015 - (2014-12-20)
[4543] Saturday morning at Well House Manor - (2015-10-17)
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