Do I want to show people, proudly, all the works we've done on Well House Manor and how it's now such a different place?
Of course I do. But at the same time I don't want to discourage visitors who happen upon our web site and see the old rather than the new.
So ... for those of you who are interested, we've put up a page of before AND after pictures - or rather a site of three pages. Start
here with external picture and click through "add more pictures" until you end up
here with internal, externals, before and afters!
These two pictures, samples from our 'renovation' site, are both taken of the room now known as bedroom 5. Dated decor, worn out plumbing, lighting and fixtures, fittings and electric has all been replaced by a quality modern look, and we're proud to have turned a B&B that was getting mixed reviews into a hotel that's already attracting return guests within the first weeks of opening.
Until 31st December, we're offering rooms at Well House Manor at 60 pounds a night (single occupancy) and 80 pounds (double occupancy) to include a continental breakfast.
link - details. These are 'silly cheap' prices as we're in our settling in period and there are a few final touches to be added yet. We're also - until the end of the year - marketing only to our
course delegates although we'll accept other general bookings too if you would care to get in touch.
The main web site is in embryonic form at the moment .... but there'll be a booking system, room tours and more up there by the new year.
(written 2006-11-18, updated 2009-01-01)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
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[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)
[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)
[3963] National TV - Melksham - 9th January 2013, Pre-alert. - (2012-12-27)
[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)
M300 - Well House Manor - Behind the scenes [203] Holes in on line information - (2005-02-05)
[742] A visit from the solicitor - (2006-06-03)
[769] King Edward VII - days of empire - (2006-06-20)
[813] Monday Morning at Well House Consultants Melksham - (2006-07-24)
[868] Smoking, or no - (2006-09-16)
[897] Too much for the National Trust - (2006-10-18)
[927] Hotel door furniture - (2006-11-15)
[939] Swipe cards for hotel rooms - Security issues - (2006-11-23)
[951] What happened at Geekmas - (2006-11-28)
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18)
[1083] Behind the scenes - (2007-02-17)
[1105] A week is a long time in the life of a conference centre - (2007-03-10)
[1159] It can take more that one plus one to get two. - (2007-04-22)
[1179] Sizing sheets and other domestic issues - (2007-05-07)
[1189] Meet, greet and welcome - (2007-05-16)
[1285] In the army, or in civvie street? - (2007-07-31)
[1311] What do people look for on a hotel web site? - (2007-08-20)
[1319] Customer feedback - lifeblood of a business - (2007-08-25)
[1369] One business, four different angles! - (2007-09-28)
[1371] Hotel in Melksham at Christmas - (2007-09-29)
[1441] On cancellations, rebooking, and pricing schemes - (2007-11-22)
[1490] Software to record day to day events and keep an action list - (2007-12-31)
[1515] Keeping staff up to date on hotel room status - (2008-01-22)
[1520] Terms and Conditions - Hotel, England - plain English - (2008-01-26)
[1571] Await guests in the early hours - (2008-03-12)
[1637] Providing exceptional service - and carrying on doing so. - (2008-05-09)
[1854] Three Seasonal Pictures - (2008-10-25)
[1900] Table Topics - (2008-11-22)
[1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes - (2008-11-23)
[1948] Blame Culture - (2008-12-17)
[1957] Why are cooks bad tempered? - (2008-12-22)
[1973] Required Request - (2009-01-03)
[1991] Rules for a King - (2009-01-13)
[2125] We have lost a regular business guest - (2009-04-10)
[2247] A day in the life of a hotelier - (2009-06-18)
[2396] Easing off in our 50s? - (2009-09-06)
[2910] Robust - testing the system - (2010-08-09)
[2916] Testing the robustness of our hotel and training systems - holiday and sickness times - (2010-08-11)
[2960] The Well House team - September 2010 - (2010-09-19)
[2961] Initial handling of phone calls and walk in visitors - (2010-09-19)
[3093] How many toilet rolls - hotel inventory and useage - (2010-12-18)
[3743] Sunday - no longer a day of rest - (2012-05-28)
[3844] Rooms ready for guests - each time, every time, thanks to good system design - (2012-08-20)
[3961] Well House Staff Party - (2012-12-22)
[4302] Sunday is never quiet at Well House Manor - (2014-09-21)
[4365] The changing face of Christmas - (2014-12-26)
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