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The changing Hotel and Bed and Breakfast business in Melksham

It still surprises me how quickly things change in the hotel and catering business. But I suppose it shouldn't. When we opened our training centre in Melksham in 2000 there were numerous places that ...

Melksham Training Centre and Hotel internet speed - how does it compare?

How fast is your broadband connection? I bench marked our connection at our Training Centre and hotel this morning, using theUswitch test site and the results are shown on this graph. With fast ...

Well House Manor - perhaps the best hotel rooms in Melksham

A beautiful, sunny morning ... and the first morning in a very long time that most of our bedrooms were unoccupied - so an excellent chance to take (and show you) up to date pictures. Bedroom 1 ...

Looking for hotel rooms in Melksham over Christmas? We still have some availabiity

The Christmas season comes to Well House Manor - we'll be open throughout the Christmas and New Year periods - an ideal quieter spot for people who are visiting friends and relatives to Chill out. ...

Melksham, Luxury Hotel Rooms, Christmas.

Are your family coming to visit you in Melksham over the Christmas period? Do you have room for them to stay with you at home? If you're going to be a bit cramped, why not have them stay with us at ...

Well House Manor hotel, Melksham - recommended to you by our customers

We offer overnight (hotel) accommodation at Well House Manor - and we take pride in providing high quality rooms for business and leisure guests who are visiting Melksham. Many of our visitors "vote ...

Cash and Cheque policy - UK Hotel

With the demise of the cheque guarantee card in the UK, we've updated our cash payment policy for Well House Manor ... "If you do not wish to guarantee a room with a credit or debit card, and are not ...

Moving on - a task for the hotel staff!

Six beds (and seven bedrooms) in six nights ... this is one heck of a week if you wondered why my blog has dropped to a trickle. Sunday night at home, Monday in Cheltenham where (for the first time in ...

Dog, hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire?

This is Chloe. In the garden at Well House Manor - our hotel in Melksham, Wiltshire. Policy until recently was "no pets" ... but Chloe's owner was booked into another local hotel who ...

Does Well House Manor Hotel in Melksham offer lots of discounts?

Should we inflate our prices so we can then offer an array of discounts to balance business, or simply quote a single, easy-to-understand tariff? It's a discussion that Lisa and I have had many ...

Come as a customer, leave as a friend - Well House Manor, Hotel, Wiltshire

Easter Morning - breakfast for guests at Well House Manor. Afternoon - a walk down to the Kennet and Avon Canal (loads more pictures to follow). "Come as a customer, leave as a friend." It's a long ...

Sharing a single hotel internet connection without carrying extra hardware

We have a wired internet connection here in our hotel in Frankfurt, and we're paying X Euros per day for the use of it. The publicity says "up to 2 Mac addresses", but the practice is that it's ...

Hotel star ratings - towards a better system of review

"Star Ratings at hotels face the axe" says a headline in the Daily Express. "Hotel star ratings are to be scrapped because they are 'out of date' it emerged yesterday. Instead, guests will rely on ...

Perl, Python, PHP, Lua, Linux, and more - and business hotel too. Menu for 2011

Whar are our plans for 2011? "Steady as she goes", I think - a gentle year of building on all we've achieved in the past year, and all that has developed in the last six months. Our hotel at Well ...

Hotel and Training Course prices - the effect of the VAT rise on 4th January 2011

Our training course rates for 2011 will remain (net) unaltered from 2010 - although the VAT increase from 17.5% to 20% means that invoice totals will rise slightly. Most of our customers can reclaim ...

How many toilet rolls - hotel inventory and useage

Running Well House Manor, we buy a lot of hotel supplies - ranging from sheets and towels when they are to be replaced, through guest soaps and toilet rolls, salt, sugar and jams which are ordered ...

Longhope Hotel

There's something experimental about this post. You'll wonder why I'm talking about hotel and accommodation facilities in a village in the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, or in the Orkneys, and ...

Customer Review - Hotel Room, Melksham

I love being in the training business ... and in the business of providing hotel rooms for business visitors and leisure guests. For we meet some lovely people, and we get a chance to make their ...

Christmas 2010 - Well House Manor, Melksham, Hotel

Well House Manor will be open throughout the Christmas and New Year period, and we'll be delighted to welcome guests who are in the area to visit friends and family, to see the Christmas ...

Cheap Country Hotel in Melksham, Wiltshire?

I received an email, telling me what a good web site design we have (I'm flattered) but also informing me that the author thinks we're not performing very well on search engine ranking. He writes: ...

Well House Manor - the history of the hotel

Well House Manor was built in 1906, as a home, on a 3/4 acre plot on what was then the outskirts of a much smaller Melksham. Originally, the staircase lead up from the right of the entrance door, and ...

Not so much software training - more hotel keeping!

These last few days, I've changed from being a software trainer to being a hotel keeper, a conference co-ordinator, a breakfast chef, a staffing organiser, and a sales and marketing person for hotel ...

Testing the robustness of our hotel and training systems - holiday and sickness times

"No matter what's going on behind the scenes, the customer comes first". Grand theory - but what does that say in practice? It says that a company such as ourselves should have sufficient robustness ...

Local information for Melksham Hotel Guests

If you're visiting a new part of the country, what better than to have a selection of magazines and newspapers that cover the area available, so that you can browse and see what's going on? So we ...

Hotel booking in Melksham made easy!

I've given the Well House Manor Hotel Site an overdue lick of paint today, and upgraded the staff facing reports from the pages too. And the changes are all about easy navigation, easily finding what ...

Does my course include breakfast, lunch, dinner and a hotel room?

You can book your course, and include a room to stay overnight with us though the course at Well House Manor (that's ideal for delegates who don't live nearby), or you can book as a day delegate - if ...

Melksham Hotel, B and B or business accommodation?

What IS "Well House Manor"? The following is a draft of what I'll be saying at the Food and Drink festival launch tomorrow morning .. posted here because it gives as really good overview of what we ...

Excellent staff make for excellent hotel

What makes a good hotel? Good facilities, and good staff. And what makes an excellent hotel? Excellent facilities, and excellent staff. We have an excellent team - I (Graham) am pictured here, ...

Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010

Happy New Decade, everyone! And thank you for your support and business through the last one. This year, we'll be celebarating the 10th Anniversary of our courses in Melksham, and we're now in our ...

Friendly Hotel in Melksham, near Bath

Lisa emailed me a link to a web site listing dog-friendly hotels for our own future use when traveling. Now for Betty and Phil, a hotel that's dog friendly is a blessing, but by contrast Gordon and ...

Four aspects - Chamber, Transport, Courses and Hotel

Our main business is in Open Source computer training - reaching people how to program in Perl, PHP and Python, in Lua, Ruby and Tcl, and on related subjects such as the MySQL database and the Linux ...

Melksham Hotel Rooms - pictures

We have chosen to show pictures of ALL of the bedrooms at Well House Manor on the Well House Manor website. We're not unique in this, but it is not the common practise; for sure, we could have just ...

Weekend and Christmas Promotion - Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham

We've been busy at weekends at Well House Manor this summer - a notable increase in business, and this weekend we have returning guests once again, which is always a good sign. But we're conscious ...

Hotel Booking Scam / Cost of calls to 070 numbers

In my email, a juicy hotel booking ... 10 days for five double rooms ... which we shall not be accepting. Dear Sir/Ma, I am Andrea Paula,I write to introduce our Ministry " His Grace Ministries". ...

A day in the life of a hotelier

It's been an exhausting day ... ... and it isn't even 3 p.m. yet. Breakfast for five and all checked out. Meeting for 3. Coffee service and meeting for 8. Lunch for 7. ... ... still to ...

Mobile Internet - an alternative to hotel WiFi

I'm no longer playing "Hunt the Wifi" network, nor "Guess how long you want to connect" or "Which signal will last" when I'm away within the UK ... having spent 200 pounds on access through various ...

Well House Manor Hotel - on plan for 2009 business guests

Three years ago, we were contemplating the "Well House Manor" project. An offer had been made on "The Old Manor" B&B with a view to turning it into delegate and businessman accommodation for our ...

2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices

Well House Manor / Well House Consultants - prices for 2009 (valid from December 2008) Bedrooms / Overnight These prices are inclusive of VAT, at the new rate or 15% Bedroom, Double Occupancy. 90 ...

Melksham Hotel Rates

Melksham Hotel Rates - Well House Manor - VAT changes We're passing on the reduction in VAT rates to our customer; with immediate effect, room rates at Well House Manor are reduced to: 90 pounds per ...

Which is your best hotel room?

"Which Room would you recommend for a special weekend ..." Question on the phone from customer booking at Well House Manor. And Lisa's comment - "I feel awkward giving my personal opinion - it may ...