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  1. Arks

    I Get a Raise!!

    When inflation talk picked up steam a few months ago, I began carefully monitoring the rates at the local Days Inn, which have remained unchanged since I began monitoring. They are the only real alternative in town to my place; that is, I think people who would stay at my place would probably go...
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    Duvet vs blanket and other stuff from vacation

    Glad you had a great vacation! I've found very friendly folks all over the British Isles, with the Irish taking the grand prize. I use bottom and top sheets under the duvet, strictly because I've gotten hot under the duvets in UK and don't like that the only options are duvet or nothing on top...
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    What would you do? Who right?

    Amen! Prices should only be shown in one place, on the booking page after they've entered arrival/departure dates. For one thing, that eliminates the possibility that you'll forget to update the rates on some other page on your website, and it eliminates the headache of keeping multiple...
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    Wordpress Captcha?

    So far, 24 hours after the changes, I've gone from 7 contact form spams/hour (all from the same "person") to 0 spams in 24 hours! So it fixed things for now. For now. I'll sure be taking a look at Akismet and Flamingo is problems return. And I'm sure they will return, from one spammer or...
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    Wordpress Captcha?

    Honeypot is a really imaginative solution. No captcha appears on the form. Instead, Honeypot puts an invisible field on the form, so real people don't fill it in. But the hidden field IS visible to the bots, which think it's a required field so the bot fills it in. The webform doesn't get...
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    Wordpress Captcha?

    Thanks all. I'll work on it!
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    Wordpress Captcha?

    For years, for my website Contact form, I've successfully used the Google captcha that requires you to, for example, select every image that contains a traffic light, or whatever. Starting last week I receive about 30 contact form emails/day bragging that they beat my captcha and offering to...
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    Guests Are Changing...

    Exactly. Some guests are great. Some are horrible. Most fall somewhere in the middle. The great ones are so easy to clean up after, it kind of averages out the extra work the horrible ones need. Rarely, I'll give a housekeeper a bonus for cleaning up after a real slob, but generally we just...
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    Keypads and Keys

    Oh, I quickly offered them a free refund if they wanted to move to the local Days Inn (only other choice). The crazy woman accepted the refund, but the husband said, "No, if I wanted Days Inn, I would have booked there." So I was stuck with them, because calling the police to evict them was too...
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    Keypads and Keys

    Since I live a 10 minute drive from my inn, I've always used self-check-in for my guests. I email them a door key pad code when they make the reservation, with instructions to find and enter their room when they arrive. The locks can be opened either with a key pad code or a real key. I've never...
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    Fail to Plan... Plan to Fail

    There's nothing local in my price range, and I love, in an evil way, to refer them to the local Days Inn, which is the best 2nd choice, though half my rate, and just over half my review stars. Next time, plan ahead!
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    I Want to Cancel My Non-Refundable Reservation...

    Making/taking a reservation is like a contract. They agree to pay you. You agree to hold that room for them and turn down others who want it. Neither party should break the contract on short* notice. ____________________________________ * and the reservation policy defines, up front, what the...
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    Fail to Plan... Plan to Fail

    Yes, definitely! I'd go ahead now and set pricing in ResKey for this time next year. You can always lower it later if you're not getting all the bookings you want. My town is due to have 4+ minutes of total darkness in the April 2024 solar eclipse, so I set special rates for that weekend and...
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    Pleasing the Irish

    Have you considered melting one of your icebergs? ;)
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    Pleasing the Irish

    Ha! I did Google kitchen faucet bacteria and found this... So a shower faucet in the kitchen would also be full of bacteria. It seems all faucets are full of bacteria.
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    What ARE the Chances?

    There are enough hours in the night and morning to charge them both. Congratulations on all the attention! My Tesla charger is on its own meter so I know what it's costing me. For the first few years it was about $16/month (the electric company's minimum monthly charge). Lately it's costing me...
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    Inflation!

    Ha ha ha! Oh, you were serious? :ROFLMAO: I doubt our costs will go down now that they are up, but they might eventually level off and return to the 3%/year inflation rate we were used to.
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    Bed and Breakfast Insurance

    A couple of months ago, I got a letter from the insurance company I've used since I opened in 2013, saying effective June 15 they will no longer insure nightly rental properties. I contacted my local insurance agent, who had handled my policy all these years, and asked them to find me another...
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    Inflation!

    Has anybody done any calculating on what the inflation is costing us,for supplies, and I suppose utilities and everything else. Right now I'm absorbing it all myself, but at some point I'll have to raise my rates and pass it along to the guests. I just don't know when that point is! I watch...
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    Pleasing the Irish

    Of course. It's all the same. Even the water in the toilet tank is clean. The tank, not the bowl...big difference! It's all chlorinated here.
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