Who is your target market?
Extras to offer:
- Tickets to museums (no worries about them being 'sold out')
- Boat excursions
- Babymoon
- Shopping with dinner and a movie
- Tea for Two
- Welcome basket of local products
- Skiing
- Massage
- Wine & cheese tray
I don't like doing the romance pkgs with flowers, etc as I end up spending the whole amount of the pkg on the damn flowers and the rest of it is basically on us. Flowers are prohibitively expensive here. (Unless I drive 40 miles to Whole Foods.).
Thanks, Madeline. I was actually looking for suggestions of things
I can offer for a fee in addition to the room rate. I have only two guest rooms with a shared bath. There is only so much I can offer. We are a small village full of antique and boutique shops with some things to do within driving distance from here, but I think the res fellow was thinking more along the lines of package deals to upsell the inn, and add on things like chocolate covered strawberries for a price, etc. I'm coming up blank.
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Basically, to heck with 'the guy'. Unless he knows your area he knows diddly about what sells. It's not what he thinks, it's what you want to DO.
Get a package with the shops (GC or whatever) add in a lunch. Tack on a % for yourself. You can do a Babymoon. It's essentially whatever you want to put in it. (I used to offer a year long subscription to a parenting magazine, plus a GC for dinner and another one for shopping and a toy for the baby. Put them together as they were booked.)
You can add cheese trays.
'Upselling the inn' is anything you want it to be. The add ons, whether the guest even books them or not, are searchable terms you can use for SEO.
Make the add ons whatever you have the time to do.
I just got an email from a place I stayed with a 'breakfast gift'. Essentially it was a lb of their coffee and a lb of their granola in a cute tote bag. $30. It cost them probably $15.
Everything I listed is something I offer for a fee. You just never know what someone might like!
Come up with a list of things to do in your area and then get together with the owners and make a pkg out of what they offer. Always add on a % for yourself.
If there is nothing to do in your area, why would anyone come there? What do you have 'for sale' there? If guests are only coming to stay with you and do nothing else then you need to know WHO is coming. Age group, type of guest (old, young, money, no money, outdoorsy, indoorsy, etc)
You need to know who is coming to put pkgs together. Altho, as I said, someone may never book the pkg but might just book the room if they found thru pkg thru SEO on your website.
Didn't mean to pick on 'the guy' but unless he has ideas he's willing to share with you then you do whatever you want!
