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Some advantages of owning your own small hotel or guesthouse
Some advantages of owning your own small hotel or
guesthouse by Carolyn Muller
So many people think that buying a small hotel would be a nice
place to retire to. Any hotel owner will probably be struck
dumb, momentarily at least, when hearing this statement. Well,
it will either give them a new lease of life or bump them off
very quickly! Let's not be negative - there are lots of
advantages. Here are a few:
Escape the Rat Race! No more standing in a crowded
train/underground/bus on your way to work! No more sitting bored
to tears in your car on a cold and misty morning while the
traffic queues grow bigger and bigger. Ice, snow, rain - it
doesn't matter. You just hop out of bed, fall down the stairs
and hey presto! - you're there, at work. You may even get an
extra hour in bed compared to what you have now. I rise at 7.30
a.m. I'll bet a lot of you rise earlier than me!
Forget that Monday-morning feeling. (In a sense, every
day is Monday - or whatever other day of the week you choose to
make it!). It's your business so Mondays, as such, don't
exist
Forget the winter blues - that's if your hotel is seasonal like
mine. My husband and I just love winter. Winter is our
time off - time to relax, indulge in a hobby like painting, and
take a package holiday to the sun.
Most people have weekends off and a fortnight to three weeks
holiday once a year. With a seasonal hotel you have much more
time off. You can really get your teeth into your hobby. Go for
walks, read, write, golf, paint - whatever takes your fancy.
(Both my husband and I paint and we've filled the walls of the
public rooms with our oil paintings, many of which are bought by
guests during the season.)
You could even have a small apartment somewhere nice and warm
and disappear for those nasty winter months. It's cheaper to
stay somewhere warm (like Malta or the Canaries) and you can let
the apartment out to pay for itself in the summer. Indulge
yourself! Hey, you could even hibernate!
You're dealing with happy people (this should appeal to doctors
and dentists)! The chances are you will be buying a hotel for
tourists and people are generally happy on holiday - with the
possible exception of Americans who can be aggressive consumers
and can take their holidays too seriously!
You're working for yourself. YOU are in control of your own
destiny. The world's your oyster; the sky's the limit. Once
you've tasted the pleasure of being your own boss you'll never
work for anyone ever again. You can give reign to your
entrepreneurial skill and forge from strength to strength, or
you can be laid back and limp along as long as you make enough
to make ends meet. The chances are you're not
the latter since -
yes, running a hotel is hard work.
Your business comes to you. Your car can stay in the garage. The
weather can do what it likes. Cut down on motoring expenses -
even sell the car!
There is no hard sell. On the whole people want to stay.
You don't have to phone them and cajole them into staying - they
phone you!
There are no debts. People pay up front - if you're sensible
that is.
A small hotel can be a wonderful stepping-stone and secure base
for starting a new home-based business such as mail order or
even enabling a hobby you have always fancied mushrooming into a
business of its own. The telephone is at hand. You're there all
the time in the season to work at a second business for a few
hours a day and get more out of it in the winter when time is
your own. Phasing in a business this way certainly cuts the
risks, since you're already earning a living from the hotel
while the other gets off the ground.
You would cut down on expenses such as traveling, expensive
premises, and overheads like insurance and electricity. You
could start a taxi service, a health club in a spare room
(convert the garage if you sell the car), an employment agency,
a video club, or a dating agency! If your new hobby/business is
preferable to the hotel, then you could phase it in as you phase
out the hotel aspect. (The hotel business has given my husband
the opportunity of becoming a writer: he writes poetry and
novels, and the hotel guests stimulate his ideas for
characters!)
Owning your own hotel affords you the opportunity to live in a
beautiful part of the country - somewhere where you've always
fancied living, whether it be the Lake District or the Isle of
Harris, provided it's a good catchment area for guests. You
could live in the city center, if that's what you prefer. Isn't
there somewhere you've always had a hankering to live but
couldn't get a job there?
Your children are taken care of since you're always at hand to
see to them. No more 'latch key' kids. Coming home to an empty
house while mum and dad are working can be a desolate thing for
a young child.
It's amazing how many of our guests say, "This looks like fun.
We wouldn't mind a little B&B. Do you think we could do it?"
Anyone can do it!
About the author:
Author's bio: Carolyn started an hotel directory while running
her hotel business. Travel Accommodation
UK She has over 3,000 hotels on this site. There is a wide
selection of hotels from luxury hotels in Knightsbridge to
quaint little guesthouses in the north of Scotland. Full details
of each hotel with neat guest reviews to check out each hotel.
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