This article from the New York Times sums up the practices of hotel tipping, primarily in the USA, but there additional practices internationally that can summed up here. Pushing a heavy cart of cleaning and room supplies, lifting mattresses and…
We softly launched our monthly rental program a few weeks ago and its become an instant hit. (Hint: it’s cheap compared to daily or weekly prices.) For the Deluxe Room (sleeps 2) its 10,000,000 rupiah (approx $730 USD). For the…
While November was as slow as molasses, December was quite hectic, at least for the final week. We had people from Canada, Sweden (two families — who didn’t know one another), Australia, America and Germany. We spread the word that…
I received the above email about a week before some guests were to arrive. And so we recommended flowers. The mom sent us $ via paypal and we placed these flowers in the guest’s room: Needless to say, the guests…
We opened our doors on June 1st, so after six months we couldn’t resist the urge to make some improvements. We expanded our massage room into a full-blown spa, albeit a small or, to be more polite, a “cute” one.…