Is Owning and Running a Bed and Breakfust fun?

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because I wonder.

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 04:25 (twenty-three years ago)

not if you run this B&B I stayed at in Aptos, CA last year. Man, the guy was barely there, we had to rummage through his filthy kitchen for a corkscrew, couldn't find one, bought our own; later caught him griping about how his ex-wife wanted to sell the place but he wanted to turn it into a clothing-optional tennis camp for discriminating adults. Okay the nudist bit wasn't true but the rest was.

― kyle, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 05:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I have relatives who run or have run a B&B. They found it profitable, although it was annoying when some shifty politician had all the local asylum seekers moved to another part of the country.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

It was a bed and breakfust for refugees?

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

A lot of B&B's supplement their income by taking in refugees, homeless folk and even...students!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Supplement? Mike, they put a lot of people in B&B accomodation over here while their asylum claims are being processed. Costs government up to £500/week for each asylum seeker but that's not to say they get anything like value for that money; a flat in sheltered/council housing is usually £70/week and doesn't feature an unscrupulous proprietor making weird partitions to cram in more paying customers used to sleeping on the floor.

So it's not the 'gingham tablecloths and breakfast muffins' option we think of, as run by dropout US yuppies.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I stayed in a bed and breakfast with my family in New Orleans a couple years back and LOVED it. It was a big victorian home on a tree-lined street with a cable car running up the middle. It was run by a gay couple who were very friendly and welcoming and smiley. They made us a GREAT breakfast. Everything was fresh and comforting. Our rooms were splendid too. Anyway, they seemed to have great fun doing it (and by doing it I mean running the B&B of course).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Suzy, my aunt & uncle own a B&B, it's a legit business and sometimes they do just supplement their income in the winter months.

Having said that, I've been homeless and stayed in one of these supposed B&B's, it's such a scam.

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Run a B&B in Nova Scotia, there are tons of them. Better yet, one in Sackville, New Brunswick which has four or five, and we even shoved Queen E2 into one of them.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I can imagine Hanley running a BB like Joey's sister from Dawson's Creek.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Smee, I live near enough to King's Cross to appreciate the utter shiteness of some B&Bs, no slur on your uncle intended.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

The owning part is loads o'fun. The running part is less fun. Think of soppy bits of uneaten toast and customers claiming imaginary discounts.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Aren't the British B/Bs rather closer to youth hostels than the small upscale inns that the term conotes in the US? Or has that changed?

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

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