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Thank you for your warm hospitality. I felt most welcome here. N.T., - Germany |
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Our award winning guesthouse is on the site of the side gate to Round Wood, Lord Nelson's 'dream cottage' which he bought in 1797. 2009 We received another visit from a Quality In Tourism 'mystery guest' this July and were delighted to maintain our Gold Accolade for another year. This year we are continuing with the re-furbishment of the guesthouse focussing on the common guest areas. Work has started and we extend our apologies to all future guests for the necessary eyesore! 2008 The re-furbishment of the rest of the bedrooms was completed in the Spring and when our ‘mystery guest’ from Quality In Tourism visited us in July she awarded us a Gold Accolade. We were delighted to have achieved such recognition for the quality of our breakfast, the standard and cleanliness of our accommodation our customer service. It certainly felt as though all of the time and effort that goes into achieving the Gold Accolade, had been well worth it! 2007 By the end of our first full year at the guesthouse we’d learnt and done a lot. The dining room and some of the bedrooms had been re-furbished – continuing to welcome guests while keeping chaos to a minimum became an art form! 2006 We bought Sidegate Guesthouse in January from Diane and Peter Marriott. They had built up an excellent reputation and we were lucky to be taking over such a well established and popular business. We had a frantic initial few months, falling over unpacked packing cases, finding out how sensitive the fire alarm was to anything beyond a minute and a half of bread in the toaster and getting Eki, our chocolate brown Labrador, used to his new home and so many people staying in it!
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