Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Voila! 4 beds…

Le Ruisseau Bed and Breakfast, or,
How a Math Teacher and Chemical Dependency Counselor establish a Bed and Breakfast


First examine CV. Delete professional experience. Guests do not want to discuss fractions or have an alcohol assessment on their holiday. Well, okay, maybe a few would - gah! - but I am staying with Delete.


Accentuate personal interests. Tony took nearly a ream of paper and I more or less filled a Post-It note. It was clear then that Tony would be Executive of Social and Recreational Activities. Tony offers guests How to Find Us directions to What to See or Do tips. He his able to engage with the guests about nearly any topic and he does this with great gusto. Me? I became Executive of All Else -aka Other Duties as Assigned.


Considering our experience in the B&B industry - which was zero - we decided that 3 rooms, 4 beds and 6 guests would be manageable. Fortunately for us, it has been. We have also survived the frenetic pace during the month of August. This is a time when every B&B, hotel, motel, gite, friend et al, is booked solid. Our reservations for August start as early as January!

We tried to give a clever name to each of our Suites. Tried. The Family Suite is individually indicated by the names of our daughters. The Master Suite name just stuck because, frankly, we could not think of anything else!




The Master Suite



The Mindi Anne Suite


The Elsie Marie Suite
Click here for Le Ruisseau Bed & Breakfast website

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fabulous!

christine said...

The Best & Most Fun B&B in Brittany!
Love you all,
Christine