Jim & Ramona Brown have been your hosts since August 1, 2005 at high noon. We have
been cleaning and updating the hotel ever since. We never have owned a hotel before
but we have stayed in many of them - some chains & some independents so we know what
to expect and what we prefer.
Number 1 is a clean room with a comfortable bed. Size was not important because we
never intended to live there - just sleep. We have stayed as long as a month though
in one place, but just to sleep. There has to be something to do besides stay in
your room or you could stay at home and save the money for later.
Number 2 was coffee availability in the morning, preferably in a paper cup - so you
know it is clean and ice in the evening for a nightcap when on the road. This hotel
needed a lot of tender loving care when we took over and it has been getting it ever
since.
Bought new key tags, re-keyed all the room locks and bought enough keys to provide
guests with an exterior door key. Who wants to be locked out as we were when we first
stayed here. Re-roofed, replaced deck carpet, stair carpet and carpet in three rooms.
Replaced chipped sinks(3/23/2011) and drains (3/23/2011)so they all have pop ups,
leaking faucet fixtures, bad fan lights, bad blinds, toilet seats and nightstand
lamps. Contracted with Terminex to keep away wasps, spiders, ants etc. Washed all
the rooms—walls, ceiling and carpet. Replace all the beds - frames, mattresses and
box springs. Replaced all the sheets, blankets and towels. Established written housekeeping
procedures. Established computerized maintenance schedule. Bought and installed wagon
bows and cover for wagon in front. Bought new furniture for lobby,bought new chairs
for the rooms, wireless DSL (WI-FI), color copy/fax machine, new coffee pots and
microwave. Re-graveled rear driveway and parking lot. Re-carpeted 5 more rooms 9/2/2008.
Purchased urns for smokers and trash. Replaced noisy refrigerator. Replaced temperamental
and unreliable heaters. Put new couches, chairs, table, pots & pans and kitchen floor
in suite. Painted suite bedrooms and managers kitchen. Put in compact fluorescent
bug lights outside and in the halls and compact florescent lights in rooms as well
as started a recycle program to continue going green. Put Solar lights along walkway.
Bought more outdoor chairs and tables. Replace cable TV with DirecTV for reliability
and more channels (166) 12/2007. Exterior Painted 10/3-12/2008. The rest of the rooms
and suite got carpeting 11/17/09. Put HD TV in suite. Bought 2 Ionator EXPs to clean
and disinfect the rooms without chemicals. Bought 2 portable UV lights to disinfect
things like the TV control that don’t light to be sprayed with wet stuff and yet
still need to be cleaned and sterilized.
NEXT UP
New Sign: Give us some suggestions. Enlarge & paint old sign, Get big electronic
sign. Put a sign on the Wagon Cover, ?
Shopping for HD TVs in the future.
Keep Painting the inside.
And whatever pops up that would be nice for the guests experience.
