Friday 8 March 2013

Success!



Yes we made it!  We had our Quality in Tourism inspection this week for our holiday cottage and we got the highest grading there is – 5 Star, Gold Award.  We are really pleased.  It is a justification of all of our hard work and belief that Eastfield is a really special property.  Yes, we have gone to a lot of trouble to decorate, furnish and equip it to a high standard, but what makes the difference is the location and the total ambience of the property.  In a word it is quite “Unique”!  You can spend as much money as you like on a property but if the location is wrong, it’s never going to be that special.  For those who don’t understand the system, the Quality in Tourism people carry out the assessments on all sorts of Guest Accommodation in this country, from large hotels to small B & B’s on behalf of Visit England.  It has to be said that they are incredible pernickety and you can guarantee that they will always find something you’ve missed or that they just don’t like.
We will be having our own website for the cottage in due course – quite frankly that has been the least of our worries recently! – but in the meantime there are lots of photos to be seen on the booking agent’s site www.sykescottages.co.uk.  The property name is Eastfield, ref. 22844.  If you are interested in making a booking, we would love you to contact us directly as we can take private bookings.

You know the old adage,” If you want a job doing then ask a busy person”.  Well you must all be aware by now that we don’t exactly sit around here at Fallowfield twiddling our thumbs.  In fact our three grown-up sons are constantly berating us for not having quite got to grips with retirement.  So what’s retirement??  People do say we both look a lot younger than we are but perhaps they should all have been to Specsavers!  So what were we up to last night?  Mike was out to dinner – but it was a business meeting, so I’ll let him off that one and I was giving a talk/presentation about alpacas to the Riding Mill WI, which is chaired by my old friend Jenny Coates.  Mind you, I could have gone off Jenny pretty rapidly as she introduced me by the delightful name my sister used to give me “Smelly Melly”.  Not too good that one!  I will forgive my sister since she and her husband Andrew are brilliant about coming up from Derbyshire to house and animal sit whilst we are away.  So no prizes for guessing who is coming to stay next week when we are off to the British Alpaca Futurity!
Fingers crossed that Amynta behaves this well next week!


 

1 comment:

  1. Life begins at retirement.
    Congratulations on your well deserved award for Eastfield.
    Anja

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