Before / After Hotel Pommier Chariton (location #2)

Proud to announce I don't have a head of HR. and I've never been to a Coldplay concert.

Everyone: sell to the rich Me: $98/night Have already beat our best July ever by 11%. Turns out that nice hotels that don't require klarna financing to stay are pretty appealing 🤯

Fact -> No one gives a shit about Wyndham. But here's my quick take on their groundbreaking partnership with grub hub

Now do hotels that willingly overbook rooms ☠️ Should be illegal.

Spark is the Mcdonalds of hotel franchises. Aspirational for poor people. Brand name cope for middle class. Late night crack fix for elite pointtards This is late stage empire stuff from Hilton. The bigger Spark grows (200+ in pipeline), the more surface area of owners

Our hotel was on life support during covid. Endured many humbling lessons. And a bad habit of being too broke/afraid for marketing. I thought good photos + reviews were enough, but that's just playing defense. Now we are balls to the walls on offense. Outside sales rep,

(much overdue) Steal the tech stack run our two indie hotels on: Reservations PMS / CM / BE - Cloudbeds Pre-checkin / texting - Cloudbeds Access Codes - Devicethread RMS - Smartpricing Gateway / Processing - authorize net / Chase Marketing Website - wordpress / elementor Group

The brand on our sign used to call the shots. It would tell us what guests we could host which ones were ‘out of our lane’ But now we set our own rules Rules that are best for our guests and community. No quarterly fines for not signing up rewards members No hours with

"Best part of travel is experiencing the local culture, trying the authentic cuisines" *take selfies eating foreign Mcdonalds, Starbucks, and stays at big box franchise hotel*

Someone out there has to be building this.

We stopped taking cash at our hotels. Card only. Chargebacks suck, but handling cash (and the guests that demand paying with it) is worst. Wish it wasn’t that way. But hotels are already hard, so have to streamline to stay sane.