Long-stay lodgers needed for many hotels to be viable
Thursday 29th December 2011, 2:29PM GMT.
Denise Bishop, proprietor of the Manor Lodging House, believes hoteliers should decide to offer either tourist accommodation or lodging, not try to do both. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1179202)
LODGERS are vital to enable income all year round, hoteliers and lodging house proprietors have said.
But one lodging house thinks premises should be either one or the other to prevent problems such as those suffered by the Atlantique Hotel and The Deerhound Inn, which have both been instructed to stop unauthorised operations as lodging accommodation.
Les Embruns became lodging facilities approximately 12 years ago.
Manager Tom O’Connor said it enabled the establishment to avoid ups and downs in its level of income.
‘It is more constant for us,’ he said. ‘The tourist industry is very seasonal – places often only have June to August when they are full.’
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It Seems the Environment Department were not happy with just ending the tourist trade. Now they want to get all the hotels shut down. Well most of them at least.
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Them’s the rules I’m afraid
Probably written in the mid fifties when the island was awash with grockles,but if the rules have not been erased from the big book of rules then the rules must be obeyed
Remember that Environment does not do common sense
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Does no one think that it is appalling that so many of our people can not have decent living space at a rate they can afford, the stinkiest Guernsey fiasco of all runs on and on.
Make the North Beach a caravan park and it would be full by the end of the week so dire is the situation here but the States would be shamed by our “Trailer Trash” visible in town!
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Zab – exactly
The hotels are potentially open market homes for one family each.
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