As owners, David & Angela Wood at Garden Park Guest House in Grantown on Spey will tell you, the answer to the question ‘Visit Scotland – are they worth it?’ is a resounding no!
Friends and new customers David & Angela took the stand to pull out of Visit Scotland, the RAC and any other accommodation association and they havent looked back. Less stress, less money but definitely not less visitors.
We all know why it is good to be in these associations i.e. recognised standards for the general public with the grading system. However, what many of the public are not aware of are the constant discrepancies in the star system and the additional finances required to get to a standard only to be told you miss it by 1 point. That’s why, after tears and angry discussions with Visit Scotland amoungst others, David & Angela made the brave move to leave VisitScotland. So, have they regreted it? Most certainly not – and with the money they have saved they have gone and got themselves a brand new website.
Why not have a look for yourselves – my particular favourite pages on the new website are the facilities page which shows the quirky life size bears – something every guest comments on apparently – and the contact page which shows Arnie & Archie, the resident ‘boys’ who will welcome any weary traveller into the warm and cosy, friendly bed and breakfast. So if you are up in this area and need somewhere to stay that gives you something just a little bit special then the Garden Park Guest House is the place for you.
Popularity: 7% [?]
We have just emailed a huge list of businesses within the Cairngorm National Park asking them to follow us on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook. Have we missed you out? Let us know… sorry if you are outside the Park but we had to start somewhere.
So our competition is as follows, actually you dont have to do anything onerous, just follow us or become a fan in March or April and you go into a draw. The winner – totally and utterly picked at random – will get one of our SEO First packages to the value of £360.
To all our fans and followers that are already signed up, dont worry we will enter you too, as long as your business is within the Park boundaries all you have to do is message or DM us and into the pot you go. Winner will be notified by email and also blogged about here in the first week of May….. good luck!
Popularity: 6% [?]
Trip Advisor, the well established travel/accommodation review site is no stranger to controversy with many blog posts and comments from the hotel & leisure industry questioning its policy on ‘the right to reply’ and ‘bonifide posts’.
TA bills itself as providing “Unbiased holiday reviews, photos and travel advice for hotels and vacations”
It came to light in 2009 that Trip Advisor was to begin charging for business listings – this has now come to pass.
As we have over 20 years experience in the hotel & leisure industry we are interested in feedback and comment from any Hotel, Guest House, B&B, Self Catering, Restaurant etc as to what this means to you ….
Popularity: 11% [?]
We are pleased to say that a successful re-design of a long time customer’s website is now online. Chris Helik, owner of GBC Scotland wanted a clean, simple to use, brochure website. With a couple of well chosen images this just shows that simple doesn’t have to mean cheap and nasty looking.  Chris had been deliberating over having a new website as his old one had been online a long time and he was worried about the overlap between old and new. We made a smooth transition between the 2 with no loss of service, email or any other complications and he is now delighted with his new site as are we. Lets hope more business rolls in for Chris and his team of landscape contract gardeners in Aviemore.
Popularity: 44% [?]
We have received another good review from a customer…. you can read it and other reviews on the Which Web Design Company website.  It is always nice to read good things about a service you have provided and knowing that your customers would happily recommend you to someone else – long may this continue to be the case.
Popularity: 48% [?]
As owners, David & Angela Wood at Garden Park Guest House in Grantown on Spey will tell you, the answer to the question ‘Visit Scotland – are they worth it?’ is a resounding no!