As you know, we are neither an hotel or a guest house or a B&B however, many of our customers are and this latest ‘gold star’ addition to the VisitScotland rating system has put the accommodation cat amongst the paperwork pigeons.  Â
The main question being how, do visitors know what they are booking into with so many schemes on the go? Some schemes are voluntary, some are most definitely not and what is the difference between a 4 star property and a 3 gold star property – is the 3 gold star one now better?  It took quite a bit of digging but I did eventually find the star grading information but I am still not quite sure how clear I am.
We are interested to hear your views as we have only heard negative comments so far and we are sure there are positive ones as well – aren’t there? Not quite sure why everyone we speaks to seems to dislike VisitScotland, what we are sure of is that the majority of our accommodation customers are members and pay a lot of money to stay members, so VisitScotland must be doing something right.
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We are pleased to say that a successful re-design of a long time customer’s website is now online. Chris Helik, owner of 
You may or may not be aware but we took a holiday last week, I know I know a rare occasion or as some people think being self employed means we can be on holiday all the time… hmmm would be good but not at all possible! Anyway, we stayed in the Holiday Inn Theatreland in Glasgow and tasted some good and not quite so good food on our travels as we are well known for our appetites. With Gavin having 20+years in the hospitality/accommodation sector you can imagine that staying anywhere means a critique at some point during the stay – I tend to find it incredibly annoying except now I seem to have joined in.  So, I was thinking… are there any other budding reviewers out there? What do you look for when you go away? Reason I am interested? Because we do so many websites and Internet marketing contracts for accommodation providers. Oh and if anyone is going to Glasgow and you like a good curry we have to highly recommend the 