Now more than ever before hotel guests find themselves with even more need of human connection and interaction than ever before. And post isolation, quarantine and lockdown, the urge for many to travel and re-connect with our humanity and by default, other human beings, once again comes to the fore.
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Author: Guy Stehlik
Chief Executive Officer
16 March 2017
We promote our properties as 3-star hotels with 4-star facilities and 5-star service.
While this might sound fallacious, it is actually founded in truth. Travelling abroad will make any South African hotel guest realise that our ‘3-star’ market boxes way above its weight. Most of our BON Hotels are in the 3-star bracket, and in most cases, we can confidently argue that they are more than 3-star quality and would qualify as such with the grading council. For many reasons moving out of the 3-star bracket would be a faux pas, so we are happy to stay right where we are.
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Author: Guy Stehlik
Chief Executive Officer
22 February 2017
My recent blog on the best hotel I’ve ever stayed at got me thinking of the contrary. What is the WORST hotel I have ever stayed at? Travelling and being in the hotel industry conjures up all sorts of both good and bad hotel memories, but I have to say, after careful thought and application of my measuring tool – how did the hotel make me feel? – I must admit to generalisation and claim that my worst hotel in the world is, in fact, a particular hotel category.
5-star hotels. There, I said it.
Author: Guy Stehlik
Chief Executive Officer
30 January 2017
At a recent hotel industry function, I was asked which was THE best hotel I have ever stayed at. This has been a common question over the years and one that has an easy answer. It’s also a question to which I enjoy watching the reactions to my reply. I suppose I am expected to mention the likes of ‘The Ritz Carlton in Shanghai’ or ‘The Lanesbourough in London’; however, my decision is not based on six-star facilities or Michelin-rated restaurants, nor is my verdict based on white-gloved waiters or state-of-the-art cocktails. My choice is based on one thing – how the place made me feel.
Author: Guy Stehlik
Chief Executive Officer
2 January 2017
There’s been something fundamental missing in this last decade of hotel management: the unflashy, workaholic general managers, those who started their careers waiting tables, scrubbing kitchen counters and floors, climbing the ladder, slowly learning ALL of the necessary skills to eventually become THE General Manager.
Author: Guy Stehlik
Chief Executive Officer
9 November 2016
There’s a terrible misconception by hotel management companies that hotel owners are interfering, ill-informed nuisances who should leave hotel management companies to do what they do – manage their hotels. Being a hotel owner and a hotel operator, I find myself in a quandary with this one; I wear both hats.
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