This authoritative handbook shares expert advice on every aspect of running a thriving home-based bed and breakfast--from getting the business off the ground to complying with current laws. Get practical, first-hand info about operating your business, meeting guests' needs, and publicizing your new venture. You may soon be earning income as you welcome a steady stream of new friends into your home.

This totally revised book will separate the romantic notions of owning a B&B from the business end by covering basic cost control systems, successful kitchen management, housekeeping, beverage management, room rate formulas, arrival, billing, departure, managing and training employees and more.

Welcome to the Grand Hotel of Feelings, where all kinds of feelings come and stay. Every guest has unique needs. Anger, for example, is very loud and needs plenty of space to scream and shout. Sadness speaks in a small voice and occasionally floods the bathroom. Gratitude likes wandering about in nature; you never know when she might come and sit by your side. Some feelings are big and some are small, some are fun and some are tricky, but no feeling...

In an attempt to unite his unusual family, Win Berry decides to buy an old girls' school and turn it into a family-run hotel.

Find out what really goes on in the world of hospitality with this hilarious book full of funny and absurd stories, anecdotes told in dialogue, factoids, and hoax pop quizzes by two veteran concierges who paid their way while working at a combined 50 hotels in and around Times Square.

"When Rand Colby's fianc©♭e is killed by four escaping bank-robbers, Rand takes up the mission of finding the men who killed her. During his search, Rand befriends Charles Holiday, owner of a hotel/saloon/brothel in Laramie. Charles is shot, and his dying wish is for Rand to go to St. Louis to find his niece, to whom he is leaving his business. Carrie Holiday, Charles' niece, lives at the New Life Orphanage where she worked as a governess. It is...