So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel!: A Guide [Paperback]

So You Want to Buy a Small Hotel! is written with humor and tells it like it is, warts and all, the good things and the nightmares about running a hotelthe dream (with the nightmares!) lived for 11 years at the Rosebank Hotel in the Scottish Borders. Its a how-to book with a difference, anecdotal, full of practical, step-by-step advice, with warnings about pitfallsa buyers hotel guide for dummies! Reading this book will give you practical insights into what it is really like to own a small hotel and enable you to decide whether running a small hotel is for you.

This book is written from personal experience. Read and see whether you would also like 'the experience'!

Carolyn Joanne Muller was educated at Frenchgate Independent School for Girls in Richmond, Yorkshire. She has written for Cosmopolitan and Fair Lady, and is author of two romantic novelsRapture at Sea, based on the return of Christ, and Spirit of Ecstasy, based on computer dating (both published by Writers Club Press). She has traveled extensively and for eleven years ran her own hotel in Scotland. In 2001 she and her husband moved to the Scottish Highlands where she runs the successful Internet accommodation guide Travel Accommodation U.K. (www.travelaccommodation.co.uk).

When I told people I was going to buy my own hotel I was surprised by the different reactions - from 'Gosh, you're going to make a lot of money' to 'You must be mad! That's terribly hard work.'

All I knew at the time was that I was desparate to get out of the rat race. I was sick and tired of working for a boss for a weekly wage that was a mere pittance.