Readers give tips on B&Bs

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“¥OLLOWING A recent cclumn where I confessed my secret
desire to operate a Bed and Breakfast, I received a two-page
letter from a reader who is doing it — right here in North

Van. Here are a few excerpts:

“have been operating a B&B
service for several: years and still
Jove what I’m doing.

““Bed and Breakfast is fun! It is
also a lot of work with polishing,
froning and planning menu

every day (and I do swab
out the toilets myself), but it is a
very rewarding business and our
lives ere enriched by the many
people we meet from other coun-
tries as well as from other parts of
Canada.
“*If we ever get to visit all the
. places we have been invited to we
will be travelling for years.”

Soe

the need for 2 break. Not like
some businesses that must keep a
regular schedule of hours, a B&B
can shut down for weeks if the op-
erators want to take a vacation.

I was flattered that she took the
time to write, especially since she
mentioned that a couple of my rec-
ipes are regular favorites on her
breakfast menu! However, this is
suppased to be a travel column,
isn’t it?

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Ancther reader has passed along
two restaurant tips from the San
Francisco area. He’s a regular
business traveller to that city —

travelwise

I phoned the reader and we
chatted about the actual opera-
tional details and several important
points were made. First she
assured me that they never had
unpleasant guests.

She gives them keys and has
never had 2 single object take a
walk. Any accidental breakage has
been covered by apologies and of-
fers to replace.

‘Her formula for success is to -

give her guests plenty of personal
attention which sounds to me easy
to do.

But. the most important thing
that we should realize is that she’s
doing a wonderfui job at -pro-
moting the shops and restaurants
on the ‘North Shore. She tells
guests, “Why fight the traffic
overtown? You can have a lovely
dinner right on the North Shore.’’
Then she gives them directions to
sexeral restaurants in various price

. One. thing she is very careful of
— parking. All ber guests are pzo-
vided with off-street parking ard
she’s never had a complaint from

- neighbours who might object if the
street was cluttered with cars.

Neise is never a problem. Her
guests tend to get up early and go
to bed early — leaving her days
virtually free (after she’s finished
swabbing out those toilets, that is).

Best of all, she has the option to
refuse bookings whenever she fcels

RAVE REVIEWS

Barbara McCreadie

Mike, are you listening?

(@4ike ‘is ancther regular visitor
io that area and -had his life con-
siderably brightened by the Caffe
Sport!)

The first is: Tadich Grill, 240
California St., San Francisco, tel:
391-2373. ;

The reader tells me that the res-
taurant has been in business for
116 years, is operated by the same
Yugloslavian family and specializes
in fish,

Service is conducted at a re-

markabie long bar and it is next to .
_ impossible to get.a job there. The

staff has been around for most of
the 110 years and truly loves the
job.

Do not visit if you’re on a tight
budget — the prices are pricey.

His second reccmmendation:
Try “Gaylord’s’”? in the Stanford
Shopping Centre. It’s East Indian
food and, according to my reader,
“wonderful’’.

He also commended the centre
itself as worth a visit — full of
unusual speciality shops, including
one bookstore (name unavailable)
that sells nothing but travel books.

I really want to give this a try —

most bockshops have just a shelf -

of two of the com-
mon-denominator type ef books.
I'd be like a glutton locked in a
delicatessen.

Since we imaroved the degign of the Tilley Culottes last year, | doubt
that thore's a 3kirt in tha city which has received more rave reviews —

although you'll raver caich me wearing one!
Tilley Culcties with the grace of a full skirt and the

convenience of

stacks, will serve vou well, from Sitiding or cycting through the city, lo

9 side saam pockets, and two secret,
instructions? * “Give ‘em haiil”

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Barbara Tilley
1537 West Broadway

Vancouver, B.C. V6d 1W6
Hours: 10-5:30. Men-Sat.

Ph. 732-4287
or SEA-HATS

as,

‘the Cedars Inn,

S.

eating down south

Headed for Gibsons? I’ve just
received a press release on & new
hotel recently opened. Check out
895 Sunshine
Coast Highway, P.O. Box 739,
Gibsons, VON 10, tel: 886-3008.

Judging by the pictures the
rooms are well designed and it’s
also a spa-type of place with mini
gym, hot tub, sauna and heated
pool. They didn’t send me a rate-
sheet.

The reason I’m bringing this to
your attention is that, most visitors
to Gibsons either stay at private
cabins or they don’t stay at all.
The town isn’t overencumbered
with rooms to rent.

aoe

If you’re still weighing destina-
tions for a winter vacation, have
you considered Texas?

They are simply flooding me
with tourism stuff!

Obviously they love to ge names

See Texas

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