Start A Bed and Breakfast: How to Start Up and Run a Bed and Breakfast Business

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Permission for B &B With Fewer Than 3 Rooms?

There is no evidence that there is any limit on the number of bedrooms a B&B has to have before you have to apply for planning permission of building regulat...

Choosing Furniture For Your Business

Many bed and breakfast businesses make the mistake of using furniture well past its sell by date as an economy measure. While we wouldn't advocate throwing f...

Communal Rooms in Your B&B

Most bed and breakfast establishments will have at least two guest rooms apart from the bedrooms, a dining room and a lounge, and although most B&B guests wi...

Create a Working or Commercial Kitchen

Bed and breakfast kitchens vary tremendously in size and standard but if you get the chance to plan and design one, take into account food hygiene standards...

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Should You Accept Pets at Your B&B?

Long gone are the days when B&B’s were run by gruff women with draconian rules – if you want to be successful, the customer has to come first. Now, at th...

More Internet Marketing Initiatives

In our internet marketing article we talk about capturing the email addresses of customers and prospects and sending out regular email newsletters about your...

Branching Out Into the Spa Market

Many B&B establishments and small hotels have made a name for themselves by moving up a quality bracket into the spa market. But what's involved with turning...

Can Local Business Networking Help Your B&B?

Why on earth would local business networking help a B&B? Well, one answer is that you won’t know until you go to find out, but don't expect results to come...

Hiring a Gardener for Your B&B

Many bed and breakfast establishments have large gardens, often because they were originally private houses and a large house would usually have a garden to...

Making the Best of a Seaside Location: A Case Study

A seaside location is the traditional home of the B&B but although it means more visitors, and therefore more potential customers, there's much more competit...

What Did Volcanic Ash Ever Do for Us? Case Study

During the spring of 2010 the travel world in Europe was turned upside down by ash from a volcanic eruption under the Eyjafjallajoekull Glacier in Iceland. T...

Should I Extend My B&B to Add More Bedrooms?

Whether or not to extend a B&B to put more bedrooms in is a tricky question at the best of times. It's even harder in a time of economic uncertainty, particu...

Food Hygiene Requirements for a B&B

Although B&Bs don't often provide evening meals and aren't likely to have a professional kitchen, there are still Food Safety Regulations to adhere to. Legal...

Does the Owner Have to Live in Their B&B?

The traditional B&B tends to have a live-in landlord or landlady, sometimes a couple, who have opened up their house to paying guests. Typically it is a priv...

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