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I'll be watching that.
ALL the hotels in Eastbourne are s
t. Apart from the Grand I suppose. There is the market for a large west seafront modern boutique hotel with a matching decent restaurant for non-residents too (year round see 
). There are 100,000 local residents and not all are old and/or poor. The plaster lions would have to go though 
Good money there for someone brave enough to move away from the old biddies' coachtrips paying £30 a night staple. There is no middle ground between geriatric dross and the 5 star Grand, and absolutely nothing modern nor with a good restaurant or anything to make the local wander in.
ALL the hotels in Eastbourne are s
t. Apart from the Grand I suppose. There is the market for a large west seafront modern boutique hotel with a matching decent restaurant for non-residents too (year round see ). There are 100,000 local residents and not all are old and/or poor. The plaster lions would have to go though Good money there for someone brave enough to move away from the old biddies' coachtrips paying £30 a night staple. There is no middle ground between geriatric dross and the 5 star Grand, and absolutely nothing modern nor with a good restaurant or anything to make the local wander in.
richardxjr said:
I'll be watching that.
ALL the hotels in Eastbourne are st. Apart from the Grand I suppose. There is the market for a large west seafront modern boutique hotel with a matching decent restaurant for non-residents too (year round see ). * There are 100,000 local residents and not all are old and/or poor. The plaster lions would have to go though
** Good money there for someone brave enough to move away from the old biddies' coachtrips paying £30 a night staple. There is no middle ground between geriatric dross and the 5 star Grand, and absolutely nothing modern nor with a good restaurant or anything to make the local wander in.
* Let's be fair, most of the population are geriatric in the extreme. Maybe Bexhill is older on average but it'll be a close-run thing.ALL the hotels in Eastbourne are s
t. Apart from the Grand I suppose. There is the market for a large west seafront modern boutique hotel with a matching decent restaurant for non-residents too (year round see ). * There are 100,000 local residents and not all are old and/or poor. The plaster lions would have to go though ** Good money there for someone brave enough to move away from the old biddies' coachtrips paying £30 a night staple. There is no middle ground between geriatric dross and the 5 star Grand, and absolutely nothing modern nor with a good restaurant or anything to make the local wander in.
** Is there though? If you can persuade young couples to come away for a weekend or stag and hen parties to come to Eastbourne for a Friday and Saturday then maybe so but it'd be a brave man who looked the gift horse of an apparently endless convoy of Wallace Arnold coaches in the mouth. I suppose a model could be Bournemouth which is a lot livelier nowadays than in was twenty or thirty years ago but that's been done largely on the back of the university and getting a large student population into the area.
wiki said:
The 2001 census showed that it had a larger than average over–60 population (just over 25% of the population being of retirement age as opposed to the UK average of 18.4%)
That's not an overwhelming majority of oldies and it's a good deal livelier than Bexhill! With no seafront And we get the Vulcan at our airshow next week
There's definitely a market.
Edited by richardxjr on Thursday 2nd August 15:16
Westy Pre-Lit said:
Gulzar said:
For example the lady Alex who interviewed my father raised her voice to my father and said Mr Gulzar if you carry on treating customers this way it'll be just you staying in this building! My fathers reply was: "Your family owned a chain of Forte Hotels did they not? How many did you have?" "We had 40 hotels" she replied, "And today how many do you have?" , "2" was the answer. My father then said "so you went from 40 down to 2 and I went from nothing to 5 and in the last 10 years there hasnt been a year that our turnover hasnt increased at least 10% than the last, I think I know what im doing!" she then went red faced and changed the subject
Nice come back 
Trip Advisor is fine as long as you don't focus on any particular review. Instead look at the overall picture/pattern of all the reviews, bearing in mind that people are more likely to review if they have a bad experience rather than a good one.
For example, there are 31 terrible reviews of the Savoy in London (about 5% of the total). I don't believe that 31 people had a terrible time at the Savoy. Not to expectation perhaps, and not worth the money perhaps, but not 'terrible'.
rohrl said:
Allowing yourself to be filmed for one of these programmes seems to be a risky decision to take IMO.
channel 4 rang me up last year asking if we wanted our business featured on a tv programme . yeah right , i get to look like a bigger dhead than i already am . there is nothing to be gained from being featured on this type of tv show . unless we get to see Gulzars cars 
Gulzar said:
For example the lady Alex who interviewed my father raised her voice to my father and said Mr Gulzar if you carry on treating customers this way it'll be just you staying in this building! My fathers reply was: "Your family owned a chain of Forte Hotels did they not? How many did you have?" "We had 40 hotels" she replied, "And today how many do you have?" , "2" was the answer. My father then said "so you went from 40 down to 2 and I went from nothing to 5 and in the last 10 years there hasnt been a year that our turnover hasnt increased at least 10% than the last, I think I know what im doing!" she then went red faced and changed the subject
"Your family owned a chain of Forte Hotels did they not? How many did you have?"She said the family had 40, Forte Hotels did once own 40.
"And today how many do you have?"
The answer is 2, the Polizzi's do have 2 hotels themselves today The Tresanton and the Endsleigh Hotels in Devon.
It was her uncle Rocco Forte who had the Group of hotels (40) but none of them had to close through shoddy management because they were sold in the 1990s to the Granada Group. Sir Rocco Forte has since bought back the name and Rocco Forte Hotels currently has 13 hotels around Europe.
She clearly answered the question as directly related to her and not her Uncle.
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