Needless to say as Queen Elizabeth II and Price Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh drove past us one fine May day on their way up to the Whitewell Estate (all Duke of Lancaster land), they gave us a little cheery wave as we proceeded to purge the rooms of their horse-hair plaster walls and demolish the current boundaries in preparation for newly built ones......
You know the way Her Maj must think the whole of her world smells of fresh paint........ as she passed the Inn she must have had a little chuckle to herself as a neat row of hairy-arsed builders with face masks (to prevent the nasty unwitting inhalation of horse-hair plaster dust) gathering under clouds of said dust billowing out through the open windows of the Inn, and giving her a little cheery wave!
6 months later they were ready for the first paying, staying guests and within 3 months we had a 4 star rating as an Inn....which we quickly added the accolade of "Silver Award" for outstanding hospitality.....
The "Inn" part was complete......
A comfortable mix of old and new
A 250 year old listed building with gloriously modern rooms in which to snuggle down into!
Alastair Sawday's eponymous luxury travel guides picked up on us quite quickly; his ethos is for owner-run establishments going the extra mile....and that just about sums us up!
The rooms at our Inn have been in operation now for over 4 years and there isn't a line we haven't heard, a crazy guest we haven't met, an excuse we haven't raised eyebrows at...... it's amazing the level of tolerance you build up as you receive paying guests into your home..... oh yes.... I forgot to mention we live here too!
Speak soon,
M
