I've just been reviewing hotel bookings for the next 20 nights, and we're booked to 58% of capacity. 4 nights, including tonight and this Friday are completely full; 2 nights, both further ahead, are yet to take their first booking.

Am I happy with these figures? Yes - very much so. We've got hotel rooms available for delegates who make late bookings on Learning to program in Tcl and Tcl Programming, both of which run next week, and for the Ruby courses from 5th September and Python courses from 12th September. And we've got rooms available for our regular business hotel guests too.

The black and white illustration with this article is for the local newspaper - a gentle reminder that we're an excellent base for business visitors to the town. More marketing than sales - in other words keeping us visible and known about for the medium term, rather than pushing to increase that 58% for 20 days figure up much higher. For just as there is little point in having lots of empty rooms, there is equally little point in generating so many enquiries that we're turning people away all the time. And with just five rooms, "full" and "empty" can feel very close to each other at times!


Well House Manor web site - [here].
Our hotel room booking engine - [here].
(written 2011-08-25)

 M107 - Well House Manor Newsreel
  [2076] A New Advert for Well House Manor - (2009-03-11)
  [2424] A Winter Weekend Special at Well House Manor - (2009-09-26)
  [2984] Customer Review - Hotel Room, Melksham - (2010-10-03)
  [3014] Well House Manor - the next six years - (2010-10-24)
  [3505] Well House Manor - Winter Warmers - Open 7 days a week, 11 to 5 ++ - (2011-11-01)
  [3535] Melksham, Luxury Hotel Rooms, Christmas. - (2011-12-02)
  [3586] Emergency First Aid Provision at Well House Manor - part of the service - (2012-01-19)
  [3645] Keeping our hotel looking like new, by using our gained experience - (2012-03-09)
  [3821] Well House Manor at Dawn ... and later in the day - (2012-07-28)
  [3827] Melksham Community Apple Pressing Day - (2012-08-05)
  [3828] Pimms and Croquet in Edwardian Melksham - 8th September 2012 - Food Festival Event - (2012-08-05)
  [3834] Geekmas 2012 - celebrating open source languages such as Perl, PHP and Python - (2012-08-11)
  [3858] The apple crop of 2012 - (2012-09-15)
  [3883] Apple Pressing Day 2012 - (2012-10-07)
  [3963] National TV - Melksham - 9th January 2013, Pre-alert. - (2012-12-27)
  [3965] Well House Manor, Melksham - on national TV next week - (2012-12-30)
  [3967] Hotel bedroom - even larger TV! - (2013-01-04)
  [4101] POETS day at Well House Manor - (2013-05-24)
  [4116] International Melksham - industry, and beautiful countryside - (2013-06-15)
  [4183] Reaching a hotel standard where 99% of guests would return - and maintaining that standard - (2013-10-01)
  [4262] Updated staff systems helps us look after our customers better - (2014-04-11)
  [4358] A brilliant finish to 2014 training and business guests, and a look to 2015 - (2014-12-20)
  [4543] Saturday morning at Well House Manor - (2015-10-17)

M101 - Well House Manor - Business Accommodation in Melksham
  [717] A customer service company - (2006-05-11)
  [721] Residential - (2006-05-15)
  [731] Hotel Technology Requirements - (2006-05-24)
  [844] Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-08-24)
  [857] Strikingly busy - (2006-09-06)
  [873] Hotel Exchange Rates - (2006-09-21)
  [889] Opening approaches! - (2006-10-08)
  [902] Brand new hotel and training centre, Melksham - (2006-10-22)
  [926] Training rooms to learn Open Source programming - (2006-11-15)
  [963] George Hotel and Well House Manor, Melksham - (2006-12-04)
  [1011] Well House Manor and Beechfield House, Hotels, Melksham - (2006-12-29)
  [1059] Three sets of twins - (2007-01-31)
  [1079] Wilts and Berks - two conference / training rooms in Melksham - (2007-02-14)
  [1089] Playing old games - (2007-02-22)
  [1164] Grand Central Station - (2007-04-27)
  [1318] Well House Manor - feature comparison against the old place! - (2007-08-24)
  [1520] Terms and Conditions - Hotel, England - plain English - (2008-01-26)
  [1676] A warm welcome for visitors from the USA - (2008-06-14)
  [1701] Training Course and Business Conference Technology - (2008-07-07)
  [1748] Hotel room prices - Melksham, Wiltshire - (2008-08-11)
  [1808] We love children ... but our hotel is not going to be their scene - (2008-09-24)
  [1824] Which is your best hotel room? - (2008-10-07)
  [1907] Melksham Hotel Rates - (2008-11-25)
  [1929] 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices - (2008-12-07)
  [2024] Carry on Training - in spite of the weather - (2009-02-03)
  [2558] Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010 - (2010-01-01)
  [2581] Snow scenes - and how snow effected our business - (2010-01-16)
  [2821] Chancellor George Osborne inspires Perl Program - (2010-06-22)
  [2925] Well House - the pictures - (2010-08-16)
  [3107] Hotel and Training Course prices - the effect of the VAT rise on 4th January 2011 - (2010-12-26)
  [3969] Four in a Bed comes to Melksham tonight - (2013-01-09)
  [4005] New guest ... becoming returning guest - (2013-02-15)
  [4137] Early morning - welcoming business and leisure guests to Melksham - (2013-07-10)
  [4570] A warm welcome awaits you at Well House Manor, Melksham - (2015-11-02)
  [4603] Happy New Year. Our customers are our ambassadors - (2016-01-01)
  [4614] PC Plod - alive and scaremongering in Wiltshire? - (2016-01-04)

G600 - Well House Consultants - Well House Manor
  [525] Vision AND venture - (2005-12-12)
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [555] Hotel novelties - (2006-01-05)
  [558] Converting between acres and hectares - (2006-01-08)
  [571] Well House Manor - (2006-01-21)
  [575] Eating for the single business traveller - (2006-01-24)
  [582] DWIM and AWWO - (2006-01-30)
  [594] Twice is a co-incidence and three times is a pattern - (2006-02-07)
  [598] Should we cruise around the world? - (2006-02-09)
  [615] Looking for leading not bleeding edge - (2006-02-21)
  [617] Easy, Free, Reliable internet access - (2006-02-22)
  [643] If it's Sunday, it must be Bedwyn - (2006-03-12)
  [667] Well House Manor goes ahead - (2006-04-03)
  [884] Drive time - (2006-10-02)
  [891] Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-10-10)
  [933] Course Joining package - updated - (2006-11-20)
  [1072] Well House Manor in the Snow - (2007-02-09)
  [1211] A lot has happened in a year - (2007-05-31)
  [1332] Melksham Hotel - Five Star Kitchen! - (2007-09-04)
  [1388] Well House Manor - a year on - (2007-10-12)
  [1706] The Story of Well House Manor - (2008-07-12)
  [2565] Bright day, snowy day - (2010-01-06)
  [2962] Well House Manor - the history of the hotel - (2010-09-20)
  [3549] Well House Manor - perhaps the best hotel rooms in Melksham - (2011-12-10)
  [3702] Digital Champions think that Well House Manor is a champion venue! - (2012-04-20)
  [3800] Fancy a weekend away? Try Well House Manor in Melksham, Wiltshire - (2012-07-09)
  [3814] Returning guests - a sign of a good product. Cream teas and hotel rooms. - (2012-07-22)
  [3970] Comparing four VERY different places to stay - (2013-01-11)
  [4715] Well House Manor - Still five out of five! - (2016-10-30)

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