Its been a hectic few days since last Tuesday when we exchanged contracts on the Plough and Harrow Hotel in Birmingham. The deal is set to complete tommorrow morning Monday 22nd February and it has been a real challenge to try to get supplier deals in place within 5 days!
Thank goodness for some old supplier contacts from my days at Paten Hotels who have managed to fast track account applications and with one or two exceptions, Fruit and Veg and diary, I am confident we are almost there and ready to go.
Now as to the choice of GDS and PMS supplier for the Plough and Harrow I have finally settled on a combination of Clarity Hotel Systems for the PMS and Synxis for the GDS and WBE services.
The choice was extremely difficult and I was surprised by how competitive the proposals were, not to mention the excellent products put forward by Clarity, Guestline and Protel for the PMS and Travelclick, Evolution, Synxis and XN Hotels for the GDS.
I am sure that Clarity and Synxis will develop and excellent working relationship with us over the coming years and together we will develop and effective and rewarding distribution and operational framework for the hotel.
With this important decision now made I will be focussing my attention on turning the Plough and Harrow Hotel back into a first class individual hotel like it used to be before it went through 15 to 20 years of being owned by corporate groups who failed to invest in the product.
Exciting times and you can follow what we do on our website which will be http://www.ploughandharrowhotel.co.uk/ ( a temporary page will go up in the next few days) and if you are ever in Birmingham then come and see us.
Best Wishes
Robert Smith
Sunday 21 February 2010
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