by Tami Vickery | May 5, 2026
We use lots of guest quotes in our social media and on our website, usually things like ‘we had a wonderful time’, ‘what a great place’, and ‘fabulous food, brilliant service’. So why have we chosen to headline a blog with a genuine comment that apparently points at a...
by Tami Vickery | Mar 6, 2026
Day two of my quick trip to Guildford began in the most glorious style…a great cup of coffee and a spot of Breakfast TV. Refreshed, I stepped out of the hotel and at the advice of the Night Manager, I turned right and headed a few hundred metres down the road and into...
by Tami Vickery | Dec 4, 2025
I was in Guildford to visit the nearby Watts Gallery and Artists’ Village for the Peter Brookes Exhibition of Political Cartoons, having been delighted by the gallery and the exhibition I drove to Mandolay to check-in. The helpful receptionists was a little nonplussed...
by Tami Vickery | Nov 4, 2025
The Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence are generally accepted as the most prestigious in our industry, and while it might sound somewhat trite to say it, we really were honoured to be nominated once again this year. Created to acknowledge, reward and celebrate...
by Tami Vickery | Jul 24, 2025
While it’s the big names like Marks & Spencer, Boots, WH Smith and shopping centres that attract people, it is so often the smaller, independently owned businesses that give a town its character. And that is certainly the case in Guildford. We have a selection of...
by Tami Vickery | May 15, 2025
As a proud Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality, I agree wholeheartedly with one of the organisations key aims to ‘Help inspire and develop young people and educators to help ensure hospitality is seen as a progressive career choice’. This is why we attend, and...
