Archive for April, 2009

We are pleased to announce that we are one of the four properties that have been short listed for the Chester and Cheshire Self Catering Tourism Award 2009. This is the second year running that we have been selected as a finalist for this award.

Thank you to all the guests who wrote complimentary comments in the guest book, as this was used as supporting evidence in our nomination, and also to everyone else that supports us with the upkeep and maintenance of the apartment.

Particular thanks to Simon Tiplady for his hard work in providing us with our wonderful ‘Chester Canalside Holidays’ website and also to Sue and her team at Poppies who keep the apartment so beautifully clean.

There “fried” onto the control board was a slug, so always beware if your electric circuits stop working it could just be because a slug curled up for a sleep on it and got fried in the process.

Well what a change we have had over the last few months, Simon finally left home and moved permanently back to the UK, he now lives back in Cheshire and is getting used to the chilly weather again. Graham said it would never happen, but he hadnt taken into account the effect Lisa would have on him!!  

After years of him living at home and us chatting over breakfast and lunch about tweeks and changes to our websites it seems very strange to have to call him or chat on MSM about it. Despite this, we have managed a complete relaunch of our Chester Canalside Holidays website http://www.stayinchester.com we hope you like it. We have bookings for Wharton Lock Apartment right through to 2010 and have over a third of guests book a second, third or fourth holiday, so hopefully the new website will help us continue from strength to strength! 

On our last trip to Chester we enjoyed some wonderful sunny days with blue skies, so out came the camera and now we have some really lovely views on the website. Borrowing our 6 year old neice and giving her a loaf of bread to feed to the ducks certainly helped with the river and canal photos. 

Simon has really done a good job with the website, it looks so much brighter and behind the scenes we have a new backoffice system which makes our life a lot easier. So thanks again Simon for all your work. x x