Guests cooking meals

[Bobbykins]

Hi, We have had our chambres D'hotes now for just over a year, and just resently we have been getting requests from people who want to book up if they can use our kitchen to cook their own meals. has anyone had the same request and if so what was you reply. I would be interested to find out. Many thanks, Bob.

[Suze01]

Chambre/table d'hôte??  If it's a chambre/table d'hôte then that is what it is.  If they want to cook for themselves them they should book a gite.

[Cendrillon]

[quote user="Bobbykins"]Hi, We have had our chambres D'hotes now for just over a year, and just resently we have been getting requests from people who want to book up if they can use our kitchen to cook their own meals. has anyone had the same request and if so what was you reply. I would be interested to find out. Many thanks, Bob.[/quote]

Goodness me, whatever next![blink]

No way should guests expect to cook in your kitchen.[Www]

We often stay overnight in a studio on the way home to the ferry, although the accommodation is kitted out and classed as a studio there is no way we are allowed to cook for ourselves there or use the kitchen facilities as we are there on a B&B basis. We know madame quite well now and understand that she has to make and respect the difference. She arrives each morning with an excellent breakfast for us. Other people book the accommodation for a week at a time and then it becomes a studio with full access to the kitchen facilites within the studio.

[Théière]

Offer them the chance to do the washing up![:D]

It would not be a chambre D'hotes it would be a youth hostel [blink]

[LEO]

[quote user="Bobbykins"]Hi, We have had our chambres D'hotes now for just over a year, and just resently we have been getting requests from people who want to book up if they can use our kitchen to cook their own meals. has anyone had the same request and if so what was you reply. I would be interested to find out. Many thanks, Bob.[/quote]

I think these people are pulling your leg

[mint]

I suppose it would be a different matter if they were cooking your meals as well, wouldn't it?[;-)]

Just put that to them and I bet they'll soon stop asking to cook in your kitchen.

[Cerise]

I've had this request a few times, and the answer was always 'No!'.  However this year I have let one or two families use the barbeque in the garden.  I think some French owned B & Bs do provide a cooking area and certainly not all our French guests exactly 'get' the concept of Chambres d'Hôtes!  (No, Mmme Unetelle, your 14 passing relatives can't share your room for a couple of nights[:)]!).

Sweet 17 - a couple of years ago I badly injured my foot in August - one very lovely lady customer, seeing that I looked tired and in pain, stepped in and cooked dinner for us all.  I really appreciated that, but don't expect it to happen often.

[cassis]

We only get asked this by French guests - some chambres d'hôtes do provide a "coin cuisine" in some rooms or have a cooking area in the dining room for guests' use.  We just tell them we don't have a coin cuisine and there is no access to the kitchen.

[Chancer]

I have only stayed in one French CDH during my firts weeks whilst taking a intensive language course, the family only cooked for guests on alternative evenings to allow themselves some sanity time (a very good idea IMHO)

For the nights that they didnt provide food they gave me the details of a restaurant in the next village or said that I could use the cuisine in the cellar (the formers servants quarters) which as I was on a budget I did, I am pretty sure that I was the first person ever to have done so judging by the dust and the fact that I had to complete the plumbing to the hob.

I think that they had the balance about right even if most of their well heeled customers did not use the kitchen, not everyone has the means or the desire to be fed each and every night by the hosts.

[ViVienne]

we were pleasantly suprised when we stayed in a French B & B as they had converted a barn into a kitchen and lounge for the guests to use, it was also where they served breakfast. Maybe it is more common for French owned establishments to provide these facilities.

[Callie]

The concept of B&B, CdH, etc has changed and evolved over the years. People are offering more and more for their guests in an effort to attract business - and some guests are getting more and more demanding. Prices have also increased as many B&Bs are offering almost hotel-like facilities. I had to laugh at some French guests who asked me the following morning if I changed the sheets and towels every day !!!!!!!

The "coin cuisine" idea has been around for quite a while, but as for asking to use the host's kitchen.....well !!!!!! Sometimes it's really hard to keep a straight face at some of the requests - which are sometimes just a little unrealistic !

[Fi]

Reminds of the so-called "day-off" when I was chalet hosting.  Had to tell guests that they weren't insured to use the kitchen (a big fib) otherwise they would nick all the food out of the fridge destined for the next day (plus our secret stash of cheddar and Branston), and look surprised when they had to play frisbee catch with flung porridge and eggs from p****d off chalet staff the next morning.....  Used to get my own back with the massed bands of the Pipes and Drums for 4am wake-up call on changeover day (hope none of you stayed in my chalet btw!)

Fi

[Wilko]

We provide fridges, m/wave, BBQ, cutlery, plates, glasses etc for our guests. The clients clear up after themselves and it is a feature that has worked well in this cedit crunch year. We don't allow access to our kitchen. As I type there are 6 guests in the auvent all eating together, theyare independent of each other, so it also gets the guests to socialise amongst themselves.

Wilko