{"id":23766,"date":"2011-08-26T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=23766"},"modified":"2011-08-26T00:44:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:44:43","slug":"bingley-tours-sweet-service-and-ons-huisie-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/bingley-tours-sweet-service-and-ons-huisie-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingley Tours Sweet Service and Ons Huisie Sour Service Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> \u00a0goes to Bingley Tours, for rushing to\u00a0Cape Town International\u00a0airport at 15 minutes notice last week, to deliver a cellphone that\u00a0 a Whale Cottage Camps Bay guest had left behind.\u00a0 This is the second Sweet Service Award for the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong>\u00a0 goes to Ons Huisie in Blouberg, and is nominated by Cynthia Querido: \u201cI’d like to nominate Ons Huisie for a sour service award for charging the astronomical sum of R28,00 for\u00a0one small bran muffin.\u00a0 Admittedly, the muffin included about 5 pats of butter which were totally unnecessary for a small muffin, as well as about\u00a08 small sealed jam portions.\u00a0 Rather ridiculous:\u00a0 I mean where were you supposed to put all those condiments? – certainly not on the muffin.\u00a0 I complained to the manager, asking how they could justify such a price.\u00a0He couldn’t help; he only worked there!\u00a0I left my email address & was assured I’d be contacted by the owner.\u00a0 That was several days ago. This is\u00a0daylight robbery.\u00a0They obviously feel they can charge these outrageous prices because of the\u00a0God-given scenery\u00a0– but there are innumerable restaurants with equally stunning outlooks who don’t\u00a0insist on taking\u00a0customers for a ride. I’m interested to know how they arrived at such a price for a product which must’ve cost under R1. That\u00a0little\u00a0‘repast’\u00a0certainly left a sour taste in my mouth\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at <\/span>info@whalecottage.com<\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales <\/span><\/strong>newsletters on the <\/span>www.whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a> website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award \u00a0goes to Bingley Tours, for rushing to\u00a0Cape Town International\u00a0airport at 15 minutes notice last week, to deliver a cellphone that\u00a0 a Whale Cottage Camps Bay guest had left behind.\u00a0 This is the second Sweet Service Award for the company.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Sour Service Award\u00a0 goes to Ons Huisie in Blouberg, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,20,248,22,21],"tags":[2096,1167,32378,12824,12823,252,163,32373,1771],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t