{"id":53926,"date":"2014-02-07T09:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=53926"},"modified":"2014-02-07T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T07:17:53","slug":"twelve-apostles-sweet-and-stellenbosch-municipality-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/twelve-apostles-sweet-and-stellenbosch-municipality-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Apostles Sweet and Stellenbosch Municipality Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"12<\/a>The\u00a0Sweet Service Award<\/strong>\u00a0goes to the Twelve Apostles Hotel and its GM Horst Frehse and Housekeeping Manager Laaiqah Raven, for their collegiality in lending us some duvet inners and bed linen when we needed to make up twin bed rooms for a group of UK wine sales representatives staying at Whale Cottage recently. \u00a0The hotel did not charge (we have heard that this is a practice of the Mount Nelson Hotel), and the collection and return was very efficient.<\/p>\n

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\"Stellenbosch<\/a>The\u00a0Sour Service Award<\/strong>\u00a0goes to the Stellenbosch Municipality, which has been doing extensive work on Akademie Street, one of the roads in Franschhoek onto which our Whale Cottage guest house faces. \u00a0The work was noisy and sections of the road were closed, but we did not receive any notification from the municipality about the work, and how long it would take. \u00a0The final straw was that the municipality cut through six major TELKOM cables, crippling all accommodation establishments in the area as well as their usage of the internet, phone and fax lines! \u00a0The sections of the road in which the new cables were laid have not been re-tarred six months later!<\/p>\n

The\u00a0WhaleTales 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\u00a0\u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the\u00a0WhaleTales\u00a0<\/strong>newsletters on the\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Sweet Service Award\u00a0goes to the Twelve Apostles Hotel and its GM Horst Frehse and Housekeeping Manager Laaiqah Raven, for their collegiality in lending us some duvet inners and bed linen when we needed to make up twin bed rooms for a group of UK wine sales representatives staying at Whale Cottage recently. \u00a0The hotel did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[7,15,3,124,14,22,21],"tags":[4925,32378,51,23669,1326,21714,566,2495,9,32373,1771],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\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