{"id":68091,"date":"2015-06-26T07:17:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T05:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=68091"},"modified":"2015-06-26T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T05:17:45","slug":"pepler-alarms-sweet-service-and-robben-island-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/pepler-alarms-sweet-service-and-robben-island-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepler Alarms Sweet Service and Robben Island Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pepler-alarms-280x117\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to Pepler Alarms and its owner Pieter Pepler. \u00a0I visited my guest house in Franschhoek on a Saturday afternoon just before my overseas trip, and was surprised that I did not hear from Pepler when I set off the alarm in error. I had Pieter’s cell number in my phone, and called him instead of the control room in error. \u00a0He sent a staff member over within an hour, coming through from Paarl, to replace the battery.<\/p>\n

\"Robben<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to Robben Island, for its English-only communication, despite the visitors predominantly being tourists, who are not all able to speak English. \u00a0Two of our guests from Germany returned disappointed from their trip to the island, in that every word spoken is English, that the posters and photographs depicting the history of the island are in English, and the books sold in the shop are all in English too, which meant that they could not take anything with them as a momento of their visit to Robben Island! \u00a0Germany is one of our largest tourism source markets!<\/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 \u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog.<\/p>\n

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Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Tel (021) 433-2100, Twitter:@WhaleCottage \u00a0Facebook: \u00a0<\/strong>click here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to Pepler Alarms and its owner Pieter Pepler. \u00a0I visited my guest house in Franschhoek on a Saturday afternoon just before my overseas trip, and was surprised that I did not hear from Pepler when I set off the alarm in error. I had Pieter’s cell number in my phone, […]<\/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":[3,124,14,22,21],"tags":[32378,32369,560,31243,31242,87,5,32373,1771],"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