Killarney based Irish B&B Owners Association and Kerry insight are to lose their founder Michael Sharpe and longtime manager John Dicker to retirement. Twenty-five years ago Michael launched the award-winning Kerry Insight. It was the first regional website in Ireland and for many years was the number one website for Kerry. As the Internet matured,… Read More »
As market trends change, we have to change with them. Often we have been the first to introduce new ideas and minimise the cost to B&B Owners. However, the trends created by the presence of AirBnB has forced many B&B Owners to offer rooms without breakfast to compete effectively. To meet this trend any member… Read More »
The Ireland B&B Owners Association Gold Membership fees were due on 1st September 2019 – If you have already paid please ignore the rest of this post. To maintain the B&B Owners Associations low admin costs, your dashboard homepage displays a credit card payment form for easy payment – https://my-bnb.com If you have not renewed by… Read More »
Due to the online travel agents (booking.com and alike) and their emphasis on hotels with “reservation staff” the last minute booking is now creeping into the B&B Sector bigtime. The B&B Owners day is a busy one, particularly in the season but a regular check on your bookings will save a lot of hassle. There has… Read More »
PLEASE READ: About 80% of our members in Ireland have a registered Stripe account and many use it to take payment with one click or use the virtual terminal on their smartphone on a regular basis. However, those not registered have seen increasing problems due to a change in consumer trends. This year we have seen… Read More »
Further to our recent post regarding cancellations, we have enhanced the system to make it much easier to use. (updated: 22 July 2019) YOU may wish to cancel a booking that you previously confirmed You can cancel for any of the following reasons You stop providing Bed & Breakfast Are closed due to illness or… Read More »
The sign above is available as a PDF file for you to printout and display in your reception area. Each one will be personalised with your website address or blue circle page.
The OTAs (booking.com and alike) methodology in taking bookings has created a new consumer behaviour – “I can cancel any time regardless”. Although this is a great selling point for OTAs, it is not helpful to B&B owners. In order to protect our members from cancellations on a whim, we have made a number of… Read More »
All members of Ireland’s B&B Owners Association are featured on the Blue Circle Club website (BCC). Some are missing bullet points – can you check your page and advise of any bullet points you wish to add. Visit: https://bluecircleclub.com/map/ireland/ Anyone who books through the B&B Owners Association’s various websites, is invited to join Blue Circle… Read More »
Irish B&B Owners properties are only listed in the Blue Circle Club “Travel Agents” dashboard if they have set up a agents discount in their My B&B dashboard. https://my-bnb.comIn other words, you are missing out on bookings from the independent travel agents we have signed up. These are mostly in the USA but some from… Read More »