Bed & Breakfast Guides :

Here is a list of the more popular guides, contact details and price indications:

Alastair Sawday Publishing
Home Farm Stables
Barrow Court Lane
Barrow Gurney
Bristol 
BS48 3RW

This publishing house looks for people and places that they like, but also for people and properties that will please a wide range of potential guests. They search for specialness: in the owner's personality, in the architecture, furniture, decoration, history, food, and in the surroundings, garden or in peacefulness. Each B&B in the guidebook is a fascinating cocktail of those things. 

At the heart of their choice is the owner. The finest and most comfortable houses may have been turned down because the owner is grumpy or aloof, or the atmosphere cold. Equally they have less-than-perfect houses - some even slightly dusty or chaotic or crumbling - but with owners to whom they have felt so drawn that were included. 

All applicants are subject to inspection and approval by Alastair Sawday Publishing.

Edition 9 of the title, 'British Bed and Breakfast' will be published in September 2004. As a guide, the rates for this publication depend on the number of rooms varying from one to six. 

The publication date for Ireland edition 9 is scheduled for Spring 2005. This includes Hotels and Self-catering properties. 

Edition 3 of the title Bed and Breakfast for Garden Lovers is due to be published in January 2005. Some French properties will appear in this publication. 

Further information including rates for the above mentioned titles can be obtained by phoning the publisher on 01275 464891 or clicking onto www.specialplacestostay.com

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