Eastern Cape Komani bed and breakfast.

The best hotels are usually run as family businesses. Unless you’re interested in cold fish treatment, corporate colours and unimaginative environments, travelling to the Eastern Cape province of South Africa should be an experience of warmth, good food and a cheerful environment. A family run business has the advantage of being homely but powerfully motivated to give the guest a good experience of staying in the guest house. People who might be prepared to do more. Staying in a family run bed and breakfast gives the guest an opportunity to relax that corporate concerns are simply unable to provide. Almost any place will have a swimming pool, electric blankets and modern conveniences, but not everywhere will one find people to talk to and the chance of a little spontaneity. It’s about respect I guess. Why should.a massive corporation have respect for one customer among millions of others? It’s easy to see why a smaller but successful place is going to be more attentive to the needs of the consumer because it’s their bread and butter. Feeling anonymous and unimportant is less than satisfactory on a journey where one has to pay for accommodation. Noone enjoys wasting their money and smaller, family run businesses understand that far better than the big boys of the hospitality industry. Ask yourself if you need a plain room with facilities or a uniquely decorated room with the richness of original artwork, furniture that someone takes trouble over and a cook who cares. Everybody likes to feel special and well looked after and the way to get that for yourself while still staying within your budget is to look out for the perfect little gems that are built from the ground up by the love of family and friends and a sincere desire to make a real contribution to the happiness of others.

Travelling doesn’t have to be uncomfortable and irksome. It can become a real pleasure when you take the time to find yourself a good family run bed and breakfast.