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Lezard Bleu

"I like the complete overview of all different rooms for the entire month and the simple entry of guest information."

Nikola completed her drama studies and joined the theatre. Christoph travelled the five continents and sailed the seven seas. She made a career on the stage and was captured on film in a number of roles. He fell in love with the Cape and dreamt of settling there. She spent years dreaming of a little hotel somewhere.

The two minds have united, the outcome being Lezard Bleu: A house at the Cape, where Chris and Niki offer accommodation for those who enjoy being spoilt.

Since 1998 they have been their own manual system and wanted to take direct bookings easily through their website, whilst easily managing their business in one place. After learning our South African competitors only work on certain operating systems, they were pleased to find Inn Style.

Tell us a bit about your accommodation…

“Lezard Bleu is a Guest House right at the foot of Table Mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town in a rather quiet and very green area, Oranjezicht, as in the old days you could see from here the one bastion of the castle called Oranje.

Our house nestled in a 1840 sqm property with a big pool, 14 old palm trees and plenty of other trees and greenery. We have 6 rooms in the main house and one guest room in a timber house on the slopes of the property.”

What led you to joining Inn Style?

“We never had a system… We started 27 years ago and since we were always working with Mac’s I just had my self-knitted spreadsheet for all rooms and bookings but was not able to integrate Nightsbridge or similar as those programs where just for Windows computer.

We wanted to provide visitors via our website, as well as travel agents, the opportunity to check availability online and, in the case of potential guests, to book a room in our house from our website which was not possible before. Agents and interested folks always had to call or send an email to enquire about availability.”

What do you love the most about Inn Style?

“It is very easy to use, for users on both ends. The availability page on our website is fast and easy to find out about availability, as well as it is for me to book in new guests or block rooms provisionally for a certain period for agent enquiries. I like the complete overview of all different rooms for the entire month and the simple entry of guest information.

The support has plainly been excellent. Samantha Williams was a jewel in any aspect of set up and quick follow up questions, supporting me with every little issue I encountered. The swiftness and support in setting everything up and the direct support to our webmaster has been outstanding.”

Do you want to add anything else?

“Not right now, since I am probably only using 20 % of the real system capabilities, I will probably discover more over time.

I think we can offer praise to Samantha once again and also the very effective customer support of the Inn Style payment gateways.”

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