Thoughtful Words of Appreciation

Throughout each year the CABBI office receives thoughtfully penned letters, cards, e-mail... and heart-warming phone calls. These kind messages are delivered by a vast wealth of: individual CABBI Innkeepers and Aspiring Innkeepers; Bed & Breakfast Inn guests; business associates; as well as the media.

Since good news is always made better by sharing it with friends, please allow us to offer you a glimpse into our communications file.

• CABBI is a standard setter, on the forefront of the industry!
  Greta Zeit, Backyard Garden Oasis
• Thanks! Your gift certificate service is a great program!
  David Wells, John Dougherty House, Mendocino
• Congratulations on your (CABBI InnSpire) conference. I heard from several inns that it was a real winner. Thanks for your hard work on the behalf of our industry.
  Pamela Lanier, Pamela Lanier's Travel Guides Online
• We would like to tell all of you - both the Board of CABBI Directors and members as well - how much we at the Packard House enjoyed the recent Town Hall meeting (held in Mendocino). We really enjoyed meeting the visiting innkeepers and love innkeeping... and hope to be doing it for a very long time. Thank you very much.
  Maria at Packard House in Mendocino
• To ALL at CABBI: The event on Tuesday at Mendocino was just what the doctor ordered - beautiful inns, beautiful town and beautiful people. Thank you for putting on a beautiful show. The CABBI staff and all involved are the top of our list. We hope to see you often and we will be in touch. From the bottom of our hearts: BRAVO!
  Don and Marlena, Thatcher Inn Bed & Breakfast
• Thanks so much for including us in your gift certificate program. It is a great service for us all.
  Sincerely, Donna Donnelly, Mgr, Inn At Playa Del Rey
• We appreciate our CABBI affiliation and the hard work that you are putting forth on our behalf.
  Phyllis Rick, Innkeeper, Crystal Terrace Inn
• I am just starting my 13th season in the Napa Valley and think CABBI is the best organization ever.
  Rae Ellen, Calistoga Country Lodge
• The best part of this whole CABBI experience is the NETWORKING. Innkeepers are great! Meeting these friendly and helpful people has given me the confidence I need to know that I am doing things right and well. I am truly grateful.
  Doreen Thornhill, Chichester-McKee House
• In my opinion, CABBI is a very effective organization in promoting and improving the innkeeping business in California and I would like to reciprocate if I can and to the extent that I can.
  Luciano Zamboni, Victorian Gardens Inn, Manchester
• (CABBI) is a growing organization and vital to the California B&B industry.
  Rick Anderson, Casa Tropicana, San Clemente
• When making phone calls (to statewide innkeepers), I feel like I am extending the warm hospitality that I offer to my guests who stay at my inn. Once innkeepers hear and see the kind of hospitable organization CABBI is, they can feel good about becoming a part of CABBI.
  Kelly Robinson of Ballard Inn - noting her involvement in passing on a good word about CABBI
• Thank you so much for coordinating the gift certificate donations from 20 (CABBI) inns for the Diabetic Youth Foundation... The bed and breakfast area of our silent auction was very popular with our bidders and contributed to the enormous success of our event.
  Written to Kelly Robinson, Ballard Inn. From the Diabetic Youth Foundation - Celebrity Golf Classic Auction.
• I found your (CABBI Office) phone number in the South Australia B&B Town and Country brochure. Thank you for your kind of assistance. Your service is efficient... and an effective system.
  J. Fraser, Harare Zimbabwe
• Thank you for providing this great service!
  Inntraveler, Richmond, CA
• Having experienced a number of CABBI inns one couple writes: I don't know if your association ever provides special recognition to innkeepers who go "above and beyond." These innkeepers represent the very best your association and your profession could hope to offer.
  Larry and Jane Boston
• "We're setting the pace for other states to follow," said Glyn Davies, former president of CABBI board and owner of the AAA five-diamond Simpson House in Santa Barbara. "Our unified efforts are the first of its type in the country and have even reached the White House."
  Written up in the Telegram-Tribune Scripps Howard Newspaper - Sunday Travel
• We feel that educating our members - along with networking among ourselves - is vital. Underlying all that we do, as an organization, is the philosophy of cooperation... not competition.
  Ann Swett, Old Monterey Inn, Monterey
• The CABBI annual conference is one of the nation's oldest conferences for bed and breakfast innkeepers... It traditionally brings together some of the most experienced and successful innkeepers in the business.
  The Yellow Brick Road monthly publication
• Recently Meetings California asked planners to name their favorite small meeting sites. The survey revealed some surprising choices... Bed & Breakfast Inns... Chances are good that "novel" and "out-of-the-ordinary" - in the best sense of their meanings - are exactly what one will get by using a site that serves small meetings exclusively.
  Published in: Meetings California