Hello David,
Many thanks for taking the time to talk to the readers of Blackpool Aloud.
For those that don’t know you own the Langtrys Blackpool, a five star B&B on King Edward Avenue and were recently featured on Channel 5′s Hotel Inspector. What prompted you to go on the programme?
Purely and simply for the publicity, we could not have reached the audience that the Hotel Inspector reaches and with the repeats we felt it was a risk well worth taking.
What effect did being on television have for your business?
It was immediate as soon as the programme aired we had to un plug the phone, because we could not watch it, we saw it like everybody else we had no preview of it. On line bookings come in straight away plus over 100 emails on the night saying how lovely it looked. To date we have had over 55,000 visitors to our web site and guests from Australia and New Zealand because of the show.
Following your recent success, The Langtrys Blackpool is something of a pioneer for positive change, what advice would you give to other hoteliers in Blackpool who are looking to invest in their buildings but unsure about what to do?
You have to be committed to change, know your market, but look around and see what is happening. We believe that people do want a better standard of accommodation, and this will only increase as more will take holidays in this country due to the cost of air travel and everything that brings with it.
Blackpool has received a lot of investment in recent years with the new Prom, upgraded tram system and with future plans for the Talbot Gateway, as a Hotelier, what improvements would you like to see in Blackpool?
We would like the proposed Ski Centre to be a reality, investment in the Tower and Winter Gardens to go ahead which in turn would bring further investment in to the Town. Blackpool has so much to offer and will have so much more in the years to come.
Finally, with Langtrys Blackpool offering a premier service do you have any plans to capitalise on Blackpool being in the Premier League?
We do have some plans but they are still in the planning stage at the moment, but it will not be much longer before we put them into action.
David, thank you so much for taking the time to speak to the readers of Blackpool Aloud and we wish you every success in the summer and season to come.
For more information on Langtrys Blackpool and the excellent facilities they offer go to: www.langtrysblackpool.co.uk
For a look at some pictures of the hard work put in in transforming Langtrys Blackpool go to http://blackpoolaloud.org.uk/forums/showthread.php/994-Exclusive-Interview-David-Webb-owner-of-Langtrys-Blackpool
Excellent interview, Langtrys is just the sort of place Blackpool needs much more of, upmarket high quality accomodation. I also like the fact they are clearly positive about Blackpool and like me support the proposed snowdome at Central Station, I really hope that goes ahead too. It is time we got some high-quality private sector investment into Blackpool. Keep up the good work Langtrys.
Out of interest what has happened to all those articles and comments that were on here last night. I wrote a long comment on the Talbot Gateway article but it has disappeared, anyone know what’s happended?
You are right TB,articles have vanished without trace.
And comments as well, we were having quite a lively discussion on this thread and it has all vanished.
Apologies Harold, the forum had a problem last night, so a few bits have gone missing as a result. We hope to get the problem sorted as soon as we can though.
Thanks,its a great site,badly needed!
Yes I cant see anything that was said as being really bad,even I have been restrained;its much better than the Gasjet farce which is still going on.
I’m sure there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for it. But the Gasjet has become a total joke. I have got that obnoxious leftie cardy attacking me from one corner, that bigotted pro-smoking bully Alfred Huckett from another and that irritating idiot ItzNotWotItWoz writing offensive comments at me from another corner. They are all ganging up on me saying I am the deleter. I have bombarded the Gasjet and Johnston Press with complaints and yet nothing has been done and I am getting very annoyed. I may just go to the PCC if it carries on. It clearly says on the Terms and Conditions that offenders will have their accounts suspended and if they use fake emails their accounts will be terminated.
I wonder is the Gasjets circulation is diminshing??
For general rants please use the forum instead! This topic is about Langtrys and not the Gasjet deletions.
Go here and sign up, then make topics to your hearts content!
The forum is the best place for discussions! Plus there’s more of us over there!