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Welcome back to another newsletter from La Fregate, world renowned not only for poor content but incredibly poor grammar. It’s taken me months to come up with anything worthy to grace these electronic pages. I wasn’t going to bother but I kept getting offers from PR companies and marketing gunu’s to write it for me but I wasn’t sure that my current readership would appreciate this air of professionalism.
I would like to say a big thanks to all of you (well, the ones sending us money or indeed pointing other people’s wallets in our direction) for your support in 2009. It was tricky for all of us in some shape or form but looking back we had an incredibly good year considering the doom and gloom forecasts. Even frozen airports and drifting snows didn’t stop us !
PS a big thanks to Jennifer at Northern Trust for her help ! |
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Party Menus have been updated
It's February and its also time to update our Party Menus.
The Eagle eyed amongst you will realize very quickly that the only thing that has changed is the date ! but this does mean that the prices have not changed either !
A full review of what we have to offer will take place in May when the weather changes for the warmer and the produce available takes on a more summer like feeling.
Another service we are now offering to a number of our customers is a sandwich / buffet delivery service, we don’t want to do too many but we are happy to discuss your individual requirements to see if we can help out. As per usual, we are not prepared to do things we cant do well but we are always happy to have a chat to see if we can help.
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Are you worried about Polar Bears?
Anybody living in the UK will be well aware of the Siberian like conditions that have gripped the country for months now, and with this in mind I offer a word of warning.
We have been told be scientists (so it must be true) that the Polar ice caps are melting and therefore the Polar Bears have no where to live because their homes are melting. Where do you think they are going to move to? Yep you guessed it, the UK!
Don’t be surprised to see them walking down your local high street, hanging around on street corners in gangs and probably claiming benefits and pinching all your jobs.
Well, don’t panic because we are here to help. Working on the principle that you normally work during the week and chances are you work with a number of people, the law of averages would dictate that the bear would go for someone in your midst who wasn’t so quick off the mark but, the time to panic is the weekend.If a rogue polar bear, who’s probably been drinking and can't find a kebab shop open, pitches up at your house looking for a feed, then what can you do?, throw the wife/husband at them, maybe a small child or two? .
The answer to this very real problem is easy, come to us for a weekend break! It's well known that Guernsey is far too warm for polar bears and even if they did manage to get this far, La Fregate is famous for being difficult to find even if you have a map and polar bears cannot read maps so we can guarantee your safety.
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Bob on his regular Polar Bear patrol
Escape the Polar Bear Weekend Breaks
Bid for a weekend in the suite
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Ethan - "You can see our house from here !"
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La Fregate Hits the Fast Lane !
Taking a lead from the likes of Virgin and Braun. La Fregate has yet again entered the high octain fuelled world of motorsport. Some of you may remember our previous exploits with a Le Mans entry in 2004, wel this year we are keeping things a little closer to home.
A friend of the hotel's and all round good guy (Paul Brehaut) has decided that his youngest lad Ethan is destined for great things on a motorbike. I have known Ethan for a few years now and from a very early age he showed a rather unhealthy disregard for his own safety and for anyone else with 50 feet of him for that matter. In order to slow him down a bit and to channel his rather high energy levels, his dad decided to pu him on a motorbike and see what happens.
After a very brief induction period filled with regular visits to various parts of the local scenery, Ethan is now racing in the junior motocross championship here in Guernsey.
We are really happy to be helping this star in the making and hope he remembers us when he gets to be world champion!
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Gunfight on Guernsey - Its a Massacre!
In an attempt at team building and trying to take onboard what all those personnel types have told me over the years, we decided to do something a bit different for our Christmas staff party this year. To be honest our previous attempts at staff get-togethers have usually led to alcoholic poisoning, arrests, fights and severe cases of amnesia.
This year was going to be different, I was determined that everyone would a, remember the event and b, not wreck our local hostelries. With this in mind it was decided to send the guys on a day of shooting each other !
As you can imagine, we have a number of nationalities working with us and some of the CV’s on file have a few blank areas, thoughts turned to Spetsnaz trained waiters and Portuguese freedom fights amongst our midst!
The day was suitably freezing, damp, and muddy and was reminiscent of Serbia. Some of our guys looked right at home crawling around with an AK 47 in fact some of them looked far too natural for my liking. Armed with a collection of firearms, grenades, and smoke bombs we shot holes in each other for over four hours and had an absolute riot. A special thanks to the guys at Battletec for putting on such a great show, everyone really enjoyed the event especially the ones who shot me on a regular basis.
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Go on click it - you know you want to !
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Which Hotel Good Food Guide
Those nice people at the Good Food Guide have decided to include us yet again in there current guide.
By all accounts this is based on feedback that you have provided to them about us so I suppose a big thank you is in order.
They are now asking for nominations for local restaurants and they have provided a very useful link for you to have your say. I must admit, the thought did cross my mind that I should just leave it at the "We made the book" level but in the interests of "customer power" We would be more than happy for you to give your valuable input!
I'm just waiting now to see all the local competition logging in to give us a real bashing !
The Which Good Food Guide Link
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