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31. januar 2023
We visited the Chateau des Salles near the Gironde today to enquire about evening meals when our friends visit from the UK in October. The chateau is pretty and the setting calm but unpretentious. However, the chatelaine is probably the most miserable chateau/hotel/restaurant owner that it has been my misfortune to meet. His face was sour and resentful, his attitude surly and unfriendly and his approach to potential business opportunities atrocious. There was, for example, no hint of the kind of food that he has served in the past for the season, he insisted that we maintain a minimum distance whilst he wore a Covid mask - just how does he expect to serve meals to customers and maintain some sort of conviviality? - he only gave us some basic detail on the chateau when asked and gave nothing to try to attempt to lure customers in and when we asked if we could see around the minimal grounds, he insisted that we take two minutes only!! We left thinking that if that was his approach to customer relations, then he could shove it, there being no way that we would subject our friends, or ourselves for that matter, to such misery. I do NOT recommend that people visit this place until the owner has a complete change of attitude but I fear that that will be a very long time in coming. A complete shame.
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