Accent Inns Blog

Sure, we thought about coming up with a new and exciting name for our blog: Ol’ Bloggy Blog.
The Duck Stops Here. Kevin.

But at the end of the day, our Google experts said that if people are looking for our blog, they aren’t going to search “The Duck Stops Here”. Or sadly, “Kevin”.

So, welcome to the Accent Inns Blog, where we’ll post stories about what’s going on in our hotels, at our locations, and more.

(By the way, if you do come up with a great name for the blog, let us know—and then we’ll let our experts know, who will let Google and Bing and all the other search engines know. You know?)

Giving Thanks – It’s That Time of Year Again

Thanksgiving is a time when we get together with our families and spend a few moments, perhaps just before diving into the turkey, to give thanks for that which we are grateful. It is usually a very personal, private, almost introspective moment that we choose to share with those close to us.

October 4th, 2016 in Travel

CFB Esquimalt Welcomes New Honorary Captain

News Release September 27, 2016 – Ottawa – National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces Today members of Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt were officially introduced to their new Honorary Captain (Navy), local hotelier, Mandy Farmer. HCapt(N) Farmer met the members of the Base following their “Base Divisions”, a quarterly parade held at the base where honours Read the rest of this entry »

September 28th, 2016 in News

The Pros and Cons of Tour Group Travel

Back in the late 1970’s I went on a gourmet bus tour of Romania – no I’m not making this up. It was several days into the tour before a few of us started to question what meat we were eating; it always seemed the same and was a little tough; some said pork, others Read the rest of this entry »

September 27th, 2016 in Travel

Applying for Scholarships Can Be a Full-time Job

I was talking to the Director of Marketing for Accent Inns (Mountain Man, John Espley) the other day, and he was telling me that Accent is expanding its employee scholarship program to introduce five family scholarships. With going back to school on everyone’s minds at the moment, this got me thinking about how hard it Read the rest of this entry »

September 20th, 2016 in Community

It’s not just guests that are looked after at Accent Inns

Local Super Hero, Accents Inns, has launched a scholarship program for children of their staff Sept. 13, 2016, Victoria, BC – Accent Inns has made back to school a little easier for five families this year by supporting employees and their children through a new scholarship program.

September 13th, 2016 in Community

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