More "Reality" on the way for Tori and Dean--and viewers

I just found this online via the Hollywood Reporter....looks like we will get to see Tori and Dean continue their trials and tribulations of "running an inn" for another season. Perhaps they will take the time to actually purchase the inn, or mabe we can be treated to what the owners think of what Tori and Dean have done to their bed and breakfast. I am sure there are some other innkeepers out there who would like to hear about this experience from Patricia King's point of view.....Or maybe the next season could show real, actual innkeepers staying at the inn and giving them tips on hospitality, cooking, cleaning, painting, gardening, making reservations, etc.

By Kimberly Nordyke Mon May 7, 3:22 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Women's cable channel Oxygen has renewed its reality series "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" for a second season.
The show, starring Tori Spelling' and husband Dean McDermott, will return in the third quarter with 10 new episodes. Season 2 will follow the couple as they continue running Chateau La Rue, their bed and breakfast in Fallbrook, Calif., while juggling the demands of being new parents to son Liam Aaron.

Real Life Innkeeping Reality vs. Myth or TV

To demonstrate that while some of what is displayed on "Tori and Dean: Inn Love" is true:

Yes, B and B's make breakfast, usually it is very organized.

Yes, sometimes guests bring children that they have NOT told you about, you deal with it.

Yes, sometimes you may accidently double book guests, or cancel some one in error and then it is your responsibility to find them a place to stay--but NOT generally your own quarters, with your stuff still in place--how about springing for another inn or even, gasp, a hotel as it was your mistake.

Yes, sometime innkeepers are in fact also pregnant, and they still manage.

And, yes, sometimes innkeepers have emergencies and have to leave, but they always have someone take over first, and then leave.

Odds of all this occurring on the same night--fairly unheard of...

Bed and Breakfast inns for real

Opposed to what you see on Tori and Dean's show "Inn Love", running a bed and breakfast is hard work, and many of us do that work ourselves. We do not have someone to run it for us, nor do we call someone or give up at the first sign of trouble.

Rita and I have painted several of the rooms in the inn ourselves, in addition to the decorating, cooking, cleaning, furnishing, gardening, etc. only leaving the wiring, and exterior painting to professionals. It we had a one story house, we might have even done that ourselves.

There is not "someone else" taking reservations, staying up to greet late arrivals, or making breakfast, shopping, etc. It is us--and Lily helps too.

While it is most certainly work, doing what you love, innkeeping is a passion as well.

Update on Inn Love reality????

The following are the comments I posted to bnbfinder after watching the show tonight:

I wish them all the best and while I am sure that they mean well, the fact that it is a “reality” show makes me think they are just acting to generate interest. I hope they show innkeeping as it really is (despite the above) and that not all inns are “frilly”, and have gnomes in the garden, or are “musty and dusty”. Even in our 1902 Queen Anne (the Albert Shafsky House in Placerville, CA) the frills are kept to a minimum. B&B’s today are attracting all ages, and if this generates more guests (for all of us, not just them), then it is a win for all innkeepers.One note, they need to get a real website–how can you even find the inn, without the help of the Oxygen promos. Most reservations are made online today, particularly by the crowd they say they want to attract.

I did not add how very cheesy the whole thing felt and that I was embarassed for them as I watched. Kinda like watching a train wreck...you just can't stop....