Christmas is coming!

Decorating for Christmas. All you who thought I was sitting on my arse eating bon-bons whilst Stuart was ripping up carpets etc, etc, this is what I've been doing and it ain't done yet!



Just a load of old balls!!!



Because we are #1!!!!

Santa waiting for the steam room to heat up. He'll have a long wait. It's out of order!!!



Mabel helping with the decorating!!!

Remodel is going well

You'll (YULE?), be pleased to know our recent remodeling on rooms 2, 5 and 7 is going well and actually in front of schedule. (Don't tell the help). One nightmare was getting the tub out of #7 which had to be cut in half to get it out of the bathroom! I'll save you the other nightmares. The wood tile is laid in both 2 and 7. Wood tile, that is to say, tile that looks like wood, duh!

Danny is busy putting  the new tile in the shower of #7 and very smart it looks too, white and gray. I am going to be the first person to shower there unless Danny beats me to it!! The bathroom window in #7 is also being replaced and the kitchen cabinets have been painted. The carpet is being ripped up in #5 as I type although the light is fading fast. I have to admit, putting plain carpet in all the rooms was a BIG mistake. There is a reason why casino carpeting is always multi-coloured. Room 2 is getting ceiling fans in the bedroom and sitting room. Ceiling hooks get in the way in the other rooms. Oh, and  the rooms are having fresh paint on the walls. I am so glad we are multi-billionaires! Oh and by the way Jim, there still isn't a dish-washer in 7!!!

Pictures to follow once everything gets cleaned up.

Santa Arrives at Chaps Inn!!

Well, here he is!!!

Mummified Santa? Something Suzi and Sara forgot to take home!!!!

Ahhh, that's better!!! Hellooooo!!

Where is everybody??!!

Gay Pride, Leather Pride

All decked out for Pride weekend caption

I can't begin to tell you how much we have both enjoyed the last couple of weeks spanning Gay Pride and Leather Pride weekends. We have welcomed back visitors from not only the United States, but Australia, Canada, New Zealand and England. Sorry to say we had a couple of cancellations. Bob & Bob couldn't make it this year and neither could Chris from Vancouver but here's hoping to see you in 2014. In fact, Chris has already booked. It is having times like these which makes us so pleased we do what we do and meet so many lovely men. Darren & Arthur CO, Ron GA, Jack & Roger San Francisco, Al & Gary also San Francisco. Richard & Mike from San Diego, Marc, Connor & Farrell from Toronto. We had two Franks, Frank 1 from Toronto, Frank 6 from Boston MA. Called 1 & 6 because of their room numbers..  Not forgetting Don and Jeff from San Diego who have been staying here for Gay Pride for at least 8 if not 10 years. It was great. We went to the Mr. Palm Springs Leather competition Saturday night, Mr. Off Ramp (www.offrampleathers.com) won to represent Palm Springs at IML next year. CONGRATS. Well deserved. The Leather competition was well attended and always gives us the opportunity to see and talk to many. many people who have stayed with us and now live here. (It's OK folks, you can drop by to visit instead of seeing you once a year at the competition!). We also managed to avoid a couple of people we didn't want to see, no names!!!!

Well, here's to next year!!!!!!!!



Suzi and Sarah weekend!!!

For those who don't know, we have a group from (mainly) San Diego who take the hotel for 3 nights over this weekend and have been doing so for around 6 or 7 years. Yes, lesbians into S&M!!! There are also a couple of straight couples.  However, we tend to stay out of the way and leave them to it.
It's a fun group but can be a bit noisy!!
Sorry but I can't figure out how to revolve the 'menu' but I think you'll get the gist



My hammock out the back away from everything



Menu for the weekend



Some apparatus by the pool

Temperature drops in Palm Springs!

Surprise!!!! Yes, I know, it's been a while!!!

We are now heading into Autumn and the temperature has dropped accordingly. Even so, we are getting up in the high 80's during the day. Lovely! No complaints here. We have also been very busy both during the week and weekends so I suppose 'season' has started. We've welcomed back many return visitors and a few newbies.

We've had guests in from (so far this month apart from California), New York City,  Las Vegas, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Wilton Manors, FL,  Key West, FL, Scottsdale, AZ, Pomfret CT, Arlington, VA, Denver, CO, Baton Rouge, LA and few Brits, Bournemouth and Manchester. Oh, and an executive producer for the X-Factor!!! No names.

We've also had visits from some of our regular 'locals', Erich, Tony, Neal, Paul, & Ed. Not forgetting Dennis, AJ and Peter.

It will be 13 years on October 31st since we moved here. We actually took possession November 1st 2000. Wow, thirteen years!!! Nobody is more surprised than we are!!  We ran the hotel as a straight hotel for the first 5 months when it was called the Colibri Inn. It was straight people, (mainly women)  who caused us to rethink our decision but we stuck it out and here we are!  We had one couple from Oregon stayed with us for a month. We were having the Steam Room installed and he accused us of building our own private playhouse!!!! Duh!!! We kept the old sign for many months before feeling secure enough to throw it out!!! There's a few more years in us yet!!

It's still H O T!!!!

Here we are, coping quite well with the heat. 104f (40c) at 10am this morning. The pool is perfect and the misting system is going strong. Step outside our complex and the heat hits you like walking into a stove!!! Not complaining. Only saying!!!

Since I last wrote, we have had the annual Deserters weekend which is always a lot of fun. This weekend we are hosting the Maximus Bear Pipe Social on Friday 20th 6pm-9pm. Anyone interest can find information on www.blackfireweekend.com Looking forward to a great weekend.

We have  Jim and Terry with us from San Francisco on their annual visit, very nice. Also a few weeks ago, Uncle Dick stayed for his second time this year, also from San Francisco. Hank & Larry from Guernville and bill from Omaha, NE, all regulars which we look forward to seeing. We are also looking forward to seeing (amongst others), Bud and Trip this weekend from Atlanta, FL

It's none stop fun, fun, fun here as you can imagine! LOL!!