Client notes
Evidence from specific books, not star widgets
These remarks name the reading that was commissioned and the constraint that mattered. They are not marketplace scores.
They asked for three years of our guesthouse book, not a spreadsheet of 'market trends'. The April gap we blamed on rain turned out to be a school-holiday mismatch with the Armenian coaches we kept expecting.
Useful on Batumi weekends. Less useful on our one-off hunting lodge, which barely had twelve stays to judge. They said as much in the first call, which I appreciated even if I still paid for a thinner note than I hoped.
The corridor comparison stopped us advertising Svaneti and Kazbegi as interchangeable 'mountain product' in October. Road reality and stay length were never the same, and our cancellation notes already knew it.
I wanted a single chart I could pin in reception. What arrived was a bound reading with caveats in the margins. Reception still uses the month tabs. I use the caveats when a partner asks why we will not open a fourth floor in August.
A longer note: the April coaches that never came
A Stepantsminda guesthouse commissioned a seasonality briefing after three Aprils of blaming rain. The extract showed clusters of tentative Armenian coach names that dissolved in the same week every year, just after a school-holiday window that did not match the Georgian calendar the family had pinned in reception.
The briefing did not add rooms. It changed when they stopped holding the large table. The mild complaint from another lodge on this page still stands: if the book is thin, the pages will be thin. We would rather send you home with that sentence than invent occupancy you did not earn.