Here’s a great look at Accent Inns and the pacific Salmon Foundations Fish for the Future Program
Remember show your Fishing license the next time you stay at any Accent Inn in B.C. and help us preserve this most important species.
Posts Tagged ‘kelowna hotel’
25 Trees to represent 25 Years
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Mandy Farmer plants a BC Dogwood tree in honor of Accent Inns 25 years in business
Last week (June 30) Accent Inns celebrated 25 years in Business. What started as an exciting and unknown venture for founder Terry Farmer has become a 25 year success story. With Mandy Farmer at the helm of Accent Inns for the last few years, our BC owned hotel chain has focused even more on our our place in the environment. Accent Inns has always been a great supporter of local BC communities and for us, caring for our surroundings was just considered the right way to operate a business. From recycling bins to asking guests to re-use towels to save on laundry soap going into the drains, Accent Inns was an early adopter of such ideals. ...read more about 25 trees
Victoria Hotel Chain – Accent Inns celebrates 25 years in Business
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Terry Farmer founder of the BC hotel chain excited over Accent Inns awesome success
25 years of BC success adds up to good things for Accent Inns
June 30, 2011, Victoria, BC – Although the BC owned and operated hotel chain Accent Inns has undergone many changes during its 25 year history (including its name, ownership and décor), one thing that’s never wavered is the hotels’ values and community commitment.
“Accent Inns has always stood strong on a number of principles – and being a good employer has always taken the top spot,” said Mandy Farmer, CEO of Accent Inns. “While we pride ourselves on providing great value, cleanliness and customer service to our guests, we couldn’t do any of it if we didn’t have such great staff.”
A testament to Farmer’s dedication to her staff is Accent Inns’ low staff turnover – 48 per cent of the hotel line’s current employees have been with the company for 10 years or more. ...read more about Accent Inn 25 year anniversary
Bike to Work Week a Success!
Monday, June 6th, 2011
May 30 -June 5. A hearty congratulations go to all those participants in this years Bike to work week. A special thank you to the organizers and volunteers of the Victoria and Kelowna celebrations for allowing Accent Inns to be a supporter of your events.
Victoria BC’s event had over 3000 cyclist participate! The “editor” attended the Kelowna week ending finale. (...read more about Kelowna's great event)
BC’s Accent Inns Offer Park ‘n’ Cruise, Ski Packages
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Accent Inns welcomes AAA Members
Tony Mayer, AAA Washington- Whether you have folks trekking to Vancouver for an Alaska Cruise or piling into the 4×4 for a ski weekend in Inland BC, the Accent Inns family of hotels provide clean, comfortable Two-Diamond accommodations at reasonable cost. They’re pet-friendly and offer standard rooms as well as upgraded units with kitchenettes and full 1-bedroom suites.
Vancouver Airport Hotel offers stay n' cruise rates
Both of Accent Inns’ Vancouver locations in Burnaby and Richmond (Vancouver Airport hotel) offer the Stay Park ‘n’Cruise package – one pre-cruise night for two people in a standard room, taxes, round-trip shuttle service to the pier, plus up to 25 days’ parking while on the cruise – all for C$154 in May/June and C$166 from July through September!
Accent Inns Kelowna & Kamloops welcomes skiers
If you’re booking a spring getaway to BC’s big hills, Accent Inns is the perfect spot for ski bums to relax! Accent’s locations in Kelowna and Kamloops serve Big White, Silver Star and Sun Peaks Resorts with a Super Ski Getaway Package … the package includes one night for two people in a standard room PLUS lift tickets for two adults! The price is C$193 a night in Kelowna and C$198 a night in Kamloops (tax extra on these).
BONUS DISCOUNT: Should you want 1 night at Kelowna and 1 night at Kamloops, they’ll save an extra $20 off the 2nd night’s room rate!
In addition to these great rates, Travel agents can score great discounts now through April 30th! Kelowna, Victoria & Richmond, Burnaby and Kamloops offer very special agent appreciation discount room rates ($10 for an extra person – upgrade to a unit with kitchenette for $10 more, or a 1-bedroom suite for $30-50 more)
For information or to reserve any of these special rates, contact Accent Inns’ reservation department at 1-800-663-0298
Tony Mayer
Auto Travel Specialist
AAA Washington
Phone 425-646-2099 | FAX 425-646-2193
Charity Valentine’s Dance for Caleb
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Caleb Lanz – age 9 – diagnosed with DIPG
Charity Valentine’s Dance for Caleb
When: February 12th, 2011
7:00 pm – Midnight
Where: At Ellison Community Hall
Why…?
Caleb Lanz, born and raised in Kelowna, was diagnosed with DIPG, a fatal brain tumour, on January 28, 2010, and we need your support. As a community, we ask that local businesses come together to support Caleb and his family.
Thank you, in advance, to Ok DJ Service for generously donating their services!
Thank you to the amazing community of Kelowna for your generosity!
Your support gives hope to Caleb & his family! more about DIPG
Top 10 gift ideas from BC this year!
Friday, December 17th, 2010
Great gift ideas that even Santa would approve of
We’ve put together a little list of some of the top gift ideas Accent Inns staff recommend for this holiday season and our friends at Skewed & Reviewed have put together a great video showing their picks for video’s and movies, and we know all about both being that our Burnaby hotel is so close to Electronic Arts (EA), Bridge studios and Vancouver Film Studios. We are so lucky to live here in BC. Our access to gift items is incredible. So whether you live in Victoria, Kelowna, Vancouver, Kamloops, Prince George, Williams Lake, Bella Coola, Falkland, Fort St.John or anywhere else in Beautiful BC, you have access to some of the most awesome presents either in your own backyard or just a short distance away. ..read more on great Christmas gift ideas
Top 3 Ski Hills in BC’s interior
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Ski BC's interior with and Accent Inn ski package
2010/2011 Ski season has come to BC’s interior and here’s a little information about what we consider to be the top 3 ski hills in that area.
Well the white stuff has once again arrived in beautiful B.C. That means all the skiers and snowboarders can store their water skis and skateboards and head to the hills for some awesome downhill fun! This year the weather reports tell us it’s going to be a cold one so make sure and bundle up. Let’s take a look at three of our favourite mountains which are now open and ready. ..read about our top 3 ski hills in BC's interior
Profit Names Accent Inns CEO Mandy Farmer
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Mandy Farmer, President and CEO Accent Inns
For Immediate Release:
Accent Inns CEO, Mandy Farmer, recognized as one of Canada’s Top Female Entrepreneurs on the 2010 PROFIT W100 list
October 20, 2010, Victoria, BC – In two years, under the leadership of Mandy Farmer, Accent Inns has expanded its markets, greened more of its business process and retained staff far beyond industry standards. They have also had a profitable year while holding true to their company vision of investing back into the community, in light of a poor global economy, an accomplishment elevating Farmer into an elite group of Canada’s Top Women Entrepreneurs, as recognized by PROFIT magazine’s 12th annual W100 list.
Undercover Boss meet the not so Undercover Boss
Friday, October 1st, 2010
Terry Farmer, Accent Inns "not so undercover" boss
The current installment of CBS (shown on CTV) Undercover Boss TV Shows the President and CEO of Choice hotels going undercover. Well I just had to take this opportunity to talk about Accent Inns leadership. Long before Choice Hotels CEO dawned a uniform our own Terry Farmer was working hard at our Accent Inn BC hotels. The attached video shows Accent Inns founder and Chairman, Terry, more recently cleaning rooms and doing maintenance at both our Kamloops hotel and our Victoria hotel. This particular efforts was as a reward to our staff for the great fundraising effort everyone in the BC hotel chain did for the Power to Play event. Every Accent Inn is owned and operated by the Farmer family with Mandy Farmer being the current President and CEO. Terry and Mandy have never been afraid of getting in and supporting our team and they always make an effort to know each one of our staff (around the province) by name!
Friendliness and cleanliness have always been a priority and as you can see in the video, having fun is important to!
