Case Hotel Le Bonheur

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Hotel Le Bonheur case description case description Background Hotel le Bonheur has its roots in the beginning of the 20th century when it was a successful boutique hotel with nearly 100% ll-rates year around. Th e hotel managed to go through both World Wars and great depression without too much damage to the business, but it ran into troubles during the liberal 60’s due to its ultra-conserva tive policies of not allowing couples to dwell in the same room unless they were married. Di erent, some less glorious than other, episodes followed and one particularly worth mentioning took place in the 70’s and early 80’s. At that time the hotel was called Happiness Hotel and its permanent (and non-paying) residents included cheerful fellows by the names of Rowlf, Scooter, Rizzo, Pops, Crazy Harry, Lew Zealand, Swedish Chef, Sam the Eagle, to name a few. During this period Happiness Hotel was often also frequented by a little green frog called Kermit and a friendly bear called Fozzie. It was widely agreed there was no merrier place on the face of earth during that time. However, sooner than later it became obvious that the large proportion of non-paying residents combined with the dominant principle of paying by sneaking out in the middle of the night did not provide for sustained operations of the hotel. In addition, however unlikely it seemed at some point, several of the regular residents matured and entered the life married with children. Even the last resident left the ramshackle Happiness Hotel in the mid 80’s. From the mid 80’s the hotel was deserted until it was purchased (virtually it was given away) by Ronald Bump and his newly-wed wife in the late 90’s. Ronald had made millions in realestate development and he wanted to step away from the fast lane and enjoy life with his young wife. Ronald invested signi cant sums of money into the restoration of the

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