second week done!

After another day of typing up reservations, I actually started to enjoy putting them into the computer. Its at that point of a new job when you can finally do something on your own and its correct, so of course its even more fun to do. The reservations are neat to see too, because you can get a little snippet of people coming to the hotel. You can see who's here to celebrate a honeymoon, anniversary, birthday, or just plain business trip (etc). Now that I'm more familiar with the hotel and its room packages, I can picture what each reservation should hopefully experience (the type of room, restaurant coupons, golf coupons, champagne, etc).

After finishing up working with Penny and the reservations and phone-operator team, I went and changed to work at Cafe Hanalei. Tonight was the big sea food buffet and it looked fabulous. This is the first night that I had seen it all in person, so of course I had to scope it out. It included a lot and I wish I can remember all the cool descriptions that went along with it but basically it included grilled marlin, ahi, beef sirloin, chicken skewers, and vegetables. Also a variety of specialty salads, fresh vegetables, sushi/sashimi, Hawaiian sausage, crab, shrimp, and of course a variety of desserts. I didn't get to look at all of them but they had an awesome chocolate fondue table with strawberries, pineapple, cantaloupe, cake, and marshmallows (which I had to pass by every time I had to seat a guest . . . talk about torture). The set up was really pretty too with ice sculptures and chocolate statues including of course the usual tropical flowers. The employees at the cafe are really friendly too, so I'm glad I have the opportunity to meet some more people especially outside of the office.

They wanted me to work Saturday and Sunday but I said I wanted at least one complete day off this weekend so they gave me Saturday off. Tomorrow I'm hoping to go for a hike and then lay at the beach to catch a little more sun. There's supposed to be a great secluded beach close by, so I'll have to check it out.

Next week I'll be working with Sales and should be very interesting. I always wondered what the Sales department in a hotel does so it will be a great opportunity for me to see it. Also I want to kind of poke around and try to figure out why Princeville doesn't try to capitalize more on the international market, because they used to but now they mostly focus on the US. Gotta love learning!