As a bicyclist myself (even did Luik-Bastenaken-Luik, 230km, 4000m climb in 10 hours) I don't see any reason why I should be against bicyclist. When people are acting rude and keep on acting rude when you carefully point them on their behavior (not only noticed by me but by all my employees who spoke about it the rest of he week), that's another question. I will explain why: The table in question was 1 week old and I carefully asked not to place bicycles against it, this was answered by unfriendly almost aggressive faces and attitudes. After that I help the group putting their luggages in a room to keep them safe so that they could do other activities the rest of the day. I brought the group to the room and asked them friendly and clearly not to put the bicycles in the room to spare our furniture and carpets (we have plenty of places outside the rooms to put bicycles safe and dry). Despite that some of the cyclist still stalled their bicycles in the room. Apart from that these bicyclist put their sweaty cloths on furniture all around the swimming pool, furniture that other guests can and wanted to use as well. I tried to ignore all of it and try to explain to the woman who managed everything that we had negative experiences with previous cyclist groups but that we would do our bests to give them a good time (in the double century weekend for example we had a drunken group that were so aggressive that the two girls serving were to scared and left their work because of that). However only the first part of what I said was heard and apparently (as I hear on this site) translated as if cyclist were not welcome. To the man with with the Fiancé I would like to say: Swellendam is a country community where outsiders (especially from another country) are not accepted. The fact of the matter is that anyone is welcome but Swellendammers themselves don't want to come and replace that by gossip. Another fact is that the hygiene in the kitchen when we bought this place was so bad that we closed the restaurant for two months to install a brand new kitchen which is very clean up to this day.
