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The Glades Motel upgrades
Plans for upgrading The Glades Motel at Woy Woy are under way after it came under new ownership six weeks ago.
The motel, which overlooks Everglades golf course, currently has three and half-star rating but with renovations the new owners are looking to push it up to four stars.
They plan to give the motel a beach-side theme, upgrading the paint work, furnishings and recreation facilities of the hotel.
A new barbecue area is planned as well as gardens, a spa, a games room, new driveway and some refurbishing of the rooms.
The new owners of the motel are locals: Josie Goodwin, a hairdresser in Woy Woy for 30 years and husband Noel Goodwin of Goodwin Car Repairs in Woy Woy.
They are enthusiastic about the planned renovations to the motel.
"When we got here everything was just brown. I hate brown," Josie Goodwin said.
"The motel had a happy colonial-style, forest-type theme.
"We want to make the motel more beach-side, make it more resort style and tourist style," she said.
As for the Spike Milligan International Wing, Josie Goodwin has not yet decided its fate.
"I'm not going to promote it," she said.
The Goodwins bought the motel earlier this year after deciding it was time for a change.
"Instead of having a mid-life crisis, I decided to buy a motel," Josie Goodwin said.
"My parents had motel in Yass many years ago and I knew I could run a motel," she said.
After looking up and down the NSW Coast, the Goodwins decided to stay in the Peninsula area to be close to family and friends.
"Mum and Dad still live here.
"My son just started uni this year.
"I've got two other sons in the area," she said.
Business for the new owners has been good and already they have spotted trends.
"We've only been here six weeks, but if you have a busy weekend you will have a quiet week.
"If you have a busy week, you will have a quiet weekend," she said.
"The motel doesn't have a lot of opposition.
"When you look at Coffs Harbour or Port Macquarie, there's hundreds of motels.
"What I do get a lot of, and this surprises me, is people who come out looking for real estate.
"They stay here while they are looking for it.
"We get a lot of workmen too at the moment - people doing shops up, the workmen who did Subway stayed here and the OTIS people doing lifts," she said.
Alison Branley, August16