The Southern Hotel
428 E Boston St
Covington, LA 70433
Telephone (844) 866-1907
Website www.southernhotel.com
Managed by Tandem Hospitality Group
Job Description
The Front Desk Agent is responsible for providing quality guest services that include registration and check-out, PBX operations, mail and message service. The Front Desk Agent must be accurate with daily accounting procedures. Essential hospitality standards must be used at all times: eye contact, smile, speak first, engage in polite conversation, use the guest surname!
Job Responsibilities
- Consistently provide high level of customer service
- Conduct pre-assignment of hotel rooms, which includes VIPS, repeat guests, all packages, and any special requests
- Check in and out hotel guests in a confident, professional and friendly manner
- Answer all phone calls promptly and knowledgeably, always ensuring complete and accurate information
- Complete all items on appropriate checklist by end of shift
- Follow established key control policy
- Ensure proper credit policies are followed and verify credit limit report
- Submit all lost & found articles accompanied by a completed lost & found report
- Knowledgeable of immediate area, services, attractions, and events and assist with Concierge services
- Knowledgeable of fire and emergency procedures
- Open, secure, and balance out daily shift bank which involves counting and verifying cash, check, and credit card transactions occurring while on duty
- Monitor room availability throughout the day
- Review daily the selling status of the hotel using yield management system
- Performs all other duties as directed by immediate supervisor
- Contact with other departments to ensure that hotel services are coordinated to provide the best in guest satisfaction
- Performs other duties as assigned, requested or deemed necessary by management
Job Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent; and six months to one-year related experience and/or training
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret procedure manuals
- Ability to solve practical problems and to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
- Ability to operate the Property Management System, capture email, and use the PBX system. Must always be accountable for balancing the daily shift bank and maintain organization and demonstrate quality service
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and communicate
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
The Southern Hotel
Hotel with 42 Rooms
The Southern Hotel is located in the center of charming Covington, Louisiana.
In the quaint town of Covington, Louisiana, located just across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, the Southern Hotel’s vaunted history of hospitality began in 1907. Established as a physical and spiritual retreat where visitors would re-energize amidst the area’s cool breezes, piney woods and mineral springs, the hotel hosted guests for more than 50 years.
From its original opening on June 1, 1907 until the 1960s when it ceased operation as a hotel, the Southern Hotel was an integral part of the Covington community. It hosted Sweet Sixteen parties, wedding receptions, anniversary dinners, and was a favorite for honeymooners. During the fifty years in which the building housed other businesses and then stood vacant for a time, it was still, in the collective memory of the town of Covington, the old hotel.
When the hotel’s new owners purchased the property in 2011, they were motivated by a desire to return the building to a modern interpretation of what it once was. After a two-year meticulous renovation and restoration, the hotel reopened on June 1, 2014, 107 years to the date from its original opening. The lobby of the hotel is now affectionately described as “Covington’s living room,” and is once again a beloved gathering place. From the furniture in the guest rooms to the artwork in the common areas, the hotel honors Covington’s legacy as an artists’ community by showcasing the work of many local artists; its two suites are named after Walker Percy, who was from Covington, and Thomas Sully, a Louisiana architect; and its meeting room is the Olympia Room, named after the local fifty-year-old Mardi Gras Krewe, and it displays the Krewe’s artifacts and memorabilia for the public to see.
The hotel's restaurant, The Gloriette, is led by Chef Steven Marsella and features local and French-inspired cuisine, all in the warm and vibrant environment of the newly designed space.
A family-owned business, the hotel is committed to elevating the art of hospitality and providing guests with an experience that is rooted in the past, connected to the community around it, and celebrating all of the elements of a good life—good food and drink, comfort and communion, creativity and culture.