A Gwynedd woman has received a long-service award and been praised for her "hard work and dedication" as a housekeeper at Llanberis’s Royal Victoria Hotel in Snowdonia.
Christine Kisalu – who moved to the area in 1979 after her family fled Idi Amin’s Uganda – started at the hotel straight from school. During her 34-years of service, she is estimated to have cleaned an astonishing 100,000 rooms.
The 54-year-old was presented with a certificate from Royal Victoria’s manager Steve Lee, along with three other long-serving members of staff, at a special event in their honour.
Mr Lee said: “Christine knows the hotel top to bottom, and inside out. She is always extremely conscientious. There’s probably not an inch of the place that has escaped her duster.
“We have nothing but praise for all her hard work and dedication. We are proud to have her as a work colleague and pleased to have this opportunity to say a big thank you for her many years of service.”
Christine, who lives with one of her five sisters, Manon, in Llanberis, spent much of her early life in Kampala in Uganda until the family returned to Gwynedd, where her mother was born and raised.
When not at work Christine likes going shopping with friends, doing word search puzzles and watching TV soaps.
Members of staff who also received long service awards are: Rheon Roberts, Megan Thomas, and Jonathan Fisher.
The Royal Victoria Hotel lies at the foot of Snowdon, between two lakes, Llyn Padarn and Llyn Peris, in 30 acres of gardens and just steps from the Snowdon Mountain Railway.
The 104-room three-star hotel, which recently underwent a £1m refurbishment, was built in 1830 and named after Queen Victoria whose family stayed there in 1832.
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