Their invitation to "call back nearer the time and we might be able to take you" is a thinly veiled way of saying "if we haven't had a better offer, and you're getting desperate, we'll take your money after all, rather than be stuck with an unlet room".
This style of "you'll have had your tea?" marketing is hardly conducive to the increased occupancy they say they need.
JAMES L SHEARER
Cargilfield View
Edinburgh