This is not the intention, however, largely thanks to COVID-19 – 2020 has become the year of the country’s departure and social estrangement in a properly sublime way. In the UK, the leading British glamping specialist is Canopy and Stars.
“We started an old farm in 2010 with seven seats,” says one spokesman. “We have helped over 200,000 guests. Until the coronavirus arrived, Canopy-Stars’ reserves in 2020 increased by 30% since the 2019 figures, driven by a trend towards remnants and appetite for a wild holiday. Reservations, of course, slowed the shutdown, however, once the government announced the reduction of travel restrictions, we saw a massive increase in demand. We recorded a record number of bookings in June 2021. »
The term glamping covers a multitude of accommodation options, adding tree houses, log cabins, changed boxes and shepherd’s huts, but especially tents, are tipis, bells and yurts.
Rural landowners are locating some other source of income through the housing of a few well-located tents on their land. A new opening this year, Enchanted Glamping uses the Alexander House estate in Perthshire, near Gleneagles. You can opt for yurts and a changed old box. No contact check-in, en suite bathrooms, wood-burning hot tubs and views of the Ochil hills are available. Rates start at 150 euros per night.
On a 200-acre farm in west Wales on the Teifi River, “fforest” is an attractive hybrid of the Welsh farm and Japanese forest refuge. Japanese Onsen domes feature hardwood floors, futon bedding and recessed bathtubs. Amid the combination of Japanese aesthetic rigor and Welsh craftsmanship, the estate is also what the estate considers the smallest pub in Wales. And Bwythn, a 200-year-old farmer’s space with beers and go-and-go gins that Fforest created with local manufacturers, as well as pizzas made from tipis and coffees.
A hotel organization has also brought a riff about the glamping trend of genuine goods. As a concept, Hoxton Hotels is decidedly urban, with 3 outposts in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Chicago and Portland. However, the logo is from the Ennismore Group, owner of Gleneagles and bought Eynsham Hall in central Oxfordshire Cotswolds in 2018.
This summer, Eynsham, while the hotel is being renovated, has become the base of Camp Hox. The hotel’s gardens now have 12 lotus tents and come with adequate beds, bedding and interior floors (inspired by some other key trend from 2020). Sharan Pasricha, CEO of Ennismore, says: “Camp Hox is a concept that has been thought about for years, but it never makes as much sense as it is today.”
The camp is light, with breakfast delivered in the morning, a full refrigerator of wine, beer and snacks on the loose, and a Graham’s harbor and tonic bar on site (which is another uptrend). A great touch for all those who are more ambivalent about some more prosaicas facets of the camp is that the staff is at your disposal to take your dishes with you. The value starts at 370 euros for 3 nights, adding one at one of the Hoxton hotels in London.
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