Camping fewer bookings this year than last

[tullah]

Anyone else finding their bookings are well down on last year? Expenses are the same spending a lot of time cutting grass an keeping ablutions clean etc.
I wonder if it's lack of spending power or they're all back to flying off.

 

[SilliamWhale]

One of my holiday lets that sleeps 10 plus is having a shocker. Holidays are ok but out of holidays can hardly get a booking.

And next year I may have a double or triple council tax to look forward to!

 

[Longneck]

I would think now Covid is all over everyone is back on easyJet to Spain?

 

[Limcrazy]

Holidays in UK are far too expensive to be stuck in the same crappy weather you can get at home. £100 a night to stay in a tent or caravan for a family to then have a go to a cinema, swimming pool, theme park in daytime.

 

[Uggman]

Anyone else finding their bookings are well down on last year? Expenses are the same spending a lot of time cutting grass an keeping ablutions clean etc.
I wonder if it's lack of spending power or they're all back to flying off.

The shepherds hut holiday is definitely being over done who wants to pay 150 pounds a night to stay in a tiny glorified wooden caravan in crappy weather in the UK saying that I'm paying 60 pounds anight for a mobile home near Scarborough

 

[Wesley]

Everyone appears to be going to Devon &/or Cornwall. To go most places we have to get on or cross the A303. We live just before the ‘303 turns into the A30. Went to pick my boy up from preschool just before 3.30 & traffic going south was nose to tail. No one could join at the crossroads. I ended up turning around & going the back roads. Came back the main road & it was still the same.

 

[Lakes Nash]

Lakes busy at weekends with day trippers, just about right through the week with the amount of holidaymakers , abroad is back on,

 

[Muddyroads]

Our Airbnb is doing as well as ever but we seem to be getting a lot more short stays - 1 or 2 nights each. More hassle but without them I think it would be a different story.

 

[ritchiekirkland]

Spoke to a m8 that runs a few sites west coast of Scotland , he said a lot quieter this year . He recons less money about .

 

[CORNFLAKE]

Our Airbnb is doing as well as ever but we seem to be getting a lot more short stays - 1 or 2 nights each. More hassle but without them I think it would be a different story.

What sort of occupancy % are you managing to get if you don’t mind me asking. Airbnb seem to think 50-60% is achievable. Thanks.

 

[Muddyroads]

What sort of occupancy % are you managing to get if you don’t mind me asking. Airbnb seem to think 50-60% is achievable. Thanks.

We’ve got 2 empty nights this month, but i were not busy in July there’s something very wrong. Just worked the average figures out for the first 6 months of the year and it works out to 72%. July and August are 92% average.

 

[CORNFLAKE]

Thanks for that. 70-90% seems fairly good to me. We’re tempted to do Airbnb on a small cottage that we have renovated. My wife is keen but I’m not sure if the hassle is worth it but we’d be glad of the income.

 

[bobk]

Didn't UK prices soar after covid , now it's payback time

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Our Airbnb is doing as well as ever but we seem to be getting a lot more short stays - 1 or 2 nights each. More hassle but without them I think it would be a different story.

I shut my airbnb so I could live in it while the farmhouse was renovated. I have had a few enquiries from past guests asking why they couldn’t find the listing.
@CORNFLAKE I had a minimum stay of two nights as washing and cleaning is still the same making input for a one night stay costly.
SS

 

[Lakes Nash]

Whilst post covid was on, we got permission for 8 pods on a piece of land, priced it all up and materials, pods etc all were going up at an alarming rate, glad we didn’t go ahead And do it, it would of taken years to recoup and extra work/hassle,

 

[copse]

Spoke to a neighbour the other day and said his campsite is a total waste of time this year.

 

[Wheatonrotty]

Our caravan site is definitely a bit quieter this year. Talking to a TUI stewardess on a flight back from Gran Canaria in June and they are busier than ever and leasing extra planes in to cope.

 

[tullah]

Whilst post covid was on, we got permission for 8 pods on a piece of land, priced it all up and materials, pods etc all were going up at an alarming rate, glad we didn’t go ahead And do it, it would of taken years to recoup and extra work/hassle,

Couple that with an oversupply and declining market too. Last two years were the best.

 

[Tamar]

People may decide to change their plans and have a staycation with the latest news.

Gatwick on strike and if you get to Europe you will burn................. 25 degree England with no hassles wins hands down for me.

 

[Nearly]

Holiday cottage bookings were a bit slow up to xmas but are filling in now.
Best move was to tell Sykes to put them up £100 a week and not to discount them so bloody quick.