Editor’s word: Every month, we prefer to introduce certainly one of our great Glamping Hub hosts and ask what impressed them to create a glamping website. This month, we’re showcasing Glamping Hub’s Host of the Month for December 2022; Nancy and Bert from Connecticut. This internet hosting couple began with the thought of making a secluded nature retreat, the place visitors can come and utterly disconnect from the hustle and bustle of on a regular basis life. Surrounded by 100 acres of unspoiled forest, visitors can absorb nature and depart feeling rejuvenated.
Inform us a bit about your self…
Nancy has been a potter and harpist for over 30 years, educated at Rhode Island School in Artwork Studio. In 2018 she began a brand new profession within the vacation rental enterprise by renting our utterly non-public 144 sq ft octagonal tiny residence subsequent to a brook on 100 acres of forest with a pond, waterfall, marsh, and mountain climbing trails. She later added a treehouse and one other tiny home. Nancy continues to promote pottery from her studio and likewise makes Shagbark syrup from the Shagbark timber within the woods and distinctive jewellery from wooden and semi-precious stones.
What attracted you to proudly owning a glamping property?
Sharing our peaceable and really enjoyable 100-acre forested property and brook with others to allow them to profit from this lovely house. So many individuals on the earth at the moment want a protected place the place they will go to loosen up, unwind and get again in contact with nature. Our forest with its babbling Goldmine brook is a superb place to do that.
Each glamping website has a particular story, might you inform us about yours?
My grandfather purchased this land within the Nineteen Fifties with plans to make a few of it right into a residential space. He and my father, Buck, had been housebuilders. They did every thing from basis to cabinetry. They constructed on 50 acres and left the remaining 50 acres of brook and forest pure and untouched. In 2007 my father gave us six acres and my husband and I constructed a house right here. In 2016 we purchased 50 acres from him and determined to construct some small-footprint tiny properties. Our glamping retreat has a complete of three tiny properties on 100 acres of forest. We didn’t wish to overbuild as we wished to go away the land as pristine as doable and provides visitors loads of privateness. It’s a great spot to loosen up and absorb nature, hike, mushroom hunt, write, learn, fish, fowl and animal watch, meditate, create artwork or music, {photograph}, snowshoe, cross nation ski, and star gaze as there’s little gentle air pollution, on this utterly non-public woodland setting.
What are a few of the challenges you face and what have you ever discovered since opening?
Operating electrical energy to every of the tiny properties by means of some difficult rocky terrain and sustaining the paths throughout all seasons as we’re open year-round. It makes for good train!
How was your first time internet hosting?
We rented out the octagonal tiny home in August 2018. I bear in mind being a bit nervous and hoped I had considered every thing a visitor would possibly want. Again then we had been utilizing automobile batteries with an inverter for electrical energy! Fortunately the visitors had been glad and every thing went easily. After doing that for about 9 months and receiving very constructive suggestions, we determined to construct a tree home. This time we ran electrical energy to it and likewise put electrical energy within the octagon. After having extra good suggestions with the tree home we determined to construct our final place, a secluded tiny residence, which just like the octagon is correct subsequent to the brook. Our visitors have performed a giant position too with considerate options.
Are you able to inform us about your most memorable visitor expertise so far?
All of our visitors are very particular to us and it will be unattainable to single one out. We now have had over 2000 visitors keep in simply over three years and over sixty are repeat clients. The individuals who come listed here are normally nature oriented. We get lots of people from the large cities too who wish to expertise what we have now to supply.
If you happen to might have anyone keep at your lodging, who would it not be and why?
Once more, it will be laborious to single anybody out. Any and all sorts of individuals are welcome right here. We actually take pleasure in it and discover it so rewarding when individuals come right here for nature and depart feeling rejuvenated.
The place is your superb vacation vacation spot? Apart from your glamping property after all!
Glacier Nationwide Park. We additionally plan to go to Iceland and have traveled extensively world wide.
What do you like essentially the most about operating a glamping website?
The chance to fulfill great and fascinating individuals who respect and like to be in nature.
What recommendation would you give to anybody seeking to begin or enhance their very own glamping enterprise?
Ensure you are a buyer service-oriented particular person. Hearken to your clients. They usually give great recommendation. At all times be prepared and capable of meet a buyer’s wants and requests. Mainly, that you must like individuals. For me that’s simple. Since I by no means had youngsters, I discover myself doting on my clients. So lots of them really feel like household!
Our group of hosts means every thing to us right here at Glamping Hub, which is why we like to share their tales in our Host of the Month characteristic. If that you must disconnect and wish to be surrounded by nature don’t miss a keep at this incredible tree home in Connecticut. Really feel like one of many household, if you keep on this cozy tiny residence. Or e-book this distinctive octagonal tiny residence with the sounds of the brook lulling you to sleep.
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