Editor’s be aware: Every month, we prefer to introduce certainly one of our fantastic Glamping Hub hosts and ask what impressed them to create a glamping web site. This month, we’re showcasing Glamping Hub’s Host of the Month for October 2022, Lisa from New Zealand. This host and her comfortable group have a ardour to create nice experiences for visitors at Lisa’s Waikanae North Island glamping retreat.
Inform us a bit about your self…
I’m initially from the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand, I’ve lived in London, the Bahamas whereas working for Elle MacPherson for 2 years, and in Austin, Texas. Journey and occasion administration are a few of my passions. I additionally conduct formal ceremonies, comparable to weddings so I’m a romantic at coronary heart. I misplaced my husband tragically and I wanted to re-create my life by re-inventing myself utilizing what I had discovered and changing into unbiased.
What attracted you to proudly owning a glamping property?
My ardour is creating nice experiences for folks. I wished to create just a little spot with a contact of the particular locations I’ve lived, visited, and that I maintain near my coronary heart. I wished to share this expertise with others. I had a unbelievable expertise in India, when volunteering out within the desert and thought this is able to be cool to recreate again in New Zealand.
Each glamping web site has a particular story, may you inform us about yours?
My sister and I created my glamping web site from an empty paddock. The land was gifted to me by my sister, who I stay with on the property. We’re just about an all-woman group of sisters, nieces, shut girlfriends, and some males who had been dragged in for the construct and landscaping. Just under the glamping web site, now we have a phenomenal glass chapel constructed by my sister and her son. We’re a one-stop store for marriage and honeymoon holidays, making it a really perfect romantic spot!
What are a few of the challenges you face and what have you ever discovered since opening?
I traded my excessive heels and work garments from a job within the concrete jungle for gumboots, so this was a BIG studying curve for me. Studying about compost bathrooms, plumbing, water tanks, electrical energy, pest management, and the constructing was powerful at instances and costly when errors had been made. Attempting to construct one thing from a imaginative and prescient board; not a plan on paper was difficult or some would say loopy! There was a little bit of eye-rolling from my contractors! My imaginative and prescient board was my plan however I’ve discovered a lot since then.
The problem is carrying many hats – cleaner, marketer, gardener, inventive director, reserving agent, buy officer, IT, accountant, and host. It’s a juggle however completely price it. Between my sister, my First Officer, and myself we will just about sort out most issues once they come up – sisters doing it for ourselves.
I’ve discovered to be extra affected person, bodily stronger, and fewer panicked when there may be an odd hiccup. I’ve additionally discovered to tackle suggestions from folks, and enhance as we go alongside – you’ll be able to’t simply assume, sit again and put your toes up. I’m continuously including, tweaking, creating, and altering issues round as I do have a number of repeat visitors, which is nice!
How was your first time internet hosting?
I used to be nervous. Nonetheless, it was two attractive ladies my sister married in her chapel they usually had been my first visitors and newlyweds. We labored across the clock to complete the location on time for his or her wedding ceremony. They’d one of the best evening and every part went completely.
Are you able to inform us about your most memorable visitor expertise thus far?
Now we have a number of memorable moments, however our favourite visitor experiences are from proposals at our web site, looking over an incredible sundown and panorama. The most effective half to return from that is officiating the ceremony when the visitors come again and get married within the chapel.
Should you may have anyone keep at your lodging, who would it not be and why?
Elle Macpherson – I’d love to point out her what I’ve carried out, how I used to be impressed by her lovely home within the Bahamas, and the expertise of what I discovered working for her. I had the privilege of assembly and internet hosting some very well-known folks in Ibiza and the Bahamas. From these experiences, the principle issues I discovered had been the significance of the finer particulars, internet hosting at a excessive stage, being open to suggestions, and by no means giving up.
The place is your perfect vacation vacation spot? Apart from your glamping property after all!
Tulum, Mexico — it has such an incredible ambiance! The persons are SO inventive. Each step you soak up any of the eating places, bars, spas, or outfitters is sort of a photoshoot for an Elle Décor journal. It’s Boho which I really like and discover very inspiring. I miss it. I’ve recreated my out of doors bar space to resemble the bars in Tulum and different touches like my hammocks, pots, and ornaments. A minimum of I can channel that till we will get again there quickly.
What do you like essentially the most about operating a glamping web site?
Working for myself with my First Officer, and shut girlfriend, and having the pliability to take break day once I want it. It’s like making a particular occasion daily for those who have in all probability escaped from stress, children, and work. We really feel proud. It all the time seems to be wonderful when now we have completed setting every part up from the pizza oven, out of doors baths, out of doors hearth pit, and naturally the within of the tent with flowers, welcome notes, and do-it-yourself pizza dough and sauce. I by no means get uninterested in it. It’s such as you put power into every part you contact. It’s a really grounding expertise and fantastic for the soul!
What recommendation would you give to anybody seeking to begin or enhance their very own glamping enterprise?
Discover one thing that’s distinctive. There are numerous glamping websites round. Go the additional mile with the finer particulars and guarantee you might have nice techniques in place that make operating your glamping web site simpler. Work smarter not tougher. Don’t be afraid to ask others which might be consultants of their area, you’ll be able to’t be anticipated to know every part.
Our neighborhood of hosts means every part to us right here at Glamping Hub, which is why we like to share their tales in our Host of the Month characteristic. Should you’re on the lookout for a Dreamy Safari Tent Rental in Waikanae, for an thrilling weekend getaway in North Island, New Zealand. Ebook Lisa’s nice lodging.
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