Editor’s notice: Each month, we wish to introduce considered one of our great 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 December 2022; Nancy and Bert from Connecticut. This internet hosting couple began with the thought of making a secluded nature retreat, the place company can come and fully disconnect from the hustle and bustle of on a regular basis life. Surrounded by 100 acres of unspoiled forest, company can absorb nature and depart feeling rejuvenated.
Tell us a bit about your self…
Nancy has been a potter and harpist for over 30 years, educated at Rhode Island College in Art Studio. In 2018 she began a brand new profession within the vacation rental enterprise by renting our fully non-public 144 sq ft octagonal tiny dwelling subsequent to a brook on 100 acres of forest with a pond, waterfall, marsh, and mountaineering 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 bushes 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 stress-free 100-acre forested property and brook with others to allow them to profit from this lovely area. So many individuals on this planet at the moment want a protected place the place they will go to chill out, unwind and get again in contact with nature. Our forest with its babbling Goldmine brook is a superb place to do that.
Every glamping web site has a particular story, may 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 part 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 houses. Our glamping retreat has a complete of three tiny houses on 100 acres of forest. We didn’t need to overbuild as we wished to go away the land as pristine as attainable and provides company loads of privateness. It is a superb place to chill out and absorb nature, hike, mushroom hunt, write, learn, fish, hen and animal watch, meditate, create artwork or music, {photograph}, snowshoe, cross nation ski, and star gaze as there may be little mild air pollution, on this fully non-public woodland setting.
What are a number of the challenges you face and what have you ever realized since opening?
Running electrical energy to every of the tiny houses 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 keep in mind being a bit nervous and hoped I had considered every part a visitor would possibly want. Back then we had been utilizing automotive batteries with an inverter for electrical energy! Luckily the company had been joyful and every part 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 dwelling, which just like the octagon is true subsequent to the brook. Our company have performed an enormous function too with considerate strategies.
Can you inform us about your most memorable visitor expertise up to now?
All of our company are very particular to us and it will be inconceivable to single one out. We have had over 2000 company 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 need to expertise what we’ve got to supply.
If you would have anyone keep at your lodging, who wouldn’t it be and why?
Again, it will be laborious to single anybody out. Any and all kinds of individuals are welcome right here. We actually get pleasure from it and discover it so rewarding when individuals come right here for nature and depart feeling rejuvenated.
Where is your excellent vacation vacation spot? Other than your glamping property in fact!
Glacier National Park. We additionally plan to go to Iceland and have traveled extensively all over the world.
What do you’re keen on essentially the most about operating a glamping web site?
The alternative to satisfy 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?
Make certain you’re a buyer service-oriented particular person. Listen to your clients. They typically give great recommendation. Always be keen and in a position to meet a buyer’s wants and requests. Basically, it’s essential to like individuals. For me that’s straightforward. Since I by no means had youngsters, I discover myself doting on my clients. So a lot of them really feel like household!
Our group 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. If it’s essential to disconnect and need to be surrounded by nature don’t miss a keep at this improbable tree home in Connecticut. Feel like one of many household, once you keep on this cozy tiny dwelling. Or e book this distinctive octagonal tiny dwelling with the sounds of the brook lulling you to sleep.
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