Editor’s notice: Each month, we wish 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 April 2023, Jeanne in France. This host started by remodeling a standard fishing boat right into a distinctive houseboat rental expertise. Since then the location has grown to incorporate tiny properties and enjoyable caravans for visitors to benefit from the pure panorama and personal lake on the property.
Tell us a bit about your self…
We are a small firm who’ve 3 forms of glamping lodging. Our locations are distinctive and totally different. We have a wide range of glamping leases; from houseboats to caravans and tiny properties. We got here into this enterprise about 15 years in the past as a result of we determined to construct a toue cabanée. Traditionally this was a sort of river fishing boat with a cabin or cabana for shelter. It was used, round 100 years in the past, for fishing and transporting items on the Loire River. As we’re situated on the Loire and have a lake on the property we couldn’t resist making the most of inspiration and the situation.
What attracted you to proudly owning a glamping property?
The concept of having the ability to share an actual expertise with our visitors. Nowadays, toue cabanée are used extra as houseboats than fishing boats. Being capable of give our visitors the chance to stay a novel expertise, is magnificent. Sharing this expertise with our visitors may be very particular. Our houseboats are excellently constructed and supply our visitors with a novel keep on the lake.
Every glamping web site has a particular story, may you inform us about yours?
My dad has had a rental boat firm for the final 40 years and has additionally been constructing the toue cabanée – La Loire from the 17 century – for the final 15 years. The houseboats are constructed for rental, not navigation. They have been impressed by the river and the lake round us and provides our visitors a particular expertise in the course of nature.
Can you inform us about your most memorable visitor expertise to this point?
It is troublesome to decide on just one! I’m deeply touched by the emotional expertise all our visitors have when being surrounded by nature. Although this isn’t one thing we consider in making the most of, it’s a nice privilege to supply the expertise to our visitors. Sharing of their pleasure to see animals like horses, donkeys, and so forth, which are across the property may be very particular.
If you possibly can have anyone keep at your lodging, who would it not be and why?
Anyone who desires to have the ability to join with and take pleasure in nature in a novel method.
Where is your splendid vacation vacation spot? Other than your glamping property after all!
I’d like to be crusing on a ship in the course of the ocean!
What are among the challenges you face and what have you ever discovered since opening?
We have discovered rather a lot in regards to the enterprise, however I’d say the best problem is to please everybody.
What do you’re keen on essentially the most about operating a glamping web site?
It’s new and totally different. It may be very interesting to supply folks with an expertise they will undergo in nature and luxuriate in!
What recommendation would you give to anybody trying to begin or enhance their very own glamping enterprise?
Hours could be lengthy, so don’t depend your hours. Work with ardour and from the guts!
Our group of hosts means every part to us right here at Glamping Hub, so we like to share their tales in our Host of the Month characteristic. If you’re keen on distinctive journey experiences and would like to expertise life on a houseboat that is the glamping web site for you. Try a enjoyable, colorfully embellished caravan close to Lyon or a tiny home on the Loire River. Don’t miss your alternative for a nature expertise in France like no different!
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