Lay My Hat

Thanks all for your additional / detailed comments. The website is now live, which I think will sort some if not all of the cookies issue. We have also implemented some of the corrections / typos and will change more when we gain control of it. It's been a huge effort to get to this point, but we ar...

Thanks for the detailed feedback, and glad you like the conversions!. Yes, we originally were thinking of aiming for young family market as well, but as we are still bedding in the thought was to restrict this for the moment - similarly for allowing dogs, there's too much bare earth round the back w...

Hi all We are just setting up ready to accept guests from 17th May and are very close with our website set up . It's mostly there, and you can access it by https://windmillholidaylets.co.uk/ and use the login 'horses' (the latter is because it's still in draft format, and will obviously be removed i...

Hi all. We're shortly to be going live (in a couple of weeks) and while we think our main market is for holidays, we're not ruling out the possibility of business stays - we're near Cambridge so not so much the coastal attraction, but there are plenty of businesses in the area that might need visiti...

Hi there. A quick question regarding business rates. Our holiday lets, shortly to be going live, are part of the main property where we also live and are currently paying the usual council tax. Once we get going with the holiday lets, does anyone know if I have to register for business rates, and th...

Thanks all TBH that's fair advice. As we are on site and have time to devote to the management side of things, we should reverse the logic of our thinking. In other words, do it ourselves for the first year and see how that works, and add more help with marketing if we need it. That way we are in co...

Hi there everyone We're new to the holiday let business and are in the process of converting an old stable block on our property to 3 holiday let units (mostly suited to couples, or 2 + child). I've been greatly impressed by the amount of support offered by more experienced hosts on such a wide vari...