Lay My Hat

Can anyone tell me which are the most popular holiday 'lets' as in way of in the countryside 'out in the sticks' or in town and villages for sleeping 10 to 12 people.

Difficult to answer unless one has a number of properties of different sizes in different locations...

Mine sleeps 3 with one single and one double bedroom.... I would have preferred 2 double bedrooms but couldn't afford it..

Sleeps 3 is fairly unusual and probably not what would be recommended but seems to have worked for me..

English Country Cottages suggested that I was likely to get 23- 28 weeks booked a year in my location ..

Once I advertised independently I got 40 weeks!

That's very good lettings for one year Rosebud, hope am as luck in 2017,

A belated reply.

We find the most popular niche in Herefordshire and S Shropshire and area is sleep 10. Ideally at least 2 en suites taking pets.

But since the new year a little life has returned to the sleep 2 market which has suffered from over-supply. We suspect it is partly due to seeing abroad as a bit more dangerous than it used to be... but it might only be a blip.

Larger lets are less weather dependent, demand is less flexible and supply, although rising, has not matched the increase in supply of smaller ones. In addition, more guests are joining groups.

A sleep 10 booking can easily remove 5 sleep 2 bookings although the usual pattern is to remove two or three with the remainder being a family.