How is everyone? Anyone snowed in? Anyone assessing their site and thinking about remedial repairs, longer term changes to protect your sites from the more regular extreme weather conditions. We are at 900ft in North Wales little protection from the wind which is our main adversary. Over the past 10 years our units have grown considerably more weather resilient. Our first big storm was 23 Feb 2017 Storm Doris, we had guests in our bell tent, well until 7.30 am when they abandoned the tent. By 12.00 what was left of the tent was ratchet strapped to the central pole. We closed for 5 days, then a new bell tent arrived and erected. For the next few years whenever a named storm was forecast we ‘collapsed’ the bell tent and moved the furniture indoors. Our biggest issue was with Airbnb, if ‘we’ cancelled it would affect our Superhost status. In 2017 it wasn’t a problem Airbnb were super nice, as time went on they changed. We would contact them when a national weather warning was forecast and ask them to cancel bookings. We would send them links to the weather warnings and they still refused. Our eventual work round was to send them an email telling them that if the guests came all liabilities for their safety was on them. It worked.

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