Mr Turner said he was feeling apprehensive about the reopening. It s always slightly apprehensive when investing vast amounts of money and you re not quite sure what s going to happen. But, I think that people are forgiving, they understand that we re in Great Britain and the weather can be challenging. The positive is that we ve got something like 9,000 bookings across our portfolio for the last 18 days of April, which is brilliant.
Nick Attfield, director of properties at Southwold-based brewery and pub chain Adnams, said the firm had also invested in a tepee as well beach huts to form covered outside space at their pubs.
Mr Turner said he was feeling apprehensive about the reopening. It s always slightly apprehensive when investing vast amounts of money and you re not quite sure what s going to happen. But, I think that people are forgiving, they understand that we re in Great Britain and the weather can be challenging. The positive is that we ve got something like 9,000 bookings across our portfolio for the last 18 days of April, which is brilliant.
Nick Attfield, director of properties at Southwold-based brewery and pub chain Adnams, said the firm had also invested in a tepee as well beach huts to form covered outside space at their pubs.
Paul Milsom.
- Credit: MILSOM HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
Paul Milsom, who runs a chain of hotels throughout Suffolk and north Essex, said: We ve seen a significant uptick in bookings since the announcement. I think the staycation market is going to be massively strong this year. People are chomping at the bit to come to hotels. We expect to have a very high occupancy rate. if you look back to when we could open last year we had occupancy rates of 95% and we re expecting it to be like that again.
Nick Attfield, director of properties at Adnams
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