Falling less than two-weeks since the latest government easing of lockdown restrictions and with a distinct staycation holiday boom, the town s hotels were fully-booked throughout the weekend. Tim Seward, chair of the BH Area Hospitality Association, said: Hotels were fully-booked and they were absolutely solid with 100 per-cent occupancy across all the hotels in town. If there were any hotels that had cancellations they were able to sell the rooms over again with 20-minutes to half-an-hour. We were at Air Festival levels across the town with good rates across the area as well. With the brilliant weather expected to continue well into the rest of half term, the booking-spree at the town s hotels shows no signs of slowing.
The hospitality sector was finally allowed to reopen earlier this month but with reports of people not turning up to their bookings and pubs losing out on hundreds of pounds, we ve caught up with our local landlords to see how they re getting on. Landlord of The London Tavern, Phil Hoyle said: It s been really busy since reopening, the community has come back and all of our regulars are back at the pub which is great. We re obviously following Covid rules which are a little stressful but everyone s doing their best. We re fairly full up for booking this weekend, we ve been lucky we haven t had many cancellations.