Our yurt camp is open to anyone - and people of all ages have stayed with us over the past 6 years.  However one thing I have noticed is that the expectations of more mature, even elderly people is far higher than those who are younger. Perhaps mature people are more used to home comforts and hotel living. Its always difficult to make everyone 100% happy and recently one of our guests commented that glamping should be glamorous and didn't think his stay had been!  To be fair the elderly gentleman was given the holiday as a present so was not totally committed to staying in a yurt as he didnt really want to stay but felt he had to as the holiday was a gift.  He also stayed when the weather was unseasonably wet, however he was disappointed to find that he might have to occasionally queue to use the toilet and showers and felt that this was not at all what glamping should be - I am not sure how we can be expected to squeeze an en suite bathroom into the yurts!!!.  

We feel that as our yurts and the shepherds hut are full equipped with full sized comfortable beds, memory foam mattresses, all the bedding required, cushions, extra blankets and throws, lanterns, solar lighting and charging points, wood burning stove with logs fire lighters and kindling, fully equipped communal kitchen with tea and coffee, washing up liquid, soft toilet paper, ample private parking use of landline phone, along with a quiet and serene rural location all for less than the price per head of pitching a tent locally certainly makes our yurt camp very glamorous compared with a regular camp site.  However as this is the only comment of this nature in 6 years of operating then I have taken it all with a pinch of salt.

More mature people are always very welcome to stay here but must be prepared to occasionally queue for the loo and have to share the kitchen washing up facilities or book into one of the local hotels instead!

July is a wonderful month in Devon, the fields are full of a multitude of wild flowers, including clover and buttercups, pictured above in our meadow.  The lake field at Hemsford is left to grow long during the summer months with some pathways through to the other fields strategically mown to allow easy access from the farmhouse. The meadow is a haven for wildlife with many different species of butterfly, bees, grasshoppers, flies, dragonflies and damselflies, even the odd grass snake living in harmony alongside the yurt camp.  This week we have welcomed back guests from as far away as Japan - its always lovely when guests return as it is a real compliment for us.  The evenings have been clear and the skies dark and starlit.  Its been very warm for the past few days with the chance of thunderstorms over the next couple of days.  It certainly is thrilling to see the power of nature from inside a yurt.  The school holidays are almost upon us soon but we still have some availability.  There is something magical about sitting around a camp fire during the summer months toasting marshmallows listening to the owls and watching the bats at dusk.  With more guests arriving this weekend from Spain the weather is set fair - lovely!