Early Bird Discount takes off!

We have experienced quite a flurry of bookings over the last 2 weeks. It seems the 10% discount for booking early is really focusing minds! The clear bright cold weather has broken and so its a bit damp today but much milder. One of our recent bookings was from a family from Australia. It's great that the Internet has led to even small holiday businesses like ours being available online so that anybody, from anywhere, can book directly with us as owners. Here to a successful 2012!

Everywhere is looking very pretty this morning as the gardeners came last week. I opened the curtains and watched a beautiful grey squirrel digging for something tasty which he had previously hidden. As I had put wild bird seed out last week he may have buried sunflower seeds.

Yesterday, crossing Poleys bridge to take Tess for her walk, a beautiful dipper with a white chest was sitting on the side watching the fast running water beneath and for a moment I thought he wasn't going to bother to fly off as we approached. He eventually did but only after I had a brilliant look at him close up! It would have been great if I had a camera with me but I didn't.

Early bird Summer booking discount!

After a board meeting this morning (Maureen and I chatting over breakfast) it has been decided that we will offer our first ever early booking discount! Book (and pay the deposit!) before March 31st 2012 for a 10% discount on all full week holidays between May and September 2012. Great News! Tell your friends!

Short Break anyone?

A pretty grey and mizzley day here in Cornwall today. The last of the Christmas decorations have been packed away from the cottages (and our house) and the cottages made ready for the first guests of 2012. We offer a 4 night break for £199 until the end of March for 2 people in any of the cottages, including heating, electricity, bed linen, towels and a Cornish Cream Tea on arrival. Excellent value I would say!! Click through onto our colesent.co.uk website for more info and to read our "Guest Comments" section.

Camel Tales blog reborn?

As you can see the last post on this blog was nearly 4 years ago. I think I started rather over enthusiastically. I imagined running off witty, hilarious posts every week or two which frankly, was never going to happen. I did imagine getting beyond 2 posts but, well, you know, I failed miserably. So....it is with some trepidation that I now restart the blog with somewhat more prosaic ambitions. I'm saying "I" but really I mean "we" as Maureen is just as likely to be posting entries as I am. I guess we are hoping that by blogging about our cottages, mentioning special offers etc and alerting the bloggersphere to available weeks we will add to our marketing effort. As with most holiday related businesses in the South West, the recession has affected our business and anything we can do to get our cottages known about should help with our bookings!

So here we go................