TRAVEL | Top 10 Things Glamping Guests Forget To Take Home With Them

August 1, 2019 Shell Robshaw-Bryan

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As the summer holiday season gets into full swing, a Cotswolds based boutique glamping retreat has compiled a list of the top ten things guests always forget to take home with them at the end of their holiday.

Bikes and engagement rings are just a few of the things they return to guests on a regular basis, but are you guilty of leaving behind any of the following?

Top 10 Things Glamping Guests Forget To Take Home With Them

Winchcombe Farm Holidays in Upper Tysoe in Warwickshire claim to spend about £50 to £75 per month posting back property that guests leave behind after staying in one of their luxury lodges or tree house.

So before you pack your bags to head home from your glamping holiday this year, owners Jo Carroll and Steve Taylor recommend that you double check behind doors and beside the hot tubs, as these are the places where forgotten belongings are most commonly found.

Here are the top 10 things glamping guests forget to take home with them…

10. Bikes

Unbelievably, they’ve now had to reacquaint 4 bikes with their owners, all of which they managed to get hold of by phone before they reached home. Jo said: “Guests leave them on the outside decks and forget to load them into their car. We’ve had to ring several people now and ask them to turn round and come back to collect their bicycle!

9. Children’s Comforters

Jo explained that these often get left in beds and often have calls from frantic parents asking for them to be returned by next day delivery, fearing their child will never sleep again until they are reunited with their bedtime buddy.

8. Sun Hats & Sun Glasses

Normally found in the hammocks in the garden after lazy afternoons basking in the sunshine.

7. Slippers

These are nearly always recovered from underneath beds, particular in our geodesic stargazing domes which have circular beds in for watching the night sky in comfort.

6. Wellies

Jo explained that all their lodges have outside boot racks for walking shoes and wellies, as many of their guests ramble around the surrounding Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and guests just forget to pick them up on departure.

5. Jewellery

“Lots of people remove jewellery when they get into their hot tub. We’ve returned wedding and engagement rings, as well as lockets containing ashes and pendants” continued Jo.

4. Flip Flops

These tend to get taken off by hot tubs and forgotten about.

3. Alcohol

Wine left in the wine fridges and vodka in the freezers are the most common. “Sadly these are difficult to post, so we ‘dispose’ of them ‘safely’ hiccupped Steve.

2. Coats

These are nearly always hung on the back of doors and forgotten about.

1. Phone Chargers

Jo said: “I can’t even begin to count the number of phone chargers I’ve posted back to guests.”

Jo and Steve have introduced a departure checklist to help guests go home with everything they arrived with; “this includes ‘children’ just in case!” said Jo.

Find out more about Winchcombe Farm Holidays.

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Shell loves all things travel and outdoors and is a nature-loving, comfy-camping kinda girl. Shell started the Camping with Style blog after a serious snowboarding accident which left her with a broken back. Despite this she used the outdoors and healing power of nature to aid her recovery and she continues to spend time outdoors whenever she can.

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