Waders Lookout

21/01/2024

Happy Sunday morning and Happy New Year to you all.
Please read our latest newsletter with some very important news about the future of Waders Lookout. We hope to welcome many of you this year xx
This is available in PDF format so if anyone wants it sent via email (can't read it for eg) please pop us a message.

01/12/2023

Hello
It’s been a few months since our last post - we have all been super busy, apologies x
More on that soon as the newsletter is due anytime now.
It’s just a quick check in to say we have just opened 2024 diary and we hope to see some of you again next year
Lots of love x
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Home Welcome to Waders Lookout A luxury home away from home A furnished holiday let was something we’ve spoken about doing for a long time and we finally got the opportunity to make the dream a reality, and we can’t wait to welcome you to our home. We think the location is perfect. Nature, wildl...

10/09/2023

A scorcher of a day to head over to Bircham Windmill and bake bread! The kids loved it, we climbed to the top, baked bread, ate cake and said hello to the resident animals. Who doesn’t love a donkey? Especially when it’s called Steve…

10/09/2023

Thoroughly recommend this place just 15 minutes away from Waders Lookout. There is an adventure playground and container golf for the kids… Beer garden for adults and dogs!

Ffolkes does street kitchen food and depending on the day you visit, you will find a different food experience. Resident traders include Oishii Street Kitchen and Ffolkes Pie Kitchen. The food was absolutely sensational!

Well worth a follow as they do a number of different event too with Oktoberfeast which looks awesome !

We will be back.

21/04/2023

Happy Spring!

It’s been a while and we hope you are all well.

It’s been a busy start of the year for us as it always is because we undertook our annual interior house painting throughout and carpet cleaning.

This included the sofa clean, gutter cleaning and the karcher made an appearance for the driveway and patio.

We replaced the hooks for the blinds, toilet roll holders, replaced a bedroom blind, and a few other bits.
Why tell you this ? - our standards are high and it is important we remain invested and passionate about Waders Lookout, which we all are.

The UK hospitality industry has been a strange one this year so far. We are part of many forums and groups for support, always learning and looking to see where we can improve, how to advertise for business, engagement etc and it is quite sad that bookings for many owners across the country are slower this year. Understandable but sad. It’s the balance between families prioritising where they spend their money and holidays, quite rightly fall below the must have list, for many ❤️

We have a beautiful countryside in the U.K. and so much to see and do and since COVID feels very much behind us, U.K. holiday bookings are now back at pre pandemic levels.

For us again this is strange as we opened during the pandemic and have been so busy for the last 2 years.

The good news is - we have availability still for the summer holidays.

We have 1 weekend left 1-4th Sept and 4 mid week breaks mon-fri in August.

All weekends during school holidays and July mid weeks are booked.

Strangely the May bank holiday is available 26th - 29th May?

And October half term but that for the last 2 years has booked last minute! Don’t know why?

Christmas is booked!! But New Year is still free.

So we absolutely still have lots of bookings, lots of repeat bookings and Airbnb. More Airbnb this year than previous so a reminder if we can give one - tell friends and family to always book direct if it is an option. The clue is when a property has a ’name’ to go away and google it. See if they have their own website.

The BBQ was moved to the garden today in preparation for repeat guests heading to Waders Lookout this weekend. The rain is being very persistent at the moment, annoyingly.

Prices are a challenge. The cost of living is a struggle for everyone. We are all feeling the pinch. Whilst Waders Lookout is attracting new and old customers, with prices remaining much lower than what many charge for similar properties, we are still a business and need to keep an eye on everything, all the time.

However we remain adamant for as long as possible we will keep our prices set. 2023 prices are set and we do not plan to raise them. They went up by £5-15 a night depending on the season but the £5 a night low season hike has seen a double in our electricity bill for the same months. So we are trying to remain consistent in pricing whilst being very aware of how hard it is for everyone to pay anymore and also making it all worth it!

It definately is. We love it at Waders Lookout. Here is it today after our amazing cleaning team did their magic. Still looks as good today as it did 3 years ago.

Thanks for reading 💕💕

03/02/2023

So proud to have the Springwatch team literally opposite Waders Lookout, again! If you haven’t watched the series, it’s so lovely and fills your heart with what’s going on

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1025637024942249?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V

31/12/2022

The live of Waders Lookout competition seems to have disappeared.
The winner was KB who has been contacted and watched the live, along with others (thank goodness!).
Trying to retrieve it and have contacted FB but in the meantime, thank you to everyone who bought a ticket or 2/3, for those who shared the post. We are sending £400 split between 2 charities, RSPB Snettisham and the local food bank. Have a Happy New Year. Clare, Leah, Kate and Steve
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25/12/2022

Merry Christmas to everyone who has stayed at Waders Lookout, for those who plan to stay and for everyone who generally follows us on our journey.

The raffle to stay with us in 2023 will be drawn New Years Eve so for those who said they wanted tickets, you will have been contacted by text and/or email. We are unable to chase any further. Please check your junk/spam as we cannot enter your name if the money has not been received.

There will be a summary of money received/donated amount when we do the draw on NYE, live, at 12pm.

Have the best few days with your nearest and dearest.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HO HO HO

24/11/2022

Raffle update - We have sold enough tickets to hold a raffle which is excellent, (subject to receiving the money).

Thank you to those who have paid so far. An email was sent to everyone who asked for tickets. This email also contains the dates you can choose from if you win.

Many of you have 3 tickets and with the share gets you 4 entries. Please keep telling your friends and family about this. If you planned to go with 5 other people, if they all buy a ticket, then hopefully between you all, you have 6 entries. Worth the ask!

All tickets sold now are for the RSPB Snettisham, we have already started building their pot.

It is not too late to share and enter - [email protected] to request tickets. You will then get a response back about payment and dates.

Thank you🥰

The RSPB is the UK's largest nature conservation charity, inspiring everyone to give nature a home and secure a healthy environment for wildlife. Join us.

11/11/2022

For a great stay and a great charity. Get your tickets now not long left 🙌🙌🤞good luck everyone

04/11/2022

Happy Friday!

Competition update - We have sold over half the tickets we need to in week 1 of the launch so thank you. We are currently on track to do a live draw at Christmas with someone winning a weekend stay at Waders Lookout worth £700 approx for the price of a raffle ticket!

Just some points -

1 - We can see many of you have shared our post on this feed and from personal FB account shares but not actually emailed to ask for a ticket. This is absolutely fine, but just wanted to reiterate that the ‘share’ gets you an EXTRA entry. You need to ask for a raffle ticket to actually be entered. No money will be taken until December. If you are simply sharing to spread the word and do not want to buy a ticket, thank you so much for sharing xx

2 - There are many of you who have emailed to request raffle tickets and said you have shared for your EXTRA entry but we can’t see the share. This is probably because your settings are private. This is of course fine, please don’t change this for us. It is merely a reminder that if you plan to share, click ’share’ on the original post and then it will go to your personal feed and to all your lovely friends and family on your contacts.

3 - One follower asked to buy all the minimum tickets so that way they get a weekend for much less than if they they booked it and paid full price. This then made us think, we should have said, maximum tickets are 3 PP. Whilst this person is a genius, it has to be fair to everyone entering!

4 - Waders Lookout is a registered FHL business at HMRC and all costs/transactions have to be evident so for those who want to give us £10 cash when they see us, sadly on this occasion 🤣, we have to show an audit trail through email and then the bank transfer. So if you want a ticket or 2/3, please send an email and we will respond.

4 - This is a ZERO profit competition. Every penny over our minimal costs to provide the weekend, will be donated to RSPB Snettisham. We have had an awesome two years and simply want to say THANK YOU 💕💕