It is in great demand by the British
Beach cabins are popular in the time of "Corona"
The prices of the booths doubled due to the great demand for them.
AFP
Colorful beach cabins have long been a common sight on the British coast, but they are in high demand with the increasing number of Britons on the beach due to the Corona pandemic.
Melanie Whitley contemplates the North Sea from her yellow and white cabin while sipping tea, and she did not come here to lie in the sun, out of sight, as the owners of these cabins promised to do, but rather to enjoy privacy and safety from the Corona virus.
Despite their huge prices, these cabins remain very primitive, without electricity or water in most cases, and it is forbidden to spend the night in them. As for Melanie’s room, it is a little more sophisticated, with a gas bottle connected to a hot plate and an oven that she uses to make the small cakes that often accompany tea and are known called "Scoons".
That's enough, Melanie says, sitting on a sofa covered in colorful blankets that she knitted.
Some of the booths that are rented on a daily basis offer services that are very popular with the young crowd, including a juice making section and tables for playing the game of baby foot.
The majority of daily renters are Sunnis, between the ages of 20 and 30, who come with their families, says Sarah Stimson, who runs a rental company called Walton on the Nice Beach Huts, which receives 70% of bookings via Instagram.
Sarah entered this field of business three years ago with her husband, and the epidemic allowed her to achieve the best business number, according to what she confirms.
All seven cabins it owns are booked until September, plus three others it manages.
“I think the pandemic has led people to seek to do certain things in Britain,” Stimson says, which has imposed strict border controls, and “that made us known.”
Double prices
On Walton-on-the-Know Beach, residents read the papers, nap or chat, and beside two booths called Paradise Found and Serenity, a group of women celebrate 60 years of friendship.
Sarah Stimson enjoys her own bright green cabin named "Queenie" after her great-grandmother. "It's a bit like an adult dollhouse," she says.
Despite the boom in business, the Stimsons have no intention of buying other beach cabins for the time being, because prices have doubled.
And a middle cabin in "Frenton-on-Sea", a city considered more upscale than "Walton-on-the-Nice", sells for between 50 and 60 thousand pounds, while "it was about 30 thousand last year," says Barry Hayes. Who believes that the pandemic "changed the equation".
The prices of the booths doubled due to the great demand for them.
ÀAFP
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