DO YOU ALLOW ONE NIGHT STAYS AT THE BARN?
Yes, but only in special circumstances.
In principle, our minimum booking is three nights throughout most of the year, and 7 nights in July and August.
The 7 night policy allows us to take more “family” visits during the school holidays. We do have an excep#on
even in the summer – if one family is leaving on a Monday, and another arriving the next Friday, we will allow a
Mon-Friday (4 nts) or even a 3-night booking in between.
Manx bookers and repeat guests can take advantage of a choice of two special offers – a 10% discount on the
base room charge, or an extra night free.
All that said, you don’t have to stay all the nights that you book. Par#cularly during the fes#ve seasons, it is quite
common for a corporate client to book three nights, use the first day for set-up, host a corporate event the
second day, have a few people stay over, and return on the third day to clean up.
Outside of the Christmas, TT and Summer seasons, the cheapest three-night stay is Mon-Thu, which costs £600 +
5% VAT = £630. The most expensive is a weekend Fri-Mon, at £1100+VAT. You can work out any other
combina#ons using this pricing:
M £100, T £100, W £200, T £200, Fri £350, Sat £350, Sun £200. Add £200 cleaning, and VAT at 5%.
During the quiet seasons, we also allow mid-week 2 day bookings at £600 + VAT.
One night bookings. We DO make some excep#ons, but only on Mondays to Thursdays. You’ll appreciate that
accep#ng a single night on a weekend would inevitably cause us to lose a whole weekend booking, as we are
ALWAYS full on weekends.
A one night stay on any day is £550 Plus VAT. But …
We do not allow the hos#ng of large par#es. We have unfortunately twice had the experience of young people
booking a short stay then publicizing a “rave” on the internet causing over 100 people to show up and trash our
home. In both cases drugs were found, the police had to be called, the damage was over £2,000 and had to be
paid by the booker (in one case, aDer court proceedings). We simply cannot tolerate this or impose it on our
neighbors. That said, a responsible adult with a legi#mate reason for booking only a single night can request a
concession. For your guidance:
We have permitted: a BBC documentary film crew; a yoga retreat; an agricultural photoshoot; a bank’s board
mee#ng; a counselling group; various corporate training sessions; a lawyers’ conference; a strategy mee#ng;
various healthcare training sessions.
We have refused: an “adult content” film shoot; an escort service; a high school gradua#on party; a university
reunion.
Please note the following requirements for single event bookings: booker must be adult aged 30+; booker
accepts responsibility for ac#ons of all persons present; not more than 25 persons may aFend any event; group
staying must observe our noise rules; we reserve the right to ask for a substan#al damage deposit.
If you would like to request a one night booking please email manxbarn@gmail.com telling us who you are,
where you come from, the purpose of the booking, who will aFend, and whether you can fulfil the condi#ons.