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About half of our houses now have 2021 availability shown on our website – through to and including the week of Sunday June 6th 2021, covering the Easter period and May half-term (next year a week later than usual, starting Fri 28th, Sat 29th or Sun 30th May. For houses that normally Start/Changeover Tues/Wed/Thurs May half-term week will typically move to Friday 28th, or Sunday 30th, but not Sat 29th. Or for these Tues/Wed/Thurs houses, do ask for 8 or 9 or even longer stays.

If your favourite house isn’t shown, it will likely not have 2021 availability shown until September this year – but do enquire by email and we can add you to the Waiting List for that house. But the houses shown can be booked right now.

Click here for Easter 2021 availability

or

Click here for May half-term 2021 availability

Houses will largely follow their normal Changeover days – but we can be flexible if needed, and may be able to offer extra nights for longer stays.

Or Click here for Summer weeks in Cornwall and the Cotswolds

There are still some odd short breaks and also some availability for the last week of August into early September. We also have occasional cancellations, so do keep an eye.

Perhaps October half-term may be perfect – click here

All houses will move to a Friday/Saturday or Sunday changeover for October (and all) half-term.

Or maybe this is the year to spend Christmas or New Year away! Click here.

For Christmas and New Year, changeover days will of course change – with the split between the Christmas and New Year being the 27th or 29th December – changeovers on 28th Dec are unlikely to be possible for any further bookings.

Coronavirus Update – Thursday July 16th 8am

Our advice will continue to be updated regularly. Please read through and consider which aspects apply to you. There are few changes below – we continue to have little information or certainty. Over the coming week or two, we will expect to start publishing some details of how we will prepare for guests in July/August and how we will ask guests, who can travel, to play their part to keep everyone safe.

The current UK government advice can be found here – https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

We are open, and guests have been arriving since 4th July. Do also look at our guidance and instructions for guests coming down ongoing – click here

And also, do have look, here, at our ongoing guide to what’s open, what may not be, and tips for making the best of your stay in Trevose in the time of Covid!

First of all, our phones are very busy, and our staff are busier than ever!! Most mornings, we will not be answering the phone, instead asking you to listen to the Voicemail message and ideally to email rather than leaving a message. Later in the day, we will try to answer phones – but where not possible, please listen to the Voicemail message and act accordingly. For balance payments by card, we will normally have to ring you back – whether you have left a voicemail or emailed. If you do want to check what you have to pay, please email enquiries@raintreehouseholidays.co.uk and ask. We will try to prioritise replies to these simple emails.

Please could all our guests remember to treat our staff with respect and understanding, whether on the phone or by email. This is an incredibly difficult time and all our staff are dealing with hundreds of issues and customer concerns every day, with ever changing information and real concern about livelihoods. We know it’s also very difficult for all our guests and we want to be able to help.

Arrivals, coming soon

For all guests coming in the next week or so, we will send an email explaining about your upcoming stay. Much is the same, some is a little different. It’s important that all is read and understood, as there are specific actions you need to take in relation to Covid. You can see the update here.

New bookings for 2020

All new bookings now for 2020 start weeks will benefit from a 20% Deposit rather than the normal 40%.

If a new booking were affected by Covid, the standard Covid Offer would apply, meaninging a 50% Credit would be available for a new booking. The 20% deposit means that the risk of this situation is reduced.

Cancelling your holiday

Should you wish to cancel your holiday, we would ask that you check with your insurance provider that this would not prejudice any claim you may make. We will be able to help with any documentation you need to make a claim. If you have not taken out travel insurance, or you are unable to make a claim, then we will consider whether we can include you in our Covid Offer process – providing you are able to state clearly that you either don’t have, or are unable to claim on, any insurance and that your cancellation was Covid related.

For bookings where guests do not expect to be able to travel, cancellation is likely to be the best option – allowing another guest to book your week, and you to receive the maximum refund against what you have paid.

Guests who have cancelled can always reinstate a booking if they subsequently decide they wish and can travel and it has not been booked to another guest.

Cancellations should always be made by email to enquiries@raintreehouseholidays.co.uk

Balance Payments

Please try to pay by Bank Transfer if this works for you. We are very busy, and taking card payments over the phone is time consuming. Please try to email rather than ring, and you can ask for a call back to pay your balance if you do need to pay by card.

We can be a little flexible on Balance payment, but, generally, we are moving back to normal ‘month in advance’ Balance payments, and Balance reminders will start again soon. So if you are coming in at the end of July, and soon into August, please do start to pay your balances now.

If the worst happens, after you have paid your balance, and your week is not possible, then you will have the choice to have your balance refunded and revert to a normal Covid deposit situation; or to take a 100% Credit for the whole full rental forward to a new booking. We hope this means there is no additional risk for guests in paying their balances.

As we are currently accepting new bookings from July 2020 onwards, it may be possible that cancelled weeks in July and later may be re-booked to other guests, allowing you to receive a near full or significant refund, if your week re-books, as per our standard Terms and Conditions – www.raintreehouse.co.uk/our-terms/

Alternatively, guests would be able to reinstate any cancelled booking from July onwards if it remains un-let, provided we are informed at least 4 days before your cancelled booking is due to start.

All our bookings are governed by our standard Terms and Conditions – www.raintreehouse.co.uk/our-terms/

General information for getting in touch

Phones are expected to be very busy and our reduced number of staff are now working from home throughout office hours, so please use email where possible. We can always try to ring you back where a chat would be helpful. We understand this is a very stressful time for guests.

We will continue to prioritise our email replies. Often this means that we will work from the bottom – meaning that replies can be expected to take 3-4 working days or sometimes longer. Even these timeframes may come under pressure as we are now moving staff to work on guests who are staying at our houses. Please bear with us – frustrating as it is, nothing will spoil so please do expect a few days before each reply.

However we will be replying to all the emails – so please try to be patient.

Requests for call backs for Balance payments or confirmation about Balance amounts required will be prioritised.

General Covid cancellation notes and beneficial offers

Guests should note our standard Terms and Conditions as these lay out the standard situation for all cancelled bookings. As above, however, we do hope to be able to offer beneficial terms for re-booking at the same house later this year or next. There will likely be some differences depending on which house you were booked into, and we will not necessarily be able to confirm details for a few weeks from now. For some, this may fall after the original dates of your holiday.

Some have asked why we can’t immediately refund all money or move a booking to next year. It sounds like this would be fine and we understand that in normal times Raintree would often move a booking for you. The problem we have now is that many bookings, or even all bookings within a long period, would like a refund or to move. We are an agent, and we can’t just move all financial loss directly onto each of our home owners when our Terms and Conditions are clear about how cancellations are handled and when insurance is always recommended to guard against this kind of scenario. However, we, and our homeowners, want to be fair and help guests where we can and have agreed offers for all guests who end up with Covid affected weeks. Large costs have been incurred in preparation for all bookings over 6-9 months. We continue to be sensitive to particular cicumstances and can compromise when a guest’s situation warrants it. We hope all can reach a situation they feel is fair in this very difficult situation.

We are very sorry about the current situation, but we feel that the welfare of our guests, owners and staff must always take priority in these unprecedented times. We hope that everyone stays well and safe and we look forward to welcoming you to Raintree and North Cornwall once the uncertainty passes.