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Coronavirus (COVID-19) statement – updated 03 July 2020
Planning to reopen 27th August – contact us with enquiries.
Saddle Mountain Hostel has been closed since 15th March 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic. We did this to comply with the official Scottish lockdown and also to protect the health of our local community, potential guests and ourselves.
From 3rd July onwards the restrictions on travel within Scotland are being lifted and then on 15th July the Scottish Government is allowing all tourist accommodation providers to reopen for business if they choose to.
For hostels such as ours this creates a lot of challenges. The usual communal facilities of a hostel normally allow guests from different groups to mingle but in the current situation the Scottish Government has had to place a lot of restrictions on how we can operate because of physical distancing requirements. These cover how many guests we can have, how many households they can come from, and what facilities they can be allowed to use. See our latest blog for more information about the practical challenges which we face.
These restrictions affect different hostels in different ways but in our case we do not feel that they will allow us to run the hostel in a viable fashion in the short term. We have therefore taken the difficult decision to put off our reopening until 27th August 2020, as we think that by then further changes in the rules should allow us to operate the hostel in the way we want to and our guests expect. When we do reopen it is likely to be either for groups only or private rooms only (with allocated toilets and showers) until next spring. Exactly what we are able to do will depend upon what the rules then in force allow us to do.
If you are interested in staying with us from 27th August onwards please contact us directly either by email (info@saddlemountainhostel.scot) or by phone (01809 501412). We can then discuss what we can offer you. We have in the meantime temporarily disabled our online booking system.
Up until 27th August we will continue to follow the policy we have adopted since we closed to offer guests with bookings when we are not open either a 100% refund or the chance to change their booking date to a new date within 12 months of the original one. If you are affected and we haven’t already contacted you we will do so soon. We will also update this statement as and when anything changes.
We are looking forward to finally opening our doors again. This is, after all, our livelihood and we have missed meeting our guests, both old and new. The great Scottish outdoors is still here, ready and waiting to welcome everyone.
See you soon,
Helen & Greg
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