The monsoon finally hit Bophut earlier this month and with only a single long stay guest, Lucy decided to send most of the staff home and close the hotel. She used the opportunity to have guest rooms freshly painted and conduct other bits of internal maintenance work.
Strong onshore winds whipping-up the sea from the north east combined with seasonal high tides to dump a layer of beach sand on the lawn. Jonny manfully shovelled most of it back which, together with a recent three-day deluge diluted the salt sufficiently to save the grass.
As is frequently the case during the monsoon, the pier didn’t survive the first major storm of the season and lost a goodly chunk of itself to the seas. We are so fortunate that we have a beach, even during the highest tides, against which the seas can crash. Other village beachside businesses are not so favoured, as can be seen in the photo below, and are doubtless receiving more in the way of damage than a layer of sand.
The staff return to work this Sunday to start the big external cleanup in the run up to our Christmas and New Year peak season, when fortunately, Baan Bophut is booked out.
Monsoon storms force closure…
The monsoon finally hit Bophut earlier this month and with only a single long stay guest, Lucy decided to send most of the staff home and close the hotel. She used the opportunity to have guest rooms freshly painted and conduct other bits of internal maintenance work.
Strong onshore winds whipping-up the sea from the north east combined with seasonal high tides to dump a layer of beach sand on the lawn. Jonny manfully shovelled most of it back which, together with a recent three-day deluge diluted the salt sufficiently to save the grass.
As is frequently the case during the monsoon, the pier didn’t survive the first major storm of the season and lost a goodly chunk of itself to the seas. We are so fortunate that we have a beach, even during the highest tides, against which the seas can crash. Other village beachside businesses are not so favoured, as can be seen in the photo below, and are doubtless receiving more in the way of damage than a layer of sand.
The staff return to work this Sunday to start the big external cleanup in the run up to our Christmas and New Year peak season, when fortunately, Baan Bophut is booked out.