Celeb touch for log cabins
0 Comments | Forester, The; Cinderford (UK), Jul 22, 2010
Celebrity designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen will be bringing a touch of style to the Forest’s newest luxury resort.
Mr Makeover will be adding the finishing touches to the brand new upmarket wooden cabins being built at the Christchurch site.
Forest Holidays will be using his designer homeware range to decorate tree houses at the site near Coleford.
Never mind Swiss Family Robinson – these boast their own en- suite bathroom and are the height of luxury.
A wood and rope walkway will link them to top notch four-bed Golden Oak plus cabins which come complete with large terraces and hot tub.
Some of the luxury cabins will floor to ceiling glass panels and specialist night vision equipment so visitors can watch the wildlife day and night.
Five-star luxury touches include fluffy bathrobes and slippers, flat screen TVs and even a Wii.
Bracelands is just one of three sites to offer the tree house experience which has proved a hit elsewhere.
Visitors start arriving in September but Laurence Llewelyn- Bowen, who lives in the county, will be officially opening the new development of 76 luxury log cabins a month later.
Some owners of campervans and motorhomes were upset when they were moved to make way for the timber chalets which will cost Pounds 1,600 a week to rent.
But tourism chiefs say it is just what the Dean needs.