Barclay Owned Hotels Reopen In Sark

Thursday, 7 July 2022 12:43

A company called The Sark Estate, which represents the billionaire Barclay family is reopening some of its hotels.

La Moinerie Village and Dixcart Terrace have already opened, with the company considering offering a long-term lease for the Aval du Creux Hotel at the top of Harbour Hill.

They've been closed since 2014, but Kevin Delaney from the company that operates them says market forces prompted them to reopen.

"It hasn't been too much work on the two particular hotels that we're opening because they were subject to full refurbishment back in 2011/12.

A lot of properties that have found themselves into the tourist sector - that would have normally been in the domestic rental sector - have now gone back into that domestic rental sector, and there is a shortage of tourism beds on the island. We are just responding to circumstances."

Both La Moinerie and Dixcart are full tonight (8 July), as visitor numbers on Sark swell for the music festival.

Dixcart Terrace in Sark

Mr Delaney added that they began taking guests at the Moinerie and Dixcart because the demand was there.

"People are very pleased to see these hotels opening. I have to make the point it is commercially driven. I'm not opening them for the sake of opening them - they have to wash their faces.

We've achieved it through - if I may call it - a standing army of workforce that has been with me for many years, and one or two people on the island - as is the Sark way, mucking in and doing that little bit extra."

There are plans to re-open more of the Barclay's owned hotels on Sark.