I don't know about you but I'm desperate for some beach hut time!!! Aren't you?  

Those Lockdowns have been TOUGH!! 

We are pleased to confirm that in line with the latest government guidance, all of our beach huts are open for hire! WHOOP! 

Due to demand school holidays and weekends are fully booked until September.  While you can always find each beach huts calendar fully up to date here (Just click on each hut to view and book), our final dates pre September are as per below.

Please do remember to read our terms and conditions and you'll find FAQs and maps etc further down this page - just scroll ;0)

 

*UPDATED AVAILAIBLITY as at 10th September at 9am - CLICK ON BEACH HUT NAME TO TAKE YOU TO BOOKING PAGE*

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SEPTEMBER AVAILABILITY -  we have good midweek availability in all beach huts (see individual diaries HERE, with below Sept weekends avail:

11th September - Fully Booked

12th September - High Tide (Row C, Southcliff)

18th September - Fully Booked​

19th September - ​Fully Booked​

25th September -  Seas The Moment (Fourth Row, Southcliff),  The Hideaway (E row, Southcliff),, Bonnie Lass (Front Row, Southcliff) 

26th September - The Hideaway (E Row, Southcliff), 

OCTOBER AVAILABILITY -  we have good midweek and weekend availability in all beach huts (see individual diaries HERE). 

p.s yep... we are open for October half term.. which hut will you choose?

 

 Beach Hut Hire - What Is It and How Much Does It Cost?

If you have just discovered beach huts or that you actually hire them - then you might be wondering what on earth it is!

Our Prices

Whenever I’m looking at ideas for a day out, the total cost of the day is always one of the first questions I have. I shouldn't be surprised that the cost of a beach hut hire is, therefore, one of the first questions you ask too!

So here's a run down of our pricing for 2021.

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Beach Hut Hire - Where To Find Us

Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

A peaceful and quintessentially traditional British seaside resort, Walton is great for a family day out with a beautiful Blue Flag Award beach. Walton is one of my own favourite fine sandy beaches, perfect consistency for building sandcastles, and wonderfully soft thanks to the sea which reaches the sea walls during high tide.

With great stretches of sand in both directions from the second longest pier in Great Britain, Walton is a great family beach. The gently shelving sand provides safe bathing and there is a seasonal lifeguard service.

Walton-on-the-Naze’s beach is also nice and easy to get to. There is plenty of parking nearby and the town’s train station is practically on the beach, just 90 minutes from London Liverpool Street. You can always extend your trip and book a nearby B&B.

There are two distinctly separate beach hut developments in Walton-on-the-Naze, both of which we have beach huts for hire:
EASTCLIFF (to right of the Pier - around 10-15 min walk) and SOUTHCLIFF (next to the Pier).

Just click on each palm tree to view location of our beach huts (n.b Mickey and Minnie are adjacent to each other in Eastcliff).

 

SOUTHCLIFF BEACH HUTS

The most well known of the two beaches, many tourists and holidaymakers tend to spend their time around Southcliff Beach due to it's the vicinity to the train station, cark parks and pier. Four rows (and in some places five) of beach huts ranging in number from 1 up to the 200 and then an additional private development of around 120 beach huts. Yep Southcliff wins the size war with circa 500-600 beach huts (at least!) with a busy, buzzing promenade on those hot summer days. Beach Huts - Bonnie Lass, High Tide, Hope, Seas The Moment, Sunnysands, The Hideaway, Rosie Posie
Click to Find Out More About Our Southcliff Beach Huts

EASTCLIFF BEACH HUTS

This section of beach in Walton-on-the-Naze mainly consists of just one row of beach huts and a small section where there is a row of two huts. This part of the beach and up towards the Naze Tower generates lots of excitement with some of the largest sharks’ teeth in the UK (including the rare Carcharocles megalodon) being found here! A calmer, quieter beach to get away from the noise and buzz of the Pier and Walton Promenade. Beach Huts - Loopy Lou, Mickey and Minnie
Click to Find Out More About Our Eastcliff Beach Huts

Beach Hut Hire - FAQs

The roadmap has provided dates - can you advise when you will open for bookings?
If 2020 taught us anything, it was to try not to plan too far ahead or become rigid about dates.
However with the changes announced all Beach Huts are currently password protected and will go live on SUNDAY 23rd May at 10am. There are two exceptions to this:

  • ​High Tide, our newest beach hut hire went live earlier this week. All school holidays, weekends in June-Sept are sold out. Mid weeks are available.
  • Harley's dates won't' be going on sale today. We have some changes and maintenance to do and given recent rain and weather it has to be rescheduled. I will update with further news once I have it.

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Note that you will notice that some dates are already blocked out. These are a combination of owner bookings plus pre-booked dates from 2020 before we closed the diaries.

Please please please try not to refresh your browser constantly prior to 10am.

They will not go on sale until 10am and continual refreshing in advance will add extra pressure to our website and host - we all remember when the Hinch effect crashed our site after her fab visit so we're doing our best to ensure this doesn't happen again ;0)

 

Please do make sure you are signed up to our email list HERE to be the first to find out about further date releases.
I'd love to be able to respond individually and provide a super tailored booking experience but we have several huts and therefore normally take over 1000 bookings per year.
As you can imagine, by the time we'd gone through them all individually, a date or hut availability would have changed which is why we ONLY accept bookings via our secure website (SSL certified).
The best way to also be informed about release dates is to join our email list - we always email out first, particularly given the change in social media algorithms! You can sign up HERE.

I'm afraid we no longer hire out any beach huts in Felixstowe.

If you have a gift voucher that expired while our booking systems have been closed then don’t worry. Any with an expired date post 1st October 2020 will be extended to 30th June 2021.
All bookings must be made online once we reopen but for now, feel free to pop me a message (vicky@milliesbeachhuts.co.uk) with your gift voucher code, name of purchased and expiry date and we will make sure it’s all updated!
For now, we have decided to remove our gift voucher sales.
Why?
Given demand we don’t want anyone buying vouchers then struggling to actually book a date with us this year.
Every part of the experience with Millie’s is important to us and this is something we feel we can avoid disappointing anyone with. Until we are confident we will be able to accommodate voucher bookings with enough choice on dates then we will keep the sale of these on hold for now.
Any gift voucher Q’s then holler - best way is to email me (vicky@milliesbeachhuts.co.uk) with name of purchaser and code/expiry date on voucher

In prior years, we have allowed 8 people to hire each front row beach hut with 6 allowed in our second-row beach huts (Mickey and Minnie), both in and out of the hut which includes babies and children.

Having discussed and agreed with all of our beach hut owners, I’m happy to confirm that as per the latest government guidance, from Monday 17th May, we will now accept up to 8 people per booking from a max of 2 households(as per hospitality guidance).

This applies to bookings already made and confirmed aswell as those yet to book.

Note the exception to this is Mickey and Minnie who will remain at six per beach hut. Both have raised balconies and we have always limited to six due to safety reasons. 💗💗

Please please do remember 8 is the absolute max including babies and children both in and outside the hut. The huts are close together and we always ask that you be mindful of our neighbours when visiting to make everyone’s visit enjoyable and safe too xx

We have just one set of side by side huts but we love them!

You'll find Mickey and Minnie side by side in Eastcliff, Walton on the Naze.  They are second-row beach huts but raised above the front row with joined private balconies - the views are amazing but with the perfect spot for privacy too.

The reason we purchased our very first beach hut was due to the fact that the Southcliff beach between the Pier and Frinton-on-Sea is dog friendly all year round -WHOOP!! And the business is named after my very own furry springer - Millie!

This means that all of our huts in Southcliff are perfect for our furiends (Hope, Harley, Seas The Moment, Sunnysands and Rosie Posie

There is a small stretch of beach on the other side of the pier that is restricted from 1st May to 30th September and similarly, there are stretches of beach in Eastcliff that have similar restrictions.  If you are booking Loopy Lou, Mickey or Minnie please bare this in mind!

Our beach huts aren't accessible as we'd like them to be and all have standard door frames.

However, Rosie Posie is the closest to the Pier enabling level access and then there is just one step into the beach hut. She is 13 beach huts from the Pier.

Sunnysands is a very close second in terms of distance (70 beach huts from the pier)

All beach huts are currently password protected while we update the calendars and info ready for bookings.

You will not need a password when they go on sale at the time indicated.

We do!

Some of you may have seen Isla (along with Harley and Rosie Posie) feature in Interior Design Masters on BBC2 with Alan Carr.  Having discussed with lots of our regular visitors, we built upon the changes during the show, and refreshed her to fit with our brand.

It felt apt to rename her now - she's now named Hope! 

We've been absolutely blown away by the support from our fellow #hinchers and the very kind support from Mrs Hinch herself.

The beach hut that you will have spotted in Mrs Hinch stories was Minnie.   You'll find Mickey right next door too!

Due to the scale of bookings and to ensure you can check up to date information re availability we only accept bookings that are made online.

You can find all our beach huts HERE.

Note - the date is only confirmed once you have fully completed your purchase.

Most of Essex beach huts aren't directly situated on the sand with the exception of a handful in Felixstowe and the beach huts in Mersea.

Our Beach Huts in Walton, like so many others are situated on a promenade which is next to the sea wall.  Steps are at frequent points along the promenade with direct access down to the beach.

I always want to know this too - it's important right!

Unfortunately the answer varies by beach hut but all our huts have toilets within a few mins walk (4 min walk max!)

I'm afraid not - so use those cool bags and make sure phones are charged for those all important Insta snaps!

Or why not switch off and completely chill out for the day?

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Oh, and while you are dreaming of seaside trips and fish and chips on the beach, you'll get our exclusively designed colouring-in sheet.

I have a funny feeling you'll know someone who will enjoy colouring in their own beach huts, and Millie herself, before your next booking.