Beach Hut Hire in 2021

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 following the most recent government review we will be opening all June dates onwards on Sunday 23rd at 10am

All Beach Huts are currently password protected and will go live on SUNDAY 23rd May at 10am. There are two exceptions to this:

#1 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.

#2 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.

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)

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 - Harley, Hope, Seas The Moment, Sunnysands, 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

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.

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.

Please do make sure you are signed up to our email list HERE to be the first to find out about further date releases.

Once you put dates on sale, can you tell me if x hut is free OR x date is free?

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.

Will we be able to book huts in Felixstowe this year?

I have a Gift Voucher that expired between October 2020 and now (while booking systems were closed), will this be extended?

Do You Sell Gift Vouchers?

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

How Many People Are Allowed?

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

Do You Have Side by Side Beach Huts?

Are the Beach Huts/Beach Dog Friendly?

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!