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Hughes family

OUR STORY

Since moving to Margaret River, we’ve not looked back….sure it’s been a colourful journey at times and occasionally the train goes even faster, though the funny stories and wonderful guests have made it all worthwhile.  

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Back in 2019, our life was stagnating somehow. Living many years in a high pressure, yet comfortable expat life in The Lion City of Singapore, we loved our life on paper but weren’t sure we were ‘in love’ with that type of life anymore.

Jules, a celebrated family photographer from country England, and me, leading a large tourism business but all the way from country Australia, north of Sydney.  Together with our kids Bella, Jonah and Maxi, life was moving at a pace like the Shinkansen Bullet Train in Japan not wanting to make the tightly scheduled stop at Osaka station.  

Yet if we wanted to slow it down, we needed to change the course.  It was time to stop the train so we tossed the comfy life and did the ultimate ‘tree change’ moving to Margaret River, a tourism town we’d visited on holidays a couple of times before. 

Before kids, Jules and I were travellers at heart, living in Dubai and enjoying the unbridled freedom of travel.  As our kids came along, our thirst for travel continued, though was reshaped in a different way. Late nights were replaced by dark hotel rooms (shared with kids), staring at the light glow of our iPhones while they delivered lullabies and wondering how did life become like this?

It was these moments, that inspired us to offer accommodation in a different way.  To focus on giving guests moments beyond the beds and blankets. 

In 2019, Margaret River Holiday Cottages was reshaped and reborn and in the years since, we’ve survived the Covid 19 bump, welcomed 1000s of guests, provided a home for 100s of animals and invested heavily to develop a unique type of farm stay. 

Assisting our journey we have a small but gifted team.  There’s Trusty Assistant Lisa, Ben the Garden Groomer, Renovation Roy, Lizetta keeping our spaces clean and many locals and travellers lending a hand and leaving a legacy. If you meet the team, or see our kids floating around, stop for a chat, they just love being involved in the hospitality business, sometimes they make better hosts than us!

 Andrew H & Jules, Bella, Jonah, Maxi, The Team and animals!

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