If you want to plan a long-awaited escape from city life, Molly Cooper, founder and host of the Apple top ten podcast, Curated Spaces, and her new co-founder India Hogg, have completed their mission to reignite real world connections, through the launch of their new travel-tech platform and community club.
From Podcast to Platform
The Curated Spaces podcast has captured the stories of leading founders and creatives, across hospitality, design, and travel, and has regularly secured over 10K monthly listeners.
Guests have included Ben Harper, Group CEO of Watergate Bay, Hector Hughes founder of Unplugged, and interior designer Francesca Rowan.
Initially, Molly thought the series would focus more on design elements, however, deeper conversations and topics evolved and revealed themselves, around mental health, sustainability, and the importance of bringing people together.
Unexpectedly, guests would honestly and bravely recount the initial risk they took to get their dream projects off the ground. This included putting their life savings, with no previous hospitality experience, into breathing new life into spaces and communities across the country.
Molly commented, “Curated Spaces is about living life in full colour and connecting deeply with the spaces and faces around us. I’ve been blown away by the response to Curated Spaces – it’s been an incredible journey seeing how the story behind each space has resonated with listeners and reaffirmed for me, just how important these places are and the impact they have on people’s lives.”
Exclusive User Deals
Users will feel a warming holiday glow from the moment they start to imagine their text trip.
Having sat down with the founders and owners of over fifty boutique spaces, Molly realised there was a shared frustration with incumbent booking platforms that offer a really poor user experience, for spaces and bookers alike.
Molly made the decision to launch a design-led travel platform, that puts the joy back into booking, by championing a curated selection of Britain’s best boutique spaces, while supporting their founders; through 0% commission bookings and innovative features.
Users will enjoy exclusive access to weekly giveaways, flash sales, and last-minute availability.
Launch Venues Include:
From a 17th Century former farmstead to family-owned pubs and eco-retreats, quality and delicious food, is assured in all of these hand-picked staycation locations.
Updown Farmhouse, Deal, Kent
Updown, is a beautiful 17th Century former farmstead just outside Deal, Kent. Along with the Gate House and Gardener’s Cottage, the house has been lovingly updated to provide a total of six luxuriously appointed rooms.
Bert’s Kitchen Garden, North Wales
Sleep, eat, and escape at this thriving kitchen garden and eco-campsite retreat (glamping options available). A perfect base to explore the magnificent Llyn Peninsula. Set on thirteen acres of land, it’s only five minutes from Trefor Beach, on the sunset side of the peninsula.
The Collective at Woolsery, North Devon
The Collective at Woolsery is a very special experience in one of the most wild and unspoilt areas of the country. Based in the pretty village of Woolsery, North Devon, The Collective comprises an award-winning dining pub,
The Farmers Arms, a gourmet fish and chip shop, a charmingly traditional corner shop and post office, and a 150-acre farm which provides produce for all of the above. A boutique hotel, Wulfheard Manor, is currently in development. The Collective is the creation of tech entrepreneurs Michael and Xochi Birch, who have family connections in the area.
