Clean your own toilets, holiday park begs guests after staff pinged by NHS app

He says that has left him little choice but to enlist the help of guests.

The email, which warned that those who weren’t prepared to help might have their bookings cancelled, stated: “Dear Guest, apologies if this email causes distress, but, we are perilously close to closing our toilet blocks and cancelling touring holidays, all because healthy staff who’ve tested negative are nevertheless required by law to self-isolate following an NHS ‘ping’.

“With your help, toilet blocks could be kept open, and touring holidays saved. The crunch time will be from now through to end-August (we reckon that by September the law will have been changed to allow healthy staff with negative tests to continue working).”

It added: “Please email [email protected] if you are willing to give up some of your own holiday to help save holidays for touring guests like you. The work will involve cleaning toilet blocks.

“I appreciate this is a very big ask, and many of you will either not be able to help, or will not wish to help, and that is of course fine.

“These are, however, desperate times and we are exploring all our options, so we know which way we have to jump if too many of our team is ‘pinged’, leaving us unable to keep toilet blocks cleaned and guests safe.

“Please be assured that if we are forced to cancel holidays, then we will be making full refunds, not rearranging dates.”