Two volunteer caretakers manage the day-to-day operations, greeting guests, getting them up to speed on island life, changing beds, making bread, stoking the sauna on the repurposed former ferry dock and organising meals. Guests are introduced to the limited island resources; they"re asked to take short showers – the hotel uses a pump and filters seawater into a small tank – and to help pitch in during mealtimes. For many, this self-sufficiency and simplicity is part of the appeal, and the hotel attracts like-minded people happy to join in and help.