Planning Ahead for a Rental Vacation

• What are the check-in and check-out times?
  
• Why am I limited to the number of people allowed? May I have guests?
  
• How can I obtain Trip Insurance?
  
• Why can't we bring pets? (Rule seems awfully rigid.)
  
• Do I have to bring my own sheets and towels?
  
• I keep seeing references to an outside shower and a "shore shower"
  
• How do I get a beach sticker? Can I go to the beach in any other town?
  
• Where can I find out about religious services/observances?
  
• I'm traveling alone and I don't need a whole cottage. Does anyone else ask you this?
  

Reserving and Making a Deposit

• How do I reserve the cottage I have chosen?
  
• How do I send a deposit?
  
• What is the "Booking Fee"?
  
• Where do I send my deposit?
  
• Can I use a credit card?
  
• I'm outside the continental US. Can I wire my deposit?
  
• Will you send anything in writing?
  
• What happens if I need to change my reservation?
  
• What happens if I need to cancel?
  

• What Is Your Check-In Procedure?
  
• Where do I come to check in?
  
• What if I'm going to be late?
  
• When and how do I pay the balance?
  
• What forms of payment do you accept?
  
• Can I get a receipt?

• Where can I go to get Internet access?
  
• Can I locate rentals using Mapquest? GPS?
  
• Where can I rent a crib, high chair, or other baby gear?
  
• What do I do with the key when I leave?
  
• Does the cottage have an iron?
   

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