0 Shares Educating Your Guests in the Etiquette of Cottage Living I recently read a forum post from a non-renting cottage owner blaming cottage renters on his lake for all manner of poor behaviour. Late night noise, operating watercraft in an unsafe and irresponsible manner, and general rowdiness were a few of the complaints levelled at the rental groups. This is not the first time I […]
0 Shares Are Your Rental Guests Happy? In an increasingly competitive vacation rental market, you have to do things differently to help you stand out from the rest. That might be a matter of using well staged photos on your web site, having features and facilities that others don’t offer, and making sure your rental rate is set fairly. But, there’s another […]
0 Shares Renting 101 – Creating Your Beginners Guide I’ve had a couple of emails from potential cottage renters in the past few days that reminded me how many first-time renters there are each year and how important it is to provide basic information for them It’s hard sometimes not to become irritated by seemingly ‘dumb’ questions which are in fact perfectly relevant if […]
0 Shares What’s In Your Cottage Guide? f you have ever stayed at a vacation rental you will know that one of the first things you look for is the book that tells you where everything is, how to work certain appliances, where to find the local grocery store, and what to do in an emergency. Well, maybe not everyone is like […]
0 Shares What do Your Guests do Most at Your Cottage? What is the one thing everyone will do on a vacation in a cottage? I mean everyone….from the tiniest baby to great grandma? They will do it, not once, but every single day of their holiday. They will sleep! And since they are on vacation, they would hope that it will be a good […]
0 Shares ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A COTTAGE RENTER? We’ve all heard stories about Cottage renters who, during their stay at a Cottage, have either wrecked something, done something stupid, failed to follow instructions given, left the cottage in a mess or upset the neighbours. Many of these tales may just be legend or embellished over time to make a better story. However, […]
0 Shares Why Don’t Guests Read the Cottage Guide? I was talking with a cottage owner this weekend who remarked that he could not understand why renters cannot seem to follow the simplest of instructions in the cottage guide. One explanation could be that they follow them too closely and my experience after my Christmas renters supports this. We ask our rental guests to […]
0 Shares What your Guests Need to Know About Winter Rentals On one of our first winter visits to our Haliburton Highlands cottage from the UK, we experienced a 36 hour power outage during and after a winter storm. It was pretty scary as the road out was blocked by snow; the plough didn’t get round until the second day; we’d never realised we’d be without […]
0 Shares Preparing your guests for winter rental Rental guests come in all shapes, sizes and from a great variety of backgrounds. Similarly, they all have varying preconceived ideas about what to expect from their vacation rental. Where people are used to city services – water, sewage, garbage collection and of course snow removal, it’s important to let them know the differences they […]
