[babysaurs]

Hi
Dh and I are looking at setting up a holiday rental in the pines York peninsula sa.
For those in sa would love to know if this would be a place you would go on holiday?
It would be a 3 bedroom place.
What things do you kook for in a holiday rental that we should have here? What configaration of beds?
What else are the essential things?
Any help or advice greatly appreciated:)

[cattivo lupo]

We've rented holiday houses and the things we've liked are:

- wood fires in winter (wood provided)
- dishwasher
- clean BBQ
- toilet separate from bathroom (this is if you are catering for 6 guest)
- nice pictures on the wall ( I know it isn't essential but it's nice)
- good books and games, the last one we stayed at had heaps of books and they were ones I wanted to read and pictionary
- we've appreciated dish washing liquid and tea towels and salt and pepper
- DVDs, CDs and players, iPod dock
- fans
- spare surf boards have been a nice surprise
- clothes rack for drying
- folder of local attractions/restaurants


That's all I can think of off the top if my head. I've got the family sitting here brainstorming with me. We are in NSW, but DD (10) says she would like to rent your house from you. She's been very interested in helping out with this post .

[LittleMissPink]

If you are catering to families, a bathtub, highchair and clean portacot would come in handy.

It depends on your market for the bed configuration, but for general rentals I would suggest a queen, a twin room ( 2 singles) and a bunk room.

[Genabee]

Can't help you with the location, but when we have stayed at a holiday rental, we have needed (and looked for rentals based on whether or not they can provide):

- cot or porta cot
- high chair
- linen
- heating/cooling options
- basic kitchen equipment (pots, pans, knives, cutlery, crockery, can opener, bottle opener etc)
- Wifi
- washing facilities
- Perhaps information on where the local shops, doctors, chemist and other important, useful services are located.

[babysaurs]

Thankyou so much for your reply!
Will add those things to our list.
Is bed configuratin of 1x queen in eac larger room and the 2x bunks in 1 room ok?
Do people prefer bunks or are they seen as too dangerous for kids?
Games and dvds are a great idea i know we have appreciated these things before too:)

[Elemenopee]

First thing I would check is if The Pines is on mains water. Some towns further down the Peninsula are not. Ours isn't. This means we cannot supply any linen, and also means we need to consider how much water we've got, which then effects how many bookings we can take. You're not it SA OP? I would also need to know that I had a cleaner first - or 2. Our cleaner gave us 4 hours notice that she had left town, and we had people coming in that day, so it was a mad scramble to find someone else.
Would I stay there? I'm not sure what the beach is like there, that would be are biggest consideration. How far is it to surf beaches? I think there is just one shop. Yorkes is a great place to holiday, and we get lots of bookings. Ours is in the main surfing hub so we get lots of surfers.

[babysaurs]

Do to the area wifi would not be an option so i dont think there would be any interenet access at the property. It is a rural area about 1 st back from the beach:)

[Elemenopee]

That is the bed configuration we have - 2 queens, and 2 bunk beds, so sleeps 8, but we say hous limit of 6 as more than that burns through our rainwater.

[lilybet]

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This post has been edited by EHB: 06/01/2013, 07:04 PM

[elmo_mum]

decent cookware
usable knives
nice linen

king bed
as many beds as u can - a dble bunk?
fold out couch
comfy couches!!!

nice sized dinig table

good tv - prefer cable, even basic package, or at least dvd/blue ray with a decent libary!