I've spent a week searching for a little ski condo/cabin about an hour away. It's my sister's 30th birthday and I wanted to do a little getaway for her - skiing, snowtubing, hot tubbing, drinking (well, not so much me), spa day.
I'm inviting her friends to come and we have a group of 5 so far, maybe 6 - possibly 7. I got turned down for my top choice of place (they do not rent to singles - only to families with children, not 6 adults together unless you are related).
I'm not asking anyone to chip in any money - they can come and stay for free in the condo. They just have to pay to ski if they want it, dinner out or spa day, etc.
It has been a bit hard to find all my "wants" - on property (ski in ski out even), 2 bathrooms to make getting ready faster, not super super expensive, hot tub, will book single people, not scammy/asking me to go off the website to book, etc.
I found one and while a bit smaller than what we wanted (a 2BR but sleeps 6+), it's perfect. Contacted them and dates are available.
I just realized - no TV and no WiFi when I looked at the photos closely and read the listing again. Is this bad? Lodge has WiFi, restaurants/spa have WiFi. We could bring games and I guess some DVDs on a laptop.
My sister said people aren't going to want to waste their data all weekend. I thought maybe they could just use sparingly and use more when we go out to eat, if someone needs to check work email they could go to the coffee shop?
What's weird - I LOVE internet, but never thought to check. Don't want to disappoint ppl.
I don't think that is legal.
A lot of short term rental have similar rules. Or you have to be over a certain age. They don't want lots of parties. Since it's just a short term rental, do they have the same restrictions?
I've spent a week searching for a little ski condo/cabin about an hour away. It's my sister's 30th birthday and I wanted to do a little getaway for her - skiing, snowtubing, hot tubbing, drinking (well, not so much me), spa day.
I'm inviting her friends to come and we have a group of 5 so far, maybe 6 - possibly 7. I got turned down for my top choice of place (they do not rent to singles - only to families with children, not 6 adults together unless you are related).
I'm not asking anyone to chip in any money - they can come and stay for free in the condo. They just have to pay to ski if they want it, dinner out or spa day, etc.
It has been a bit hard to find all my "wants" - on property (ski in ski out even), 2 bathrooms to make getting ready faster, not super super expensive, hot tub, will book single people, not scammy/asking me to go off the website to book, etc.
I found one and while a bit smaller than what we wanted (a 2BR but sleeps 6+), it's perfect. Contacted them and dates are available.
I just realized - no TV and no WiFi when I looked at the photos closely and read the listing again. Is this bad? Lodge has WiFi, restaurants/spa have WiFi. We could bring games and I guess some DVDs on a laptop.
My sister said people aren't going to want to waste their data all weekend. I thought maybe they could just use sparingly and use more when we go out to eat, if someone needs to check work email they could go to the coffee shop?
What's weird - I LOVE internet, but never thought to check. Don't want to disappoint ppl.
I don't think that is legal.
Depends on the state, but usually for an individual, privately-owned rental, lots of equal housing laws don't apply.
In this situation I think it's fine, although I would want to know ahead of time.
We go to my in laws lake house every year and they don't have wifi. The kids drove us crazy the first couple of years we've started bringing our own hotspot. For adults it's fine. Kids are a whole different story.
I couldn't care less about either. I actually prefer to unplug on vacation. I honestly can't recall any international trips I've taken where I had regular internet access and I've never minded. Anywhere in the US I can use my phone if it's that important to me.
I'd prefer no wifi and TV for a weekend like that. I did one in November - the only thing we used the TV for was yoga DVDs. Using a smidge of data to check email once or twice was not a big deal.
Unplugging is good for you. We played games, talked, drank a lot of wine. It was much better than staring at our phones.
I wouldn't care about the WiFi. Having a tv is nice though in case the weather is bad and you can't really do anything outside the condo. If that won't be an issue that I would be okay with that.
I wouldn't care about the WiFi. Having a tv is nice though in case the weather is bad and you can't really do anything outside the condo. If that won't be an issue that I would be okay with that.
I thought about that - it's walkable to the lodge and they have a spa, some mini golf, a pool, a roller rink haha, etc. and of course bars. And I guess we could go hot tubbing at the condo. And I think snow tubing and skiing pretty much run in any weather - although I'm not sure if there was a blizzard. Actually, if the weather was a blizzard, we'd have to postpone because of the mountain roads.
Sadly, in this day of global warming - I'm more afraid of a 60 degree rainstorm that cancels winter plans!
No tv is no issue, but I'd be bothered by the no wifi. I also wouldn't plan on using data all weekend as a lot of remote/vacation type houses have little to no signal. Just for the simple matter of looking up directions, etc. I'd want at least some signal.