When you start renting our your vacation home short-term on websites like Airbnb and Booking.com, house manual for your vacation rental is a must. The house manual will be of great help both to your guests in using the accommodation and to you in the smooth running of vacation rental business. In this article, we have prepared 7 tips for you on what to include in the house manual for your holiday accommodation.
1. Parking
Include all important parking information and specify exactly where your guests can park. If you have parking spaces associated with your property, clearly mark and identify which space is theirs.
2. Parties and quite hours
To avoid complaints from neighbors, establish rules against excessive noise and set quite hours. Parties and gatherings always come with the risk of loud noise that will drive your neighbors crazy and a mess that you want to avoid at all costs. Therefore, it is better to add the rule “no parties” to the list of house rules.
3. Check-in and check-out
Make it clear to guests that they must adhere to the set check-in and check-out times, and add additional guidelines on what guests must do when they leave the property.
4. Pets
Consider whether you allow pets in your accommodation. Many people travel with their furry friends these days, so it makes sense to consider allowing them and setting up an additional pet fee. This can help increase your bookings. If you will not allow them, clearly define this in the house rules and inform the guests about it in time.
5. Use of Devices
Make sure that you have instructions for the use of any devices, saunas and similar things in the accommodation, and do include them in the house manual and communicate them to the guests in advance.
6. Smoking
Mark your accommodation with anti-smoking signs and identify any places where smoking is allowed. Provide ashtrays and communicate smoking guidelines to your guests in the house rules.
7. Garbage and recycling
Many facilities have specific rules regarding waste disposal and recycling. Be sure to include details in your house rules about how your guests should separate their trash and where exactly they should dispose of it.