Comments on: Is Your Vacation Rental Home Family Friendly?

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By: Lake of the Ozarks Real Estate

Lake of the Ozarks Real Estate — Tue, 18 May 2010 02:45:03 +0000

I’ve got 4 kids with the youngest being 10 months. More than anything in the rental unit, I always find what’s outside to be the most daunting. Sometimes it will be a small creek at the bottom of the hill, or a steep drop-off in the backyard. I feel like I can handle the inside – it’s the outside that scares me.

By: adam@Potty Training Girls

adam@Potty Training Girls — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:19:03 +0000

The most unfriendly family vacation rental properties are the ones that have those marble coffee tables with the sharp corners right in the middle of the living room! Note to anyone renting to families: Do not buy anything with sharp corners, or you could have a lawsuit on your hands! Just my two cents - thanks for the post! adam@Potty Training Girls's last blog post..Baby Potty Training Tips

By: BABYBJORN BabySitter Balance

BABYBJORN BabySitter Balance — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:43:13 +0000

Wow! Never thought some places had so many equipments ready. This would surely help lessen the burden we have to carry when travelling with Kristine and Kyle. Bouncy chair is one thing we wish we could always have when travelling.

By: Safety first baby monitor

Safety first baby monitor — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:41:08 +0000

Awesome. I think monitoring your own child will be much better than relying on the machine or someone else. BTW, this is my personal opinion. Safety first baby monitor's last blog post..Drawing as an Expressive Media of the Child

By: CottageGuru

CottageGuru — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:44:05 +0000

Margaret – thanks for your comments. Your point about differing attitudes is interesting. We experience this in our neck of the woods where all our properties are waterfront. Our owners wouldn’t dream of creating fenced areas to prevent children from venturing into the water – it’s a natural environment – yet we had a complaint last year about ‘the dangers to my child of a boat dock being unfenced – she could have fallen in the water at any time’. It caused a great deal of amusement in the office at the time but also highlighted a creeping attitude from a, thankfully small, element of the rental population that responsibility for any actions of their children rests with the vacation rental owner. Reminds me of the possibly apocryphal tale of the mother who sued a furniture store owner because she fell over a small child who was running around the store, and broke her ankle. This was made even more ridiculous when it was revealed the child was her own.

By: Margaret Leach

Margaret Leach — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:33:27 +0000

I think a lot of families with young children want to know most of all that children are welcome. That the owner will not be worrying about dirty finger marks or noisy games all the time. That the answer to the vague question about child friendliness is not ‘Yes, if……’

It is also worth bearing in mind that child safety measures required vary enormously between countries and even between families. We have most of the gear on that long list available to borrow but we don’t provide covers for electric sockets nor have we ever been asked to. Nor guards around hot plates. Nor are most of our gardens childproof.

Yet we have increasing numbers of families with babies and very young children renting our apartments each year, including many from the UK. In continental Europe, we find that parents take a more responsible attitude to keeping and eye on their children than Brits do and do not expect their children to be insulated from every possible danger.