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House Rules for Holiday Cottages

The best house rules for a holiday cottage are ones that ensure guests can relax and enjoy their holiday while knowing being confined by draconian terms or doing something unwittingly naughty. Having a clear set of do's, don'ts, and responsibilities also make it much easier to deal with problems that may arise. Use this template of 'acceptable' rules from Lodgify to identify those that you feel will be relevant to your own holiday cottage.

A good policy to adopt is working to create a set of house rules that, if anything goes wrong, don't leave a good relationship between an owner and their guest still intact (and likely to return) without either party feeling hard done by. Not easy - but this list may help! Above all, they not only apply to an owner's expectation of guest behaviour but also set out what the guest can rightfully expect from a property's owner.

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