Hi everyone,
For those with properties near the beach, do you provide beach towels and how does that work? How many towels do you provide and since guests use beach towels a whole lot more than bath towels, they're spending their days in and out of the ocean, how do you manage the refreshing of beach towels, are you expected to provide several extras, or access to your laundry facilities?
Hotels are much pricier and have their own systems where guests can swap almost any day, but I'm not charging US500 a night to account for all these extra services. Maybe I should charge more and provide three beach towels per guest, per week, and have a laundry service collect them (between three units that's a lot of beach towels).
With experience though, I'm learning the more items you put in the space, the more items you're chasing after for refunds when they go missing. I can't provide access to my exterior laundry room anymore for countless reasons but mostly sand breaking my machines and guests abandoning laundry to go to the beach for the day (my housekeeper also needs this room).
Guests are not accustomed to laundering sandy towels (dry completely and shake off sand is not on their holiday agenda), I just can't offer the amenity anymore, it's proving to cost a whole lot more than the cost-per-load. I'm curious what other hosts do, who live near sandy beaches and whose guests come primarily to be at the beach.
The Johnsons