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Welcome to Rec Base Your place to Rest, Explore, Create. Whatever your purpose is in coming here, you are sure to feel refreshed and renewed by the end of your stay. “And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” John Muir. We are available to help you out by text or phone while you enjoy your stay here, but we are in Calgary and so we will require a minimum three-hour drive to reach you. We hope that the following tips will help you to have a relaxing, stress-free stay! Parking Please feel free to park on the north side Emergency Numbers and of the house and in between our shop and the house. There should be ample Contacts parking for you and your visitors. If you need to maximize parking, you can angle Hope - 403-993-0368 park against the deck on the north side Darcy - 403-874-6503 of the house. Email - [email protected] Please don’t park west or south of our Rocky Mountain House Hospital house as that is our septic field and it (403) 845-3347 won’t help anyone to have your vehicle there. :-) Rocky Gas Co-op 1-866-845-2766, (403) 845-2766 Locks Police - 911 You’ve managed to open the front gate and the main cabin! Welcome to your space. Please keep the keys that you found in the lock box on the key rack just inside the north door, so that you don’t lose them during your stay. silverwds.ca Thank you to Roberta Davies of Silver Words for her help with editing. “I do words. Words are my thing. Whether you need help with your website content, or maybe messaging for social media, or even an old fashioned flyer; I can help.” Septic Tank Fireplace The property’s plumbing operates on a This fireplace generates a lot of heat. septic tank, so there are some Once you get it going the temperature considerations to keep in mind. of the cabin will go up substantially. You may need to open a window to cool o. ● Please don’t flush anything more Make sure to let your fire die out before than a reasonable amount of leaving the property. Don’t build a toilet paper and your natural roaring fire just before you leave. waste. ● Tampons, feminine hygiene Making a great fire: products, hair, food, tissue, napkins, paper towels, condoms, 1. Open the flue/damper. q-tips, cotton balls, wipes are not 2. Start small; use paper and tolerated by our septic tank. kindling. ● Please don’t even flush “flushable” 3. Once the kindling is going, place or “septic safe” items. one log inside, shut the door almost all the way, just don’t latch We appreciate your help with this as it it. saves us a lot of money in maintenance 4. Let it develop a good bed of and allows us to oer our rental at a ashes. When that log is burning reasonable price. well you can add another and shut and latch the door and close the damper to your desired level. Well Water The property uses well water. This water Garbage can sometimes be discoloured. For longer stays / messy garbage: We have provided fresh Calgary water for If you are here for a longer stay and your stay that can be used for drinking need to take out the garbage, we have a and cooking. garbage can in our playhouse (the unfinished structure just right of the The well water has been tested and is wood shed). You are welcome to leave safe to use for household cleaning, your garbage in there, just please make showers, hand washing, toothbrushing sure the latch is secure. and even drinking. You can consume it if you’d like. I prefer Calgary water. :-) For shorter stays, you can secure the bag of garbage and leave it in the hallway by the door and we will take it out when we come to clean. Inside is better than outside, anything left outside will be torn apart by birds, etc. Rec Base Home Rules As your hosts, we aim to make your stay as comfortable as it can possibly be! Our mission is to help our guests create beautiful family memories while they relax and rejuvenate in our comfy cabins. To achieve this we would truly appreciate it if you can follow these house rules. ● Parking is allowed only on the ● Visitors are welcome, as long as north side of the house and they obey the house rules. between the shop and house. ● We strive to show respect to our Please do not park or drive on the neighbours in the area and ask grass, including OHV’s. that you adhere to a quiet time ● Please respect the following places beginning at 11:00 p.m. We that are designated O Limit understand that the surrounding Areas: area gets loud during the summer - the Septic Field, south and long weekends, but we have found east of the house (walking this to be a quiet place and we on it is okay) want to preserve this. Quieter - the roadway running north living is more attractive to the and south on the east end local wildlife and increases your of the property chances for amazing wildlife - anything that is locked spotting. - climbing on any of our ● Fires are allowed in the indoor buildings wood stove (abundant wood ● Clean shoes are allowed in the provided). The excessive winds house but not on the furniture. have discouraged us from building / providing an outdoor ● Your pets are welcome, but they fire pit. should stay o the couch and beds. Please pick up after your ● In relation to the high winds that pet and dispose of their waste in can come up, please make sure the garbage at the end of your outside items are secured before stay. going to bed at night. We would ● If the trampoline is set up, you are hate for something to go flying welcome to use it, but you do so at and break your car window. your own risk. Children under 12 ● Please keep your snacks and food should be supervised by a to the dining room, kitchen and responsible adult. decks. There should be no food or ● Smoking is not permitted inside drinks in the little cabins or the any of our buildings. Extra fees to bedroom of the Main Cabin. remove odor and stains may be applied. ● Please note that occasionally, we may leave consumables such as ● If you would like to host an event condiments or snacks left behind (i.e. wedding, graduation, party), by previous guests. We try our very please speak with us about it first. best to ensure that it is not Guests that have had a party expired or stale. However, it is up without host permission, which to the guests' discretion and results in extra cleaning, guests whether to consume these items. will be responsible for extra The host does not take any cleaning charges. responsibility for the ● To keep your belongings safe and consumables. secure, before you leave, for any amount of time, make sure to shut ● If you use the BBQ, take note that the windows, lock them and it is missing one wheel at the back enforce them with the wood that is and is propper up. Please clean it provided at each window. Lock when done. the doors to all the cabins, if you have had access to them. Also, ● You are welcome to do an lock the gate when you leave. appropriate amount of laundry Extinguish any candles or fires in for the length of your stay. All the wood stoves. Turn o all of the towels and bedding will have been lights, including the ones under freshly washed upon your arrival. the kitchen cupboards. ● We are on a septic tank and so there are some considerations to ● Please let us know if there are any keep in mind. Please don’t flush damages, accidental or otherwise, anything more than a reasonable to any of our kitchen items, amount of toilet paper and your household property or buildings. natural waste. Tampons, feminine Damages and breakages will be hygiene products, hair, food, assessed according to the tissue, napkins, paper towels, agreement. Our main concern will condoms, q-tips, cotton balls, be to stabilize unsafe furniture wipes are not tolerated by the and replace kitchen items as septic tank. Please don’t even needed in time for our next flush “flushable” or “septic safe” guests. items. We appreciate your help with this as it saves us a lot of ● If guests are suspected of money in maintenance and allows carrying and/or using illegal us to oer our rental at a drugs of any kind, the authorities reasonable price. will be engaged, and guests will be asked to vacate the property ● Please don’t rearrange the immediately. furniture inside the cabins. You ● Please do not use firearms of any may rearrange the furniture kind on our property. outside on the deck, but please put those items back where you ● As this is an AirBnB, and our home found them at your checkout. away from home, please be respectful of the property and our ● The Main Cabin has a large belongings, follow the checkout garbage under the kitchen sink as guidelines before leaving. well as one smaller one in each bathroom. You can use these for ● Check out time is at 1:00 p.m. on food that you would normally the day of your departure.