Cottage Policies
Check out: 11:00 AM
Check in After 4pm (you can arrive anytime after 4pm)
Absolutely no late check out or early
check in without prior written permission from Rainier Cottages Staff
No Smoking OF ANY KIND Inside Any Cabin!***
Pets
ok at Vine Maple House, Squirrel Run and Mountain Peek, Little Elk and Bear;s Den only. They must be registered, $25 fee
Please clean up all poo from your pet, do not leave the alone in the cabin unless they don't bark and are
crated and crate trained. Don't bring pet who are not house trained, No cats please.
No pets at Indian Henry’s, Little Tahoma, Juniper, or Huckleberry.
Payment
Visa, MasterCard, or Discover
Payment is due when you make your reservation
Damage Deposit
We require a $250 damage deposit, which
will be refunded to you as soon as our housekeeping staff reports the cottage to be in good condition.** This will be held
on your booking payment card on check in day. No refund is dues as it’s just a hold on your card.
Please
make sure all dishes are clean and cabin is tidy upon your departure.
Fees will be charged if the cabin is excessively messy and takes the housekeeping staff
an exceedingly long time to service.
Damage deposit is held at the time you check in as a hold on your card,
and released once the cabin is found to be in good condition after your departure. It will not appear on your card unless
there are damages.
Check Out
Check out is at 11am. Please check out promptly at
11am, so that our housekeepers have time to prepare the cottage for the arriving guests.
Guests who leave after 11:30 am will be billed a $50 fee.
Guests departing after 12pm, will be charged for an extra night stay.
Departure Instructions
Dishes should be cleaned. Leaving the dishwasher running is fine.
Start a load of towels in the washer
for us. No sheets. Please start the washer, we will be in shortly.
Cabin should be tidy, garbage
picked up, toys and games put away.
Lock all the doors and windows.
Please leave the heat set to 50 degrees. Do
NOT turn all the heat off in the winter, as the pipes can freeze. In conditions below freezing you should leave the water
dripping in sinks (just barely) to keep pipes from freezing.
See further instructions at each cabin.
Extra Guests
2 – 4 guests are
included in the nightly cost of the cottage.
2 at Juniper and Vine Maple House. 4 at
Little Tahoma, Indian, Little Elk, Squirrel, Mountain, Huckleberry and Bear's Den
If
you will be having extra guests please let us know at the time you make your reservation. Each extra registered guest is $20/night.
Each extra guest who is not registered before your stay will be billed at $40/night.
We reserve
the right to check on our guest to ensure that our policies are being respected. Adults and children are all billed as extra
guests.
Cancellations
30 days advance notice for refund, minus a $50 cancellation fee.
Rescheduling/Changing dates are considered
a cancellation if dates do not re–rent inside the cancellation policy.
We will make every
effort to re-rent and refund money.
All cancellations must be confirmed with a cancellation number.
A reservation of 4 nights or more requires a 45 day in advance Cancellation
Sorry no refunds for early departures, adverse
road or weather conditions, power outages, electrical or appliance failures (including hot tubs), or other inconveniences
that are out of our control. You are booking a cabin in the mountains. Sometimes there are snowy conditions and power outages.
We will make sure you can stay warm and have running water. Please plan accordingly and watch weather reports.
The cabins are on well-maintained county roads. You usually won’t
need 4 wheel-drive to access cabins, roads are flat, plowed daily, and easy to access. However, Chains or 4 wheel drive are
often required in the winter months to access Mt. Rainier National Park. Chains can be rented in Ashford at Whittaker Mountaineering.
Holiday and Summer Rates Apply Memorial Day, June 20th - September, as well as Thanksgiving and
December 20th - January 1st.
All cottages require a minimum stay of two nights*.
Rates are subject to change and lodging
tax
Pet Policy:
Pets may only stay at Vine Maple House,
Little Elk, Squirrel Run, Mountain Peek or Bear's Den. No exceptions
Please no untrained pets,
must be potty trained with no issues or accidents
Please do not allow pets on furniture unless
you bring a blanket from home for them to lay on
Please don’t let pets sleep in the bed
unless you bring your own bedding for them to use
Must clean up all poop. Don’t
leave a mess for our next guests.
Sadly after many bad experiences we must ask NO CATS PLEASE, Dogs only
Excessive
pet messes and poop left in yard will be billed as an extra cleaning charge
Release From Liability
Registered guests, and all persons accompanying
registered guests, hereby accept responsibility for their personal property and safety and irrevocably release and hold harmless
The Cottages, and their owners from any liability whatsoever arising from loss, damage, or personal injury of any severity
due to theft or accident while on the premises or in the vicinity of rented lodging.
Privacy Policy
We
will never sell or trade any personal information of any customer.
*Occasionally space is available - please
email requests for shorter stays
**We reserve the right to charge a damage, cleaning, and smoking deposit subject
to the amount of stay & evict violators of policies without refund, and to require a minimum stay other than stated above
on any cottage, anytime.
***No smoking inside the cabins. This means: NO cigarettes, no cigars, no
marijuana, no smoking of any kind. If you smoke inside a cabin it is an automatic loss of your $250 deposit. You may smoke
out of doors as long as ALL ashes and butts are disposed of in an outdoor garbage can. Do not liter ashes and butts.