Vacation Cottages

[PatrickXavier]

We're looking at coming out to Brooklin in summer for some WBS courses. Am arranging accommodation over the internet through Vacation Cottages (which advertises a number of properties as being "close to The WoodenBoat School"), but was surprised to discover Vacation Cottages has no credit card facility or street address. (It seems to share a fax number and PO Box with Town & Country Realtors at 1 Music Library Lane, Blue Hill.) Can anyone vouch for Vacation Cottages as a real business entity, and not some local version of the Nigerian 411 scam?

[elf]

Maine? Nigerian scam?

Seems unlikely, but what do you find out about T&C Realtors in Blue Hill?

[elf]

Mapquest reports that T&C Realtors has three offices down there, 3 women holding down the fort for the winter, trying to line up their summer rentals. Probably working out of their houses.

doesn't sound like something I'd be suspicious of. It's Maine in the winter.

[PatrickXavier]

Thanks, Elf: it got slightly weirder when the Blue Hill office of T&C disappeared from its website (http://www.tcreal.com/).

[jackster]

Town & Country main office is in Ellsworth, Maine 207 667-7557 (800)487-5754. Has offices in;
Bangor
Dover-Foxworth
Belfast
Camden
Blue Hill
N. Hamden
Unity
Pittsfield
Skowhegan and
Rockland

[elf]

Looks like normal RE company to me. I would be more concerned about paying the realtor's fees with them, than with finding them vanishing into the fog!

[Dave Lesser]

The WoodenBoat School publishes a list of cottages and homes in close proximity for rent by individuals during the school term. We rented a place from the list last year and found it to be quite satisfactory. Check with Kim at the school to get a copy of the list. On the other hand, the people who stayed at the Mountain Ash dorm all seemed to enjoy it there.

[Greg Stoll]

Why stay at a cottage? Staying at the WoodenBoat School in one of their houses is a great part of the experience. I went in 2004 and I'm going back again in August.

Unless you have all your family coming with you, stay at WBS. It's absolutely worth it.

Greg

[Tom Robb]

I stayed at the WB school yeas ago. I got all the barracks experience I care for in the service and found it a bit more uncomfortably cosy than my hopelessly introverted psyche is happy with. YMMV.
If you're the Hale Fellow Well Met sort, you may love it.