Things to know when staying at our place
Here we have listed some important details that you need to know when staying at our place. Below you can find some check-in details, house rules and instructions of how to use different accessories.
Location
We recommend using one of the following GPS solutions from your phone in order to easily reach our place. Just click on the links in order to see the itinerary to our exact location:
- Waze: Click Here
- Google Maps: Click Here
When you reach the location you will see a guitar house on the left side. Our gate is on the right side, it is black and it has the address on it : Str. Lupului Nr 76. You will also probably see our two Bernese Mountain Dogs running trough the yard. You can give us a call when you arrive and we will welcome you.
Check-in instructions
Here are some important things to note in the day of check-in, in order to have a smooth and enjoyable experience:
- Check-in is done starting with 15:00 PM. Check-out is done until 11:00 AM. We use this time interval to prepare the place for you and for the next guests therefore it is very important to us to respect this schedule.
- In the check-in day please let us know approximately your arriving hour so that we can prepare ourselves and the place accordingly.
- 90% of the time we will be at home for Check-in. If there are exceptions, we will send you more details.
- There are no stores near us. We recommend doing your shopping from Rasnov or on your way to us. See here our recommendations.
Our Dogs
Our dogs will be eager to meet you and play with you. However there are some aspects that we need you to consider during the stay:
- Our dogs are very sensible therefore please don’t feed them. If you want, you can only give them dog treat; no meat or other human food.
- We love both our dogs and cats but please don’t let them inside. As they can make a big mess inside or they can leave hair that can be very hard to clean afterwards
- Between the parking space and our garden we have a small gate. We use this gate so that the dogs can’t reach the parking space. Please don’t let the dogs to the parking space as they will run on the street as soon as you open the big car gate.
- On both Piece of Heaven and Piece of Dream you have small gates on the terrace. You can use them to limit the access of the dogs on the terrace. It is up to you if you want them to access your terrace but please be advise that they might steal unsupervised shoes/bags/food and so on.
You can play with them as much as you want, they are 100% gentle but please consider these above points.
Water
Our water source is a collection of natural springs. The water is drinkable according to the official tests performed on it. Please check the below picture with the complete set of analysis results. If you are sensible with some of these parameters than please use bottle water.
Hot water is generated by an electric water heater with 30l capacity, so if you like long hot showers, you might have to wait 20 minutes before using the shower again in order for the water to heat up again.
Local goodies
As we are located in the hearth of the nature, we are fortunate enough to have access to goodies straight from local producers. It doesn’t come more bio than that.
- Fresh Cheese, milk and dairy products: our neighbor is a local producer of these goods, therefore if you are interested in buying fresh dairy products we can give you more information.
- Traditional goods: one of our neighbors (local guide) is also a local, private producer of traditional goods such as pork meat, aged chees or local wine (Romanian terms: carne la garnita, telemea invechita). If you are interested in buying such products we can give you more information.
- Outdoor cooking: one of our neighbors (local guide) can offer a unique outdoor cooking experience, customized for your own food and drink preferences. If you are interested in food prepared outside on open fire, grill, stove, hob, with some local drinks around the fire, and some guitar accompaniment, please let us know and we can put you in contact with him to create your own customized and unique experience.
- Trout (Pastrav): Our nearby neighborhood is famous for it’s fresh trout (pastrav) farms and products. If you are interested in cooking and enjoying a fresh fish on the barbeque, just let us know and we can give you some recommendations where to buy these products.
Piece of Heaven particularities
Piece of Heaven is our tree-house experience and we have tried to provide all the basic amenities that we could. There are several key aspects that you need to know when staying in this cabin:
Heating
We have electric heating in the floor with a smart thermostat. You can use the thermostat to set the temperature. In very cold weather you will need to use also the provided fireplace (see info’s below)
We have a classic small wood fireplace. In the cold season there are several rules that needs to be applied in order to avoid any potential issues:
- Please always pay attention and used it with consideration for your safety. Remember that the house is made of wood, therefore manipulating the fireplace needs to be done carefully
- Please never place anything on top of the fireplace or near it.
- Use only the woods provided by us (under the bed) and the fire briquettes.
- Starting the fire:
- Place 2 fire briquettes into the fireplace and light them up
- Place 3/4 small wood pieces and 2/3 bigger wood pieces on top
- Make sure that the fire from the briquettes is reaching the wood
- Close the Fireplace door.
- Put bigger wood pieces periodically in order to keep the fire going
Terrace and Grill
The house has a small terrace but it also has a dedicated gazebo and a stone grill. If you want to use the grill you need to have some coals (you can buy coal bags from every market or gas station). We will provide some small woods and briquettes to start the fire and heat up the coals.
Shower Water
The shower has only one water tap for on/off. The temperature of the water is automatically set by a thermostat to 38 degree Celsius
Piece of Dream particularities
Piece of Dream is our newer place and we have tried to create it as intuitive as possible. However there are several key aspects that you need to know when staying in this cabin:
Fire place
We have an automated fire place that works on wood pellets. In the cold season there are several rules that needs to be applied in order to avoid any potential issues:
- Please never open the fireplace door except for cleaning and maintenance.
- Please never place anything on top of the fireplace or near it.
- Use only the thermostat to control the fire place
- Don’t use the fire place console nor change any settings of the fire/place
- Modifying the temperature is done only using the mobile white thermostat that will be presented to you at checking.
- Filling up the fireplace: Once a day or depending on the outside temperature you need to fill up the fire place with wood pellets.
- Only do this operation when the fireplace is cold and not running
- The fire place can be filled up on the cap above the fire place
- You will find the wood pellets on the terrace special compartment
Terrace and Grill
You can use the terrace to relax and/or grill using our Gas Grill. When using it please do it with safety fire consideration as the entire cabin is made of wood. The same request would be for smoking activities on the terrace.
Other things to note
- We have two Bernese Mountain Dogs on the property, very friendly and energetic, eager to play with you.
- We are 6 km outside Rasnov, 1 km Unpaved Road in decent condition, accessible to all standard cars.
- The cabins are located in our Back Yard, therefore the access is done trough our front yard where we have our family home.
- No pets allowed
- Smoking only outside or on the terrace
- No parties with loud music allowed. We respect our environment and neighborhood by avoiding noise pollution.
- If you want to play with the dogs, depending on the weather, you might need some appropriate clothes.
- Heating is done via fireplace therefore small effort is necessary from your side in order to add fuel for the fire.
- Warm water is done via electric water heaters which are able to provide sufficient water for a shower every 20 minutes.