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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Upton, MA/Alton Bay
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My wife and I reserved a 22' pontoon boat with Bay Side in Alton Bay. I reserved the boat a little over a week ago now. I had to call from a satallite phone because I work on ships and didn't have access to a landline, so there is a long pause on the phone. Well when I called I explained this, and immediately they were getting aggravated with me for having a pause in my phone.
I was finally able to reserve the boat using my credit card and I asked a simple question about they're cancellation policy. As soon as I asked the question the gentleman I was speaking with handed the phone to the owner. He informed me in a rude tone that there was absolutely NO cancellation policy, which is fine, I was just curious... We just got a call from Bay Side telling us that the boat won't be available for rent, when we asked why they said because there are 'engine problems' I worked at a boat yard for 3 years and we never once had an engine problem that we couldn't fix in 2 weeks, even if we didn't have the parts on hand, and especially if it was a rental that was income for the boat yard. So now we are stuck with a long weekend vacation to the lake with no boat? I called a few other places but no luck, one place had a 1992 18' boat they would rent for 250! I hope this is just a single occurance with Bay Side and they don't treat all they're customers like this. I know I'll never be going back there. Does anyone know of any last minute rentals available for pontoon boats over 21' or so? Sorry for the rant! |
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Piston....
Call Bob over at Anchor Marine! They are great! I keep my boat there and he usually has plenty of rentals... tell him Woodsy sent ya! 603-366-4311 Woodsy PS: I keep my boat there... great place, awesome staff!
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: NH Seacoast and Smith's Cove
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Try Fays -
http://www.faysboatyard.com/rentals.html
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Goodhue and Hawkins boatyard in Wolfboro are great people to deal with. Not sure if any are available, but They have plenty of rental boats.
Dan |
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Do you still want to go to the Bay Side, with or w/o another boat ? Seems to me their "no cancellation" policy got cancelled when they reneged on their part of the contract ... that is to provide you a boat.
Thurston's at the Weirs also rents pontoon (and other boats) ... http://www.thurstonsmarina.com/Rentals.html Some other marina info for you ... http://www.weirsonline.com/boat_rentals.htm
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Piston,
That is too bad that the rental got messed up- good luck getting a replacement and have a great vacation |
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Give Shep Browns a call 603-279-4573
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Any places to rent a sailboat other than Fay's Boat Yard ?
Nothing against Fays', just looking for options ! Thanks, BD |
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We got one....sort of. Well we called around to a bunch of different places and eventually ended up with a brand new 24' Toon boat from Winnisquam Marine (rental not purchase
![]() One side question, it didn't say anything about not allowing dogs on rental boats but do you think they would mind us bringing our 3 dogs on the boat with us? I'm not sure what the proper 'etiquette' for that is? I don't want to leave the dogs at the house for the day but I'm afraid to ask in case they say no ![]() Thanks to all for your suggestions ![]() |
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Most places that rent pontoon boats do not allow pets on board. To me, they should allow them with an additional cleaning fee as I do understand their issues with wet dogs and hair on the carpet, it's a bear to vacuum it out!
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