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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Get there early so you can pick a decent room.[/b]

Pack some baby powder for ease of getting sand off of you after leaving the beach.

Like pp said, figure out a chore list and dinner menus at the onset.

A large group will have different schedules. Don't wait around for everyone to get ready before heading out to the beach. You'll lose a lot of time and get resentful. Instead, suggest some group activities for when everyone is available, but also carve out your own time. If you're going to Rehoboth, parking near the beach is free before 10am and we're early morning people so this works great for us. We'd get a couple of hours in while everyone is just waking up and getting ready back in the house.

Bring play cards and other group games for the evenings or down time. [/quote]

Ugh. I'd like to hear how others have managed this. . . .should it truly be on a first dibs basis?   [/quote]

I have done this almost a dozen times with big groups of friends and family. The couple with the person who actually made the reservations/handled collecting the money/put their names on everything got first dibs in every case.[/quote]

We always give the best room to my brother and SIL because she's more high maintenance than the rest of us (I say that with love; I really like her).  So it makes it easier on everyone if SIL has the master bedroom with its own bathroom.  Small gestures like that to keep the happiness level high are important.  Otherwise, I always think that the oldest people get the best room.

We never do chore charts.  The rule is that you pick up after yourself and your own family.

I agree with all the PPs who say that you need a mix of group time and alone time.

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We always had one couple in the group that would try to get to the house first and claim the master, or call everyone on the way to the house and plead why they should get the master.  While DH and I always gave up the better rooms to others and took the room like the bunkbed room because we committed to the house last, etc. The same couple did things like bring a small bottle of Trader Joe's hotsauce for their family and take it back to their room after they were done with it so they didn't have to share it with others.  We are no longer friends with that couple.  :oops:  [/quote]

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