Anonymous wrote: I travel with a coffee maker and am debating bringing it in checked luggage on a trip this summer. It's a thermal carafe. I need my coffee when I wake up and I don't want to get dressed to get it--defeats the purpose of vacationing.

Hello fellow coffee traveler! I have a travel pour over system that I use. Pack Yeti coffee mug, ground coffee, either collapsible or plastic coffee dripper, collapsible small kettle, and mini moos half and half and you have the best coffee and don't have to leave your room! Note: Be sure to have bottled water, unless you'll use from the sink.

Our vacation rental has chairs, umbrellas, coolers and beach towels. Anything else that we need we rent.

Have you ever actually flown anywhere? People don’t fly with tents, beach umbrellas, and chairs. The idea is absurd.

If you need to cart all that crap along, just drive to Ocean City and skip the flight.

Don't bring it with you, have it shipped on Amazon in time for your stay or rent locally. The former may actually be cheaper.

I'd rent chairs and an umbrella when I get there.

Anonymous wrote:You people are crazy. Any vacation home and many hotels will have these things for your use. Or yes, go to the local store and buy if you have to.

My Uncle has several beach rentals at the Jersey shore. He always goes down on Labor Day to be there for trash day that coming week. Tons of perfectly good beach chairs, umbrellas etc left out not he curb. He have furnished all his rentals with cast off purchases.

You people are crazy. Any vacation home and many hotels will have these things for your use. Or yes, go to the local store and buy if you have to.

Anonymous wrote:I bring something unusual, throw pillow covers. Slip them over the existing throw pillows, for the couch. Brightens up the place and too often, throw pillows in a rental house are pretty gross.

Funny, I always think about how gross the throw pillows are. Where do you get covers?

We bring dive bags, will throw a thin beach towel in. Trashy beach campouts with chairs, umbrellas, coolers and toys are declasse.

Anonymous wrote:If we fly to the beach, we either stay in hotels that provide these things or do a week long rental from a local chair/umbrella rental agency.

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If we fly to the beach, we either stay in hotels that provide these things or do a week long rental from a local chair/umbrella rental agency.