Located inside the gated community of Lakeside, Ohio, Blue Boat Home is a great place for extended families or groups of friends to re-connect. With 4 screened porches, 3 living rooms, 2 kitchens and large side yard with three 8-person picnic tables, you will find lots of places to gather together or spend time apart. Only week-long Friday to Friday reservations accepted from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Shorter stays and weekend stays available in September. BEDROOMS AND SLEEPING: This 2-story home has 2 bedrooms on the first floor with a full bath with small tub. 4 bedrooms upstairs with 2 full baths with showers. Each bedroom has a double bed. The front room on the 2nd floor (Gray room) has a double bed and double/twin bunk. With the addition of the sleeping porch, double futon in the upstairs living room and queen sofa sleeper in the main floor living room, this cottage can sleep up to 20 guests. As is the Lakeside tradition, SHEETS AND TOWELS ARE NOT INCLUDED. Each bed has a bed has a duvet and pillows. Please bring your own bedroom linens and bath and kitchen towels. KITCHENS: Upstairs kitchen has a stove, oven, microwave and refrigerator, coffee maker, toaster. Main kitchen has the same, plus a dishwasher and full-size washer/dryer. There is also a crock pot, blender and hand crank ice cream maker. COOLING: 6 wall unit ACs and over a dozen ceiling fans keep the rooms cool on the hottest and muggiest lake days as long as you keep the doors shut. TECHNOLOGY: The only screens at BBH are the ones on the porches and windows. There are no televisions, cable or satellite. However, the cottage is equipped with wifi, so guests can bring their own screens for streaming if they can't live a week without them! OTHER FEATURES: Blue Boat home is located on a rare double lot just South of the corner of 5th and Walnut. The house occupies the North side of the lot, leaving the tree shaded South yard open for three 8-seat picnic tables and lots of space for yard games. For rainy days and buggy nights, BBH also has 4 screened porches: the wrap-around porch on the main level, game porch on the South side off the family room, sleeping porch upstairs and a 4th porch off the 2nd floor living room. ACCESSIBILITY: This cottage is over 100 years old! Passages and doorways are narrow as was common to that era, so BBH is not wheelchair accessible.