Organizers, we would like to welcome your group when they arrive, and take a few minutes to go over these house rules with them. You may also wish to include these comfort and safety rules in your orientation package.

FRIENDLY CROSSWAYS HOUSE RULES

This is a 100 year old wooden structure. NO SMOKING anywhere inside the facility. This rule is STRICTLY ENFORCED. Butt buckets are provided outside at the end of the cement porch near the stairs.

 

The use of candles, except for religious services (talk with the managers first, please), incense, mosquito coils or any other fire or heat producing item is strictly forbidden anywhere in the facility.

 

Please do not eat anywhere other than the kitchen, dining room or outside although water may be taken into the conference room from the cooler in the dining hall.

 

Please do not store food in your rooms. It attracts bugs and chipmunks. You may label and store your food in the kitchen in the white refrigerator or on the shelves.

 

We have a Sustainable Living Center and we encourage you to cooperate in conserving resources. You can do this by: Taking short showers! Don't leave the faucet running when washing dishes or pots, or brushing teeth. Turning off bedroom lights when the rooms are not being used. Using our recycling and composting containers.

The hostel kitchen closes at 10 pm. Please be finished eating, cleaning and putting away dishes by then. The kitchen opens at 7 am. (This does not refer to groups who have exclusive use of the place.)

Lights out and quiet time in the common areas and dorm by 11 pm. (This does not refer to groups who have exclusive use of the place--you establish your own quiet times.)

The front wooden terrace acts like a noise funnel, so the hostel owners would appreciate it if you would not make noise on the terrace or cement walkway before 8 am or after 11 pm, especially on weekends.

Please return the bedroom you are staying in to its original condition, including "making" the bed neatly with the quilt after you have removed the sheets (NOT the mattress pad) and emptying your waste paper basket into the kitchen trash receptacle.

FRIENDLY CROSSWAYS AMENITIES

1. The telephone in the kitchen is for managers' use only. If it rings, please do not answer it. There is a pay telephone in the lobby for guests' use. A telephone jack is provided in the phone booth for internet access. Calls can be received on this phone (978 456 1238).

2. We have a commercial dishwasher. We will train a group of you--at least one person per each meal tht you are preparing--in using the dishwasher correctly. Please schedule a training time when you arrive.

3. There is a VCR player in the common room for your use if a group is not meeting in the room. Videos are located in the cabinet. The common room closes at 11 pm. (This does not refer to groups who have exclusive use of the place.)

4. There is a pool table and ping pong table in the rec room in the basement. Please ask for directions on how to get there. The rec room closes at 11 pm . (This does not refer to groups who have exclusive use of the place.)

5. Please allow us to start the fireplace. After the fire is started you may add wood to the fire until 10 pm. After that let the fire die down. Do NOT close the glass doors when the fire is burning.

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Friendly Crossways Youth Hostel & Conference Center

Mail: 247 Littleton County Road, Harvard MA -1451-1445

Phone: (978) 456-9386

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