You know best what to pack, but there are a few extra items we find folks sometimes forget:
- Sheets (for our queen memory-foam mattress, we provide a mattress bag and padded top), pillowcases (we provide pillows), towels and wash cloths. If you’d rather not pack these, please ask our booking agent at Mann and Sons how you can rent and have a bag waiting for you when you arrive. Or pick up what you need at a shop on Route 1. The Home Goods store is at Route 1 and Dartmouth Drive.
- Shampoos, conditioners, body washes and soaps. We periodically toss whatever guests leave behind to avoid clutter. RB Convenience is at Rehoboth Avenue and 1st Street, in case you need extras.
- Beach chairs and an umbrella, though during the summer season you can rent them from the kiosks on the beach, or you can pick up inexpensive ones at local shops, many open year round, especially over on Rehoboth Avenue. The shop in our building is only open seasonally. When you leave, please take them with you, as we’ll toss anything left behind.
- Salt, pepper, cooking oil, butter, dish soap and dish towels — you know, the basics. We periodically toss out any food items our guests leave behind. National supermarket chains are out on Route 1 in Suffolk County, but we prefer to leave the car in the garage and walk to these, in order of near to far:
- Open only in high season, Sammy’s Market in the Brighton Suites Hotel, corner of Wilmington and 1st, offers a decent selection of the basics.
- Aladdin Market over on Baltimore at the alley between Theo’s and The Pines is a Middle Eastern grocer worth checking out — all the olives and stuffed grape leaves you’ll ever need.
- For great Italian groceries and prepared foods, Frank and Louie’s, also on Baltimore, near 2nd, isn’t open every day, and you’ll need to check their menu and pantry list online first, then call to place an order (no walk-ins).
- We hear (March 2025) that a new in-town (high end) grocer will open soon at the corner of Baltimore and 2nd. We’re thinking leeks and artichokes and arugula and such, but let’s wait and see!
- Out by the traffic circle on Rehoboth Avenue, near the canal and museum, is Royal Farms, which has pretty much everything you’d expect from a gas station shop, except no gas pumps.
A theme you may have noticed above — we toss anything you leave behind, with RARE exception. It’s a small unit, so our focus has been on keeping it as clean, open, and uncluttered as possible. It’s what our guests consistently tell us they like best about 807!
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