WELCOME TO · COAST 🌊
Duinzicht 12
📶 Wi-Fi & the basics
🔑 Arrival & check-in
🌊 Safe at the sea — tides & flags
🍽️ Our favourite spots
✅ Check-out & farewell
The complete, multilingual welcome book for your beach house — finished and ready, not an empty template. From Wi-Fi to tides and the tastiest fish stall: your guests find everything within seconds, and you get fewer messages and more 5-star reviews.
One-time · lifetime access · always editable in your Welcomap app
A personal intro from you as the host.
Address, key, parking — stress-free.
The most-asked info right at hand.
Tides, rip currents, beach flags, emergency numbers.
Your favourite beaches, routes & viewpoints.
Local favourites — not an anonymous list.
A great stay even when it rains.
A smooth departure + the door to a rebooking.
Flags: 🟢 green = safe · 🟡 yellow = caution, only up to your waist · 🔴 red = no swimming · 🔴🟡 red-yellow = supervised swimming area. Rip currents: don't swim against the current — swim parallel to the shore and raise your hand.
A free template (€7-12) stays an empty shell without coast-specific safety info on tides, rip currents and beach flags; a yearly guide app (~$99) rarely covers that depth either. Welcomap includes that coastal knowledge ready-made, multilingual and native-checked, for a one-time €19.
| What you get | Free/cheap template (€7-12) | Guide app (~$99/year) | Welcomap (€19 one-time) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ready to go — no filling it all in yourself | — | — | ✓ |
| Multilingual (up to 6 languages) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native-checked translation | — | — | ✓ |
| Themed safety guide (tides & flags) | — | — | ✓ |
| Detailed local coastal structure | — | — | ✓ |
| Editable without Canva or another program | — | — | ✓ |
| One-time — no subscription | ✓ | — | ✓ |
A free template gives you an empty skeleton you have to fill in and translate yourself. A guide app costs you again every year. Welcomap gives you the quality of the expensive option — finished, multilingual, with a safety guide — for a one-time price.
You fill in your own details in the Welcomap app — WiFi network and password, address, house rules and local tips — and see a live preview of your welcome book right away. After payment, you immediately receive the full, watermark-free PDF, ready to print or share. You can always go back to the app to make changes.
Every welcome book comes standard in Dutch, English and German — the three languages that cover most international guests. For €29 instead of €19, you can expand to all 6 languages, adding French, Spanish and Italian, ideal if you regularly welcome guests from those countries.
Yes, always — for free, as often as you like. At purchase you get a personal link to your book in the Welcomap app. Changed your WiFi password, updated a house rule, or found a new favourite restaurant? Open that link, update your details and download the new version right away — no Canva or other program needed.
Most hosts print the welcome book and leave it somewhere visible in the property, for example on the table or next to the keys. You can also add a QR code to the PDF or hang one up separately, so guests can open the book straight on their own phone — handy for anyone who'd rather not flip through a folder.
Rinse the area with seawater (never fresh water) and carefully remove any tentacle remnants with tweezers or a card. For severe pain, an allergic reaction, or a Portuguese man o' war sting: call 112 or go to the beach first-aid post.
This varies by beach and by season — some beaches are dog-free in summer or require a leash. Check the sign at the beach entrance or the local council's rules for the current situation on your specific beach.