Fireworks over the water, and no drive home after them.

3 nights

$3,424

Cleaning

$300

Maryland tax (11%)

$410

Booking platform service fee

none

Total

$4,134

Split 20 ways

$207

Same nightly rate as our Evolve listing. Booking here removes the platform's service fee at checkout.

30% is due at booking and the balance 3 days before you arrive, so you are not asking anybody for their share months ahead.

Master suite.

Reachable without steps from the parking area, like bedrooms 2 and 3.

Bedroom 2.

Just past the big downstairs living room — the one with the 75-inch television.

Bedroom 3.

Just past the big downstairs living room — the one with the 75-inch television.

Bedroom 4.

The giant windows and the best Bay views in the house — the biggest window anywhere in it. The queen sofa bed is the fifth of the five, moved in here to leave the upstairs living room open.

Bedroom 5.

The mother-and-child room: a queen and a twin, with its own door like every bedroom here. The Jack and Jill it shares with bedroom 6 puts the adult next door to the children.

Bedroom 6.

Its own door onto the landing — the two rooms are joined by the Jack and Jill between them, not by a doorway. Three twins, so it is the room most groups give the children, with an adult next door in bedroom 5. Or however your group wants to use it.

Living rooms.

Two downstairs and two upstairs. Not bedrooms: these eight sleep in shared living space, and that is the real limit on privacy here.

Said plainly, because it decides who is happy on Saturday: 14 of those are real beds and the last ten sleep on queen sofa beds. Four of those sofa beds are in the living rooms and the fifth is inside bedroom 4, so sixteen sleep behind a bedroom door and eight do not. A group of 24 is not 24 people in bedrooms. Nobody sleeps in the barn.

For anyone who cannot manage stairs: the master is on the main floor with its own bath, and entry from the parking area is step-free. We do not claim ADA compliance — ask the chat for any measurement you need.

4 full baths and 1 half. The master has its own, and bedrooms 5 and 6 share a Jack and Jill upstairs. The half bath takes daytime traffic so nobody queues behind a shower.

The two main-floor queens share a full bath off the small hall between them. It has its own door onto that hall, so it is not a Jack and Jill — the Jack and Jill is upstairs, between bedrooms 5 and 6.

Spare towels are in the linen closet in that same small hall, beside the two main-floor queen bedrooms and just outside the downstairs full bath.

Two 50-gallon water heaters, so back-to-back showers hold up for a full house. With all 24 in, stagger the early birds and the night owls and nobody hits a cold one.

Two washers and two dryers, so a full house can run two loads at once.

• Baltimore — about 2 hours 30 minutes
• Washington, DC — about 2 hours 40 minutes
• Philadelphia — about 3 hours
• Annapolis — about 2 hours
• Salisbury — about 1 hour 20 minutes

The shop. The nearest full grocery is the Walmart Supercenter in Cambridge, 29 miles and about 40 minutes out, so stock up on the way in. Easton is bigger if the list is long, about an hour away. The General Store on the island is 5 miles and covers what you forgot, not the week's food.

Eating out. Old Salty's Restaurant is 3.6 miles up the road. Everything else worth the drive is in Cambridge.

If something goes wrong. Nearest emergency department: University of Maryland Shore Regional Health at Cambridge, 715 Cambridge Marketplace Blvd., open 24 hours. Call 911 first. Easton has a larger hospital about an hour away. A volunteer fire station on the island, about 10 minutes away.

Signal. High-speed Wi-Fi throughout the house and yard. It does not reach the Flex Barn — the metal walls block it, which makes the barn an accidental tech-free room. Coverage on the island is workable but not uniform across carriers. Ask the chat before you commit if the trip depends on it.

Cancelling. Cancel 14 or more days before check-in and you receive a full refund of everything you have paid, including the deposit, cleaning fee and taxes. Cancellations within 14 days of check-in are non-refundable.

The group shrinking or growing. The rate is for the house rather than per person, so losing two people does not change what you owe — it changes what each remaining share costs. Going over 24 overnight is the one thing that is not possible.

Minimum stay. 2 nights.

Dogs. Up to 2, no cats, $150 once for the stay rather than per dog.

Arriving and leaving. Check-in from 4 PM, check-out by 10 AM. Early check-in and late check-out are not offered, because the turnaround between groups needs the whole window.