The more summer advances, the freer some of the more apprehensive visitors now are to step their toes back into vacation as the pandemic numbers wane. Quite a few started asking in April how they could be assured that their weekly rental in June would be clean after the last family left. Quelling that COVID-era concern and others, rental agencies have taken steps that make the check-in process a little different this year.

This is the summer of the 4 p.m. check-in., not 10 or 11 a.m.