HAMPTON — Nick Anzalone and his girlfriend, Jessie Kalish, have been living on Hampton Beach together for a couple years now. Whenever they go away for vacation, they always notice one big difference in their destinations and the tourist spot that they call home in New Hampshire.

HAMPTON — Nick Anzalone and his girlfriend, Jessie Kalish, have been living on Hampton Beach together for a couple years now. Whenever they go away for vacation, they always notice one big difference in their destinations and the tourist spot that they call home in New Hampshire.

“Wherever we’re at, in Florida, say, and upstate New York, we always saw they had a scooter rental in those vacation towns,” Anzalone said. “And so we noticed in the last couple years there hasn’t been one in Hampton or Seabrook, so we thought it was a good idea.”

The couple began thinking seriously about opening a scooter rental of their own, and after a year of planning they opened Scoot-N-Around Seabrook Scooter Rentals, LLC, right next to Castaway’s in the Seabrook Beach Village District at 210 Ocean Blvd, in Seabrook.

The shop official opened on Mother’s Day weekend but it had what they considered a grand opening on Memorial Day weekend.

The single-seat black scooters and the green, low-riding, two-seated scooters, called “Scoot Coupes,” are registered with license plates, meaning that, upon renting one, you can drive it directly into the road and join the beach traffic that rolls through Seabrook, over the bridge and on the main stretch of Ocean Boulevard.

So far the most successful form of advertisement has been for Anzalone and Kalish to take the scooters out and drive down the strip themselves. Kalish came up with the idea while she and Anzalone were waiting to open the shop on Mother’s Day. When they took the scooter out that sunny day, beachgoers swarmed them asking who they were and where they could get one of their own. Since then, it’s been their main form of advertisement.

“I was driving it around the other day, and I felt like a celebrity,” Kalish said. “Everyone was staring at me, taking pictures of me, yelling at me …; When we got home — I didn’t have my phone right on me, it was in my bag — I had six missed phone calls of people just looking at the scooter. I was like, that’s a great way to advertise.”

The couple originally tried to put the shop in Hampton, but they found it difficult to find a space to legally accommodate the scooters. They’re satisfied with the location they ended up with, though. It provides plenty of visibility for people driving up the coast from south of the New Hampshire border.

“The thing we love about this location is that everybody who comes from Massachusetts up to Hampton Beach has to pass us,” Anzalone said.

To make a reservation on a rental, call (603) 380-3966. You can visit them on their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/SeabrookScooterRentals for more information.

The store’s hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday.

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