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Agree 100%. We’d all object to a host who said “All guests who are [insert minority or group] always do [insert undesirable behaviour]”
Yet it seems sometimes that hosts sometimes discriminate against smokers, those asking for discounts, young, people, old people, children, babies, fat people, guests wanting early check in /late checkout, anyone from another country… the list goes on.
I still remember the (short-lived) poster here who wouldn’t allow pregnant guests. 
Those whom you asked to pay the extra night and they refused… how did it work out? did they go elsewhere, did they just come at the right time or did you give them free early check-in.
Really? Did they say what about being pregnant was objectionable as a guest?
Did they think the world was overpopulated and thought getting pregnant was a sign of irresponsibility? 
I believe it was the same host who wouldn’t have fat people so I’m assuming that he had substandard furniture that couldn’t take the weight.
Yes.
There was also an Aussie host who flat out stated he wouldn’t accept gay people.
They are both out of business now best I can tell.
lol, ok i’m generalising. but from personal experience this pretty much true. in all my life of going to events/clubbing never once did i go #2 whilst out.
I’ve no objections to men peeing in the fields on our farm. but this event won’t have men.
she hasn’t responded yet.
the others i just said the thing about previous guest checkout time is 10am… and left it there. we’ve had these types before, it’s a hook up. they won’t book the night before because they can’t stay overnight (either it’s an affair or they are from a conservative culture that frowns on this)
In their messages, one can read if it is a request or an entitled attitude. There is always a better guest around the corner.
I’m on IB with no requirements whatsoever because I accept anyone without discrimination. But I don’t want entitled, clueless, cheap people. They are not protected classes of people under the law where I operate.
Part of the reason hosts discriminate against young people, old people, and people with kids is their listings are not suited for people in that category. You get a guest who is not suited for your listing, and your chances of getting a bad review increase.
I use IB too with no requirements and I’ve never ever had entitled, clueless, cheap people.
That’s EVER.
I’m more worried about someone getting hurt.
well you are blessed. Although it’s a rare breed who has all of those in one, but I had 2 sisters + infant+ dog rent my 3 bedroom cottage, and use 4 beds, leave dog pee on the rug and some kind of red stickiness on a doona cover on the 4th bed (not slept in but certainly climbed on or perhaps used to change nappies on), gave herself late check out, AND she complained afterwards about my review which wasn’t terrible!, told me she was entitled to use every bed and she didn’t see the wee (at least was wise enough to not deny it). she’d complained about the dog fee so I waived it.
entitled ✓
clueless ✓
cheap ✓
I am. Although I think that the fact that I’m right there on the spot makes a lot of difference - I stamp out any poor behaviour more or less immediately.
Mind you, I think that the experience of two hundred years helps too. (Well, it feels like it).
Although I’ve never had entitled, clueless and cheap guests I’ve certainly had my fair share of weirdos!
Sorry to cherry pick your post, but why have multiple beds available for a set price, and then complain they are used?
not a set price, and i know every one has a different opinion here on that, but she didn’t pay for the infant, who slept in the bed with her, well she promised that. there was NO NEED to ruin 2 single beds as well.
She did not pay market value for a 3 room cottage that sleeps 6 people, she paid our base rate of 2 people (on the assumption you’d occupy 1 room) and they were sisters so they used 2 rooms. We’ve since fixed this issue and now do a listing just for 1 room, and another with a higher base rate for 2 people.
Her entitlement and cheapskate-ness was thinking that $180/night for a 3 room cottage was “normal” in this area. It is not.
Anyway, as I said, we’ve resolved that issue since her stay.
I’m sorry, I still don’t understand why you’re complaining about them using beds especially if you say that your listing was ambiguous? And I also don’t understand the market rate comment. Again sorry to nitpick, but whatever pricing and accommodation you offer is what you need to honor. If you agree to let an infant in there you can’t later complain that there was an infant in there.
Did I say it was ambiguous? sorry if you got that impression. in my listing info i said the pricing was based on 2 person occupying one room, I didn’t charge them more to occupy 2 rooms. it wasn’t ambiguous, it was in my house rules. At the start we always just let people have 2 rooms for the same rate. And then that got very annoying because we were doing double the laundry, extra cleaning, etc for no extra money, so we changed how we structure our listings. Market rate, is how hotels charge, they don’t give you extra beds and rooms for free. I know ABB is different, and initially we charged a higher rate for the whole cottage, then got a complaint over value from a smaller group, so we dropped the price based on 2 people with extra guest fee after that. But the problem with that is you can still get the situation where a couple will use 2 rooms even though they are paying the base rate, which i explain is for one couple in one room. Understand yet?
anyway, we have resolved this with a diff price structure, and no longer have these issues.
I’ve heard mention of this idea before. So: 1) Mechanically, how do you offer these two listings such that when one is booked the other one is automatically blocked? and 2) Do you then lock the one bedroom that is/should be unavailable when just the two bedrooms are booked?
I forgot if you use OwnerRez and if that explains how you do this.
Also, I am supposing that when the two bedroom unit is booked, the third bedroom is unavailable. So the only real benefit to you under my assumption is that you save the cleaning on the third bedroom, and can also offer a lower cleaning fee. Is that right?
yes, we have 2 linked listings, and one blocks off the other if booked.
I already have no cleaning fee for short stays.
I don’t lock the other room for a few reasons: it’s great advertising for guests to see the other rooms. 80% of my guests are locals (I mean from Adelaide, about 1hr away) coming up for a wine country weekend, wedding, or country getaway, so if they see the other rooms they hopefully will tell others about our place. Locking the room off blocks out the light and also makes the place feel cramped. So far none of our single room only guests have used the other rooms. The 3rd room has a wall of cupboards which has the vacuum, high chair, kids games, extra linens, iron, etc, so we can’t lock it off.
So yes the benefits are that we save on cleaning time, and we get bookings. We can’t always expect to get a group of 6 staying every single time, in fact that’s not the norm at all.
Well, thank you. I will want to consider that. It would save our cleaning time as we strip all the beds. I also know a few times that guests have stayed over, and my guess is it happens more than I know. So it would prevent that ‘cheating’ as well as save wear and tear, cleaning.
yes it’s good because if you have a group of 4 and then only 2 checking in, we can opt to only make one bed, and use the break to fully strip the other bed and wash the mattress protector, and we have a spare quilt thingy we put on and tuck in so it still looks nice.
And sometimes guests still sneak in extras, but it’s not too often and we let it slide. They generally can’t because we live on the farm too. We tend to get more people calling their 2yo a baby…
We have a new guest booked to start her reservation today. She told us her flight was arriving 6am, but – because of a planned “empty week” before she arrived – we never even made an issue of early check in.
We just this hour discovered that the flight is actually tomorrow, but she booked thew Airbnb to begin today without even being asked in anticipation of arriving before breakfast tomorrow. She didn’t even mention this, and we never compared her flight day and her Airbnb start day until this morning.
She’s pretty well earned a five star review even before getting on her plane back home.