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I basically only want coffee in the morning. Same, I don’t really eat til noon.
My kids once woke me up at 8 am on Mother’s Day (not a gift), so excited and proud of themselves because they had made me breakfast, and stuck a plate of fried eggs in front of me as I sat up in bed half asleep.
What’s a mom to do?
“Oh, how sweet of you girls, thank you. Um, it’s delicious,” as I am choking it down, trying to look appreciative.
I’d be really annoyed if someone expected me to sit down to breakfast at 10 am. (especially if I was expected to drink orange juice or eat a frittata 
. I could handle a croissant with coffee) As a night owl and late riser, 10am usually finds me pouring my second cup of coffee and organizing my day.
On vacation,I could easily sleep until 10am.
Orange Juice would cause me a very bad day. Frittata, almost as bad. Yu are courageous. @JJD
Quite crazy. What a control freak. I can see why some people get turned off of home-shares 
I just show my guests where the French press and other coffee gear is kept, and grind beans for them the night before, so the grinder doesn’t wake me up. Most of my guests are either sitting having their coffee or tea in the morning by the time I get up, or already up and out to the beach.
Wow! That is absurd! I always carry a small container of instant coffee wherever I go. It solves any potential issues. That is the strangest I’ve ever heard.
In our home share guest space we have a hot water pot, a drip coffee maker, several kinds of beans, a grinder and a coffee press. Also we have instant and decaf, sugar, sweetener, stevia, milk and non dairy milk. For the tea drinkers we have a variety of teas, caf and non caf. Hot chocolate too. If that doesn’t cover it I don’t know what will.
There was only one guest I didn’t review, because I was quite uncertain as to how to review. While I was mulling it over, the review window expired. I didn’t participate in any hosting forums then, otherwise I would have asked for input.
She arrived late afternoon, said she had friends in town, and went off for the evening. At 3am I was woken up by her and some guy drunkenly and loudly coming up the stairs, laughing, showering together, then the headboard banging against the wall.
I wasn’t into getting up and making a scene at 3am, so I went back to sleep when they settled down and when I got up in the morning, they were already out. She had 3 more days left on the booking, so I texted her saying that wasn’t cool, that they had woken me up, and that I only host one guest, which is what she booked for.
She right away texted back, apologizing, making some lame excuse about how it “just happened, love and all” and said she’d like him to stay with her, she’d pay more. I said that wasn’t okay, but if she wanted to have him over during the day for awhile, and introduce him to me, that would be okay, but he couldn’t sleep, shower, or cook here. She said okay.
She never did bring him around, we never spoke of it again, and we got along fine for the rest of her stay. She even asked if I knew of a nice day trip somewhere not too far, I recommended a cool site full of petroglyphs, she went and said she had a great day. The day she left, she said “You know, I think you and I are a lot alike”. I really don’t know what she meant by that, but I didn’t ask.
She didn’t leave a review, either. Maybe she was afraid to trigger me to leave a review mentioning her transgression.
The real value of superhost is that that algorithm gives you higher visibility in search results.
Remember though that it is only one of the many factors that are taken into account when returning search results. So it’s hardly worth becoming over-anxious about.
I love home shares. I’ve been a dedicated traveler all my life and have always gone out of my way to stay in homeshares. Many of the hosts I’ve stayed with have stayed with me, and we are all still in touch after all these many many years. The human factor is that extra special bit for me. As a homeshare host I pay it forward, with deliberate intention. I also love sharing what is special about my location, those things that a traveler would likely not stumble into, and that I know it will make a very special trip.
She actually was sort of a host. I didn’t mention that in my recounting above, as in “hosts make the worst guests” because when I looked at her listing, I saw that she only had one or two reviews, from a long time back. It appeared that she had just rented out her condo once or twice when she was travelling.
I doubt she knew about the “wait until hour 13.95” trick, but as far as reviewing in general, even a guest who wasn’t a host might think “If I don’t leave a review, maybe they won’t either.”
But I more had the feeling she was one of those folks that just can’t be bothered.
Wow. Talk about very annoying and entitled. I hope you blasted her in the review, as she well-deserved. She missed the “hospitality business memo”.
Agreed, I’m sure that we are in excellent company with winter being effectively or actually “closed” to tourism. One time my partner and I tried to drive and ferry to Alaska in April. That was a bust!
Unless you were headed to the Alaska Folk Festival, always held in April just before breakup, construction, tourism, and fishing seasons. We joke that we have 2 seasons here — Winter and Construction.
We ended up spending some time on Vancouver Island, then took some time fooling around in BC. It was stunning, though not what we had planned.
I lived on Vancouver Island for 25 years, up in Courtenay. That’s where my youngest daughter and all my best friends are. I love it there, I just wish it wasn’t cold and rainy so much of the year.
There’s only one season in Mexico- Construction. There’s always a pile of sand or gravel spilling out into the road somewhere you have drive around. Tires get flats a lot from all the nails, bits of wire and rebar lying about.
That was my experience living in SE AZ. Got one flat early on, 4 new tires and repeated flats. Sometimes it was nails, other times thorns from plants next to the road. I have never had so many flats in my life. Was probably close to 6 in 3 1/2 years.
Since leaving Arizona, zero flats in 3 1/2 years.
I hear you on the weather in the NW. Made it 39 years in WA and just couldn’t do it any more. If it wasn’t for that 6 months of grey and depression, I’d still be there.
My cousins are all in BC, hometown on Vancouver Island.Yes, I know about Construction in Mexico. Same here in Mendocino County.
Same here! I didn’t perceive the Superhost missive as cheery though - it made my blood boil, for the exact same reasons you have. I’ve been wondering what to do about it though.
The Omicron variant is starting to hit hard so ABBs timing is very poor. We certainly aren’t about to invite strangers into our home in the current circumstances - we do this hosting stuff to meet people and when it’s safe we’ll open up again. And that isn’t going to be anytime soon!
My feeling is to communicate with ABB and see what they say. Or just tell them to get stuffed and retire (dis)gracefully!
Los Angeles Times: California Orders Statewide Mask Requirement Starting Wednesday Amid Rising Coronavirus Cases
Faced with rising coronavirus cases and growing concerns about the Omicron variant, California is ordering a statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces to go into effect on Wednesday. The move comes as coronavirus case rates in California have risen by almost 50% in the last 2½ weeks, and COVID-19 hospitalizations are up by nearly 15%. County health officials across the state say they suspect they may be seeing the start of a winter jump in coronavirus cases. (Lin II, 12/13)
San Francisco Chronicle: California To Reimpose Statewide Indoor Mask Mandate As Omicron Arrives
For many parts of the Bay Area — which lifted indoor mask mandates in certain settings recently after reaching high vaccination rates and low case rates — the state’s announcement will mean a return to indoor masking in offices, gyms and other places where vaccinated people had been able to go maskless. …