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I’ve become very less tolerant of rude guests. I’m sorry but I would have started making breakfast very loudly… personally I would have woke her up and asked her to use the bedroom.
I have 2 guests now that have gone through 6 towels, 4 wash clothes in 3 days and requested more. So I washed the 1st batch…still never got the other 3 big bath towels back… I have 7 white reserve towels on a shelf in closet…not nice ones like the 6 I left. So she says yes he found them and left 3 more dirty towels outside in the laundry basket. Lol…I left 4 towels 4 wash cloths and said if you need fresh lines or towels feel free to use the basket to go wash them! I’m not a motel… they only been here 4 days now and gave fine through all that.
Not anymore… il leave a sufficient amount and supplies…after that they must get there own. Tierd of pounding on guests doors and trying to track them down.
I know just what you mean. I think by 9am vacuuming the living room would have been a good idea. I’ve found that we must list every little detail in our listing along with house rules. In time you will be adding rules. Leave house rules print out to be seen. Just endure and keep going.
I am a host as well as a CPAP user. A LOT of people need CPAP machines each night in order to ensure they wake up in the morning. It is extremely important and in some extreme cases life threatening to not use one. The person on the sofa probably did Not want to go sleep on the sofa but was forced to do so. They probably didn’t realize that there wasn’t an electricial outlet available to them until you went to sleep and then they didn’t want to disturb you. I know you said they could have let you know, in advance, about their need for an electricial outlet but having an electrical outlet is almost always available so people wouldn’t think to request one. An Airbnb needs several outlets per room these days because of iPhones, iPads and CPAP machines. If I were the host and I woke up to find someone on the sofa I would ask them why and if the answer was no electrical outlet available I would refund that guest their money and apologize.
It is a way for the younger people to dismiss what we think and feel in a rude way. If they don’t know how to debate or respond intelligently they just say “ok boomer”. It’s so rude.
Yeah, and I suppose there is no excuse for being rude. But I did it to my elders when in my youth…same as it ever was. I’m not offended in general but if my Airbnb host showed such casual disregard for my travel needs as I’ve seen in this thread they would definitely get a bad review.
As a CPAP user and frequent overseas traveller I take responsibility for finding access to a power point before I do anything else in the room, in case the bed needs to be pulled out. I now travel with a power board and short extension cord and borrow a longer one from the hotel/BnB if needed. I have never not been able to plug in, some case with a cord across the room, but I make sure I can plug in early!
I would imagine if something was so extremely important to my health I wouldn’t just assume that there is outlet near my bed in some unknown to me home . I would definitely be sure that this something crucial to my health is there before I go to sleep. I stayed in many Airbnbs where there was no outlet near my bed. It is annoying and many times I asked my host for extension cord right away… as soon as I enter my room .
I personally wouldn’t be so pissed at my guest using living room as to start vacuuming . I think it’s kind of rude to do that .
Since we already learned here how it is important outlet near bed , let’s just provide for our guests extension cords no matter what
I agree. As a CPAP user I carry an extension cord when I travel. The host in this complaint said that the outlet was behind something and the guest might not have been able to get to it. This is the reason I made a comment. There has to be an outlet available to guests in each room. People assume there is at least one available outlet.
On the lighter side, my bedside tables block the outlets, so each one has an extension cord with the lamp plugged in. The end of the extension cord has 3 outlets, 2 on one side and one on the other, where the lamp is plugged in. Many guests unplug the lamp, presumably to plug in their phone. I guess they don’t see the other 2 outlets…
For safety I use extension cords and power strips with plugs that lie flat against the wall so the furniture doesn’t bend the wire when pushed back against the wall.
Actually, this won’t protect you from the space heater issue, which is due to electrical resistance, not circuit overload. High electrical current for a long periods causes the copper wires to heat up to dangerous temperatures without ever getting close to tripping a circuit breaker. This is why 110V space heaters are limited to 1500W in the US even though standard electrical outlets are rated at 1800W. However, resistance increases with longer wires, thinner wires, and each plug connection, so even 1500W might not be safe when you plug into an extension cord or power strip, and a circuit breaker would not trip until the insulation melts off of the wires and they touch each other or something else.
Using Wikipedia’s guide as a boomer being born between 1946 and 1964 then I guess I qualify. But I recently was wasting ten minutes on the internet doing one of those quizzes and the result said that I am a millennial. It hadn’t asked what year I was born, obviously.
It’s all nonsense. But if somebody said ‘okay boomer’ to me I’d say 'what? What does that mean? Can you explain? Please elaborate? Tell me more…" and not be satisfied until I got an answer.
No. Everything should be cleaned between guests. We are Airbnb hosts, not some mucky hotel. I include shower curtains, tea-towels, cushion covers and robes. And they are all white so the guests can be sure that they’re clean.
We wash everything, too, after every guest. Every fabric thing the guest used or might have used in the guest room and bath. We wash fabric napkins and towels in the kitchen, too. And we clean every surface and fixture in the guest room and bath.
