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A recent guest sent a message the day before check-in asking if it would be too much trouble for us to open our Florida room that is closed during the winter/ cold weather. She said she was six months pregnant and overheats easily and it would be nice if she could step out there and cool down. We were able to accommodate her request.
They checked out the next day and when did our initial walk through everything looked great. Then we discovered the trash bin of vomit left in the Florida room tucked between the daybed and wall.
My husband and I are torn on how to review her. I understand that morning sickness is a real thing, and am glad she used a trash bin rather than vomiting all over the place. But, you know you puked, at least try to clean it up. How would you rate them?
I totally agree. 5 stars and “everything looked great when they left.” She was sick as a dog and still made sure “everything looked great” and just forgot one thing. Karma is real
I’ve only been pregnant once but I truly thought that morning sickness happened in the first three months? I might be wrong,
But what’s the problem with throwing up in the loo? Or at least cleaning the mess up,
I’d be honest in the review. “Guest was six months pregnant and whist we appreciate that morning sickness is a thing, we did not appreciate the vomit left in the rental”.
Minimum once, maximum 17 times a day for the entire pregnancy. I didn’t bloom, I kept a bucket near by always and was in a continuous state of nausea.
I had morning sickness through the sixth month. Idk why they call it morning sickness; morning, noon, or night, it didn’t matter. I used to have to pull over and puke on the way to work—and it was only a 20 minute drive. I worked shift work so the commute wasn’t always in the morning.
I only felt nauseous for the first three months, and only in the mornings, with my three and it got progressively worse with each pregnancy- I don’t recall feeling pukey at all with the first.
But one of my daughters was nauseous her entire pregnancy.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the age of the mother- I was 22 when I got pregnant with my first, 32 with the last, and my daughter was 38. I’ve observed with my friends and family that the women who are older have more uncomfortable pregnancies and more difficult births in general.
While it’s common these days for women to wait until they are in their mid-thirties or even older to start a family these days, our bodies are really designed to have babies long before that.
I was 19 when I got pregnant and turned 20 five months before giving birth. I had an uncomplicated pregnancy, except for the nausea which went on for six plus months. Natural birth, uncomplicated labor, no postpartum depression. I believe I’ve read that the amount of nausea has to do with hormone levels? Not sure.
Pregnant or not, I would be so embarrassed to leave something like this in someone’s house, and would probably even go as far as to wrap it up and drive it to a public trash bin somewhere else. And I would do it immediately, so that I wouldn’t forget, and also so that the smell of vomit wouldn’t permeate the air. So it would be a 4 from me for this guest.
I agree with you. That’s nasty. I’ve had that happen but it was clear they’d puked on my bath mat & tried to clean it up. The “clean up” was in the trash bin & covered with TP. They should have taken it out.
But, it wasn’t in my rules pre-Covid that guests had to empty the bathroom & kitchen bins to the outside so technically no rules were broken.
So, I knocked off a star for cleanliness & didn’t mention the puke.
I would have knocked one off for common sense instead, but there is no such option .
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