I’ve been delaying writing this review. With one day left, and still not knowing precisely what to say, I thought I might ask for other opinions…
My guests were quiet and left the space clean and tidy upon departure. However, they did do something that I would consider to be odd, maybe even inappropriate (?).
To provide some context:
Our listing is a former open-plan living area, which we converted to a studio-like setup. Bathroom facilities are shared, and outside the listing itself in our hallway. You walk through our home to enter it. It’s clear that the space is part of a larger home, which we live in, and it’s listed as a ‘private room’.
Our listing looks out onto our back garden, however we don’t offer access to it. While we don’t explicitly say ‘no back garden access’ in our listing, we didn’t mark it as an amenity. There is also no door to the back garden, so I presumed that doing so would be unnecessary. However, one of our guests climbed through a window to access it. It was unexpected.
The first time they did this, they shouted ‘hello?’ to see if anyone was about. I heard this from my bedroom, which has French doors opening out into our back garden. I didn’t reply, as I assumed it was someone talking on the road that runs beside our home. However, I then I saw my guest wandering around my back yard. He ran over to our garage, which is a bit of a mess, as it’s where all our surplus renovation materials are stored, and is an undercover area we hang our laundry sometimes. It’s also an area pending improvement on our property. I can’t say I was pleased to have a guest see it in that state. Then he went back inside.
He went out a second time during his stay, within an hour or so of the first incident. We have a fence that is over 2 meters high, running from the side of our house to the fence surrounding our property (shared with our neighbour). My guest decided to climb over this fence, going from our back yard into our front. I have no idea why - for fun, I presume. My daughter, whose bedroom is at the front of our house, opposite this fence, heard him climb over and saw him run past her window. Shortly before this, my daughter said his partner went and opened our front door. She heard her call out her partner’s name, and that’s when he jumped over the fence, going over it to re-enter our home via the front door.
I don’t necessarily know what to write about this. I wasn’t happy about what occurred. I personally feel that, if you have to climb out a window to get into the back garden, it’s an area you should realise is not intended for you to use. The behaviour was unexpected and odd, but not malicious. Curiosity leading to what I feel is inappropriate behaviour isn’t something that I would want to leave out of this review, despite these guests otherwise being ok.
What would you say?