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Are you serious Kenny?? Do we have a laundry specialist amongst us??? - Yippee!! Maybe you should have stayed undercover…lol.
OK guys…I will make a new post soon about how I ridded myself of the makeup removal crap on your nice new towels/linens, etc. It made my blood boil. I don’t wear makeup at all, so I was shocked to see this BS.
I have shared this with some in private message, and will post at a later time. I went from guests being so disrespectful…to guests who rarely leave anything on towels. I had to tweak to find a fine line and getting them to respect the towel situation.
My coverlet is stiff as a board Kenny. I believe it is 100% polyester - so a fake coverlet (so to speak).
But I have another one in a different color that I (previously) ordered from the same company. It is soft and I love it. Will have to look on the tag to see if there was a change in the material ingredients.
Oh…and how do I know if my towels are “soft” - this may seem like common sense. I honestly never even thought about whether I should buy new ones or not. My place is semi-luxury (not full luxury) and I provide bath sheets. Of course if they are shredding then I would replace. But how do I know if what I am providing should be replaced? For my own home I use the same towels I have had for over a decade. Never thought about anything except for their use of drying me off from water.
Good point! I was just teasing. I used Dawn dishwashing liquid on the grease and that seemed to help, but maybe it’s just time for a new damn cloth.
I’m a professional copywriter, but notice I haven’t offered to review anyone’s listing copy. Also notice how I haven’t asked you about the rise of Nazi Germany or anything lately!!
We’ve already had that whole nutty thing about whether Bed’Breakfast includes food. Now we have a host saying it doesn’t include bed linen. What’s next, bring your own bed?!? Yes, of course - we only provide the backyard - you have to bring a trailer (host mutters about stupid demanding guests - regales friends with stories about these ridiculous needy Yanks).
I travelled once with a guy on business who brought his own linen and seemed surprised that I expected it. But he was a weirdo - it was more of a cleanliness thing with him. He’d never travelled before.
Disagree. I would be horrified if I showed up to a room and there were no sheets or towels. That would be like showing up to a restaurant and having my food just dumped on the table because ‘plates are a luxury.’ Huh?
I think it’s expected and should be provided. It’s part of running the business.
I think these people are naive Italians and this is their fist summer doing airbnb - probably in the past they offered it as a guest-beach house and, as for the Jersey Shore, linens are not provided.
They also had no info regarding check in/ check out times and then wrote me and asked me to be out by 11am.
They are giving me bikes, chairs and beach umbrella and offered to pick us all up at the train station, so they seem very kind.
They are just novices -but I will mention it in my review .
I think it’s ridiculous to not provides towels and linens, unless we are talking about a rustic campsite or cabin where visitors drive from the same region.
Having to pack them for an international flight is ridiculous. Who wants to waste luggage space on that?
Also, bed sizes vary from country to country. Linens brought from the US might not even fit an Italian bed properly.
First, buy cheap towels.
You can buy wholesale from restaurantsupply.com and others. There are all kinds of things available in bulk from soap to shower curtains.
I think everyone is free to have their own hosting standards and to do Airbnb as they wish.
We are not hotels. We are not hostels. We can all choose where we are on the spectrum of lodgings.
Lately, I’ve actually been thinking about posting a listing in a situation that is cluttered, busy, messy, industrial. It’s decidedly quirky, it’s old old old and they’d have to walk down a long flight of commercial stairs just to get to the bathroom.
It would be the polar opposite of our two listings. But I’m interested in exploring the parameters of what something like this can be.
If people really want to live somewhere, and live as artists do in our part of the world, well - we don’t live the way they live when they come to our current listings. This would be more real.
There are times when I look at a person and think; “you’re just not going to be possible to please, no matter what.” And I do wish, in those circumstances, that we were offering something that does not meet every need and says so up front. Because we get too many spoiled princess guests who treat me like a servant and our house like a cheap hotel. I don’t like it, I don’t want them and I am constantly trying to figure out how to weed them out of the pack.
Not offering towels and telling them they have to make up their own bed might be a solution, and I’m considering it.
I have taken to buying the stack of white Wash Cloths at Costco, tying them with a colored ribbon on which I have a label that says: “For your use. Take with you or leave for cleaning cloths”. I make a issue of pointing out this new white Face Cloth to all female guests indicating that it is a special “gift” for them to use when removing makeup, etc. To date, I have had no problem with makeup on my plush Turkish cotton towels. But, I have used (note that I no longer do) sage green sheets for the AirBeds when provided. But I assume it is the Benzoyl Peroxide which is used by many today for acne that completely bleached a set of sheets and pillow case. I have switched to bright white.
Those are good ideas but for me they’re not really workable.
White brings its own set of problems. Period stains, yellow stains from body cream - you name it. We like patterned sheets when we can find patterns we like at a reasonable price.
Other hosts have voiced disapproval over patterned sheets but I keep a pretty close eye on European home design through instagram, in magazines, things like that and I like to stay abreast of what’s fresh.
We have acquired some really nice vintage sets. I find the quality of the fabric used in antique bedding is usually better than what I can find in contemporary linens but that’s enough said about that. Sourcing is its own thing.
I also dislike white sheets for labor purposes. We have three different sizes of bed in the house and it’s just too easy for white sheets to get completely mixed together. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run my hand all around the outside of three or four fitted sheets looking for the tag to tell me what size the damned thing is and then refolding them before I can even get started making the bed.
I have high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and frankly, anything I can do to reduce irritation, even minor irritations, is helpful.
We already stock the apartments with between $30 - $50 worth of organic, local food every week so I’m not inclined to add another expense into the mix, and anyway, there’s no costco within 100 miles of us.
We don’t patronize Walmart, haven’t set foot inside one of those since 2000 and we’re not about to start now, so while the extra washcloth thing is a good idea, I don’t see it happening for us.
End of the story regarding place that did not include sheets and towel;
they were lovely, the place was lovely - the collected us and brought us back to the train station
(I was a woman alone with 2 kids , a bike, and 3 bags, so that was priceless!).
It was just the “beach apt” mentality, even if in Italy, like the Jersey Shore, sheets and towels not included.
If you did arrive from abroad, they would give them to you at a fee of 15 euro.
They didn’t seem to find this strange at all, so it must be part of this region of Italy’s culture.
Also notice how I haven’t asked you about the rise of Nazi Germany or anything lately!!