And I would not take it personally if you did.
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Who the fuck dyes their hair at an Airbnb!!!
I’d be fuming. Your review is too nice
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I use microfiber sheets too. We have a septic system and can’t use bleach. It is really hard to get stains out without bleach. I admit I am a total wuss and would not charge for an accidental stained sheet. So this is a good medium. I honestly would be very off put being charged 80-100 dollars for a sheet set if I rented a cheap room and somehow got a stain on them. I would think why are there 100 dollar sheets in my budget room?!
We rent rooms at 50 a night and the whole place at 250. 5 star rating as well.
If someone was staying and cotton sheets were necessary, and if they asked that in their whole house booking I would purchase and provide them. I would not on a 50 dollar one night booking. If it is that important the host should be asked via inquiry if the type of sheets are not listed in the description.
I use them on my bed and sleep ok. We are in the Colorado Mountains and it is 50 at night in the summers so no worries about them being hot.
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Apparently quite a few people as we have had multiple posts over the years. In addition, if you have one of those crazy colors it comes off on the linens even if you don’t dye it there at the airbnb. I had a friend stay who provided her own pillow specifically for that reason. I also had a woman with blue hair who stained a few items but it did wash out over time.
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I can accept a bit of dye coming off or something like that bit actually dyeing your hair at the place. That’s not on and I’d consider it totally disrespectful
No need whatsover for such a scenario. Ikea and Asda, to name but two, do a 100% cotton double duvet and pillowcases set for about £25 and a 100% double fitted sheet for about £12. Unless the linen was very new I would charge about half if someone spoilt it. Ninguna problema.
Just yesterday I discovered that my two guests had evidently used our white towels to remove all their makeup, including lipstick and eye makeup. Within half an hour they were pristine. Top loading washer (very un-fancy), Oxyclean, cold water, 25 minute wash. All marks gone.
It’s not a case of being a wuss. It’s a case of marked fabrics being a cost of doing business - a cost that should be allowed for in the nightly price of the rental. (They are deductible against your taxable income, after all).
When hosts claim for every little thing and yet complain about the fees that Airbnb charge for their services, I see a conflict there…
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Not only that but when the solution for every little problem is “call Airbnb.” I especially don’t get it with things that a host could better manage in person. I was just reading someone saying Airbnb should better manage people’s expectations of what a private room is. How are they supposed to do that? Every private room is different, every home is different. The host has to manage expectations, Airbnb is just a booking and payment platform.
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Bleach (chlorine) is never good anywhere, but if its an environmental toss up between the toxins produced by microfibre manufacture or the waste of throwing out otherwise good white cotton sheets, judicious use of bleach is justified.
To avoid spoiling a septic tank a bucket of bleach water could be disposed of outside appropriately once in a while. I understand the chlorine becomes a gas.
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Guests should not expect 24/7 access to a hosts whole home when they just book a private room. This is normal and 100% accepted with hotels and B&Bs so its definitely an Airbnb thing.
There’s not enough onus on the guest to read the listing, amenities or rules. Therefore the host has to jump through multiple hoops and communicate the same thing several times.
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I agree x100. So many times I hear or read about a problem a host is having with a guest and think ‘I had that and we discussed it and everything was fine’. Or ‘why the **** didn’t they just talk to the guest?’
I suspect people today are more accustomed to picking up their phone as the ultimate oracle, the fount of all knowledge, the be-all-and-end-all of life.
The other day I asked my partner if it was cool outside. He walked into the kitchen where his phone was charging and looked up the temperature on a weather app. He had to walk right past the door to do so.
It never occurred to him to just step outside to gauge the weather.
Agree x 1000! 
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It can even do some cleaning while it’s at it - thrown onto a path that gets a bit mildew-y, such as under overhanging trees, and it works wonders.
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Or used to sluice down the area my dog does her do do.
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Actually I disagree on this one @Jess1
If a host provides access to their home as well as the room and doesn’t have restrictions on when it can be used, then that is actually what a guest should be able to expect.
I would say the vast majority of live in hosts let guests come and go as they please. It’s the major difference between an Airbnb host and a traditional British B&B where you had to be out at 10.00 and not allowed back until teatime.
I think it’s part of the increasingly 24/7 consumer society where everyone wants an immediate response. And wants someone else to provide them with the answer rather than doing their own homework.
I agree - in many cases issues with guests can be resolved by having a friendly chat, or calmly and professionally enforcing your house rules.
And hosts, can avoid making mistakes by reading up on how Airbnb works before you let your listing going live.
How many people have we had on here that have faced cancellation charges because they cancelled a guest booking even though it says two or three times as you go through the cancellation process that you will be charged and have your dates blocked, they come here in a state of shock that this has happened.
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A lot of us do have restrictions. For example my kitchen is not ticked or listed as an amenity, however many entitled guests have rocked up expecting to use it, and even ignored reminders it was not included . Some have even ignored a final warning to cease and desist using it and I have had to evict them.
Its only since I have politely said ‘fuck the fuck off out of my kitchen’ in several different ways and times that it stopped happening. The bar shouldnt be that high. Airbnb has categorically got an entitled guest problem. They do not feel obliged to read the listing, they just expect the host to pander to their wants regardless of what they have paid for.
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Interesting isn’t it. We are both live in hosts in the same city yet our experiences of guests are so dissimilar.
I have never had guests trying to access areas or facilities that are off limits in three years and with literally hundreds of guests.
I don’t know how to explain it.
What is it that they want to use the kitchen for @Jess1 is it cooking a meal or making a cuppa?
For me I do not want them cooking. I find it inconvenient and unhygeinic, its unashamedly my space. I love meeting the guests, I am happy for them to have simple breakfast and to have snacks/hot drinks in the evening. They cannot access my kitchen in the daytimes because I work at home.
But you allow cooking and washing up in your kitchen, so the same wouldn’t apply 90% of the time.
I have only had two come in my living room or my (unoccupied!) bathroom uninvited. I have never had anyone open bedroom doors. There was a man once who arrived early, followed another guest in and did self check in without prior arrangement. He must have opened bedroom doors to find his room. I evicted him immediately.
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I do allow them to use the kitchen, but I don’t allow them to light the log fire, use the washing machine, or key appliances in the kitchen such as the coffee machine, or one of the living rooms which has the only TV in the house, so I wouldn’t agree the same doesn’t apply 90% of the time.