If you’re comfortable, please post a pic of the newly VACATED space! 
We would love to see. And we will just “imagine” the Chinese spices that still hang in the air…
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wooooooo!!! I just love seeing it all clean and empty!!!
Oh, and maybe I should add the newly vacated living room, which the furniture was just steam cleaned. The guests rarely used this room but the smell from their cooking went in there
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oh gosh you had to steam clean b/c of the smell! oh no!
Glad that they are gone - phew!
Lovely place btw… I would imagine that expensive looking upholstered furniture readily absorbed all those crazy spices. Well, no wonder they wanted to stay home all day… It looks inviting and cozy. 
so glad they are gone!!! Again break open the champagne!
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Thanks 
Yes, and the parents just arrived in America for the very first time, and my house was their first American house. Maybe it felt like a castle to them.
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While I understand how difficult this situation may be, unless you were specific and communicated clearly and in advance that you allowed cooking only during certain hours of the day, and that you expected guests to be out of the house during certain hours, I just don’t see how you can be upset, or even surprised, by the behavior of your guests.The parents are not tourists, and have no interest in going out on the town, they are there to be close to their son and pamper him with home-cooked meals (even if the “home” in home-cooking is your home). I would calmly discuss the issue with the son and come to an agreement. Look, it could be worse – they could be nudists who are preparing for a yodeling competition!
This was 3 months ago, so they are long gone. After that experience, I modified my listing so that I now have a maximum stay, and also emphasized about the remoteness of my property, that there is no public transportation available, and nothing in walking distance. This is not a suitable accommodation for people who do not drive/do not have a car. The son (referring to the above-mentioned guests) had a car but left his parents in the house. The only thing they could do was walk up and down the street. After 2 months, that would drive anyone crazy. I had no knowledge about the son leaving his parents in the house until after they arrived. I don’t know if it’s a cultural thing, or they were too used to China where they may have had many attractions in walking distance. That was a lesson learned!
Also there are now kitchen rules, including to keep cooking light/basic as possible. When guests are “trapped” inside all day, they run water/utilities excessively, and my bills showed it! It offset my earnings, so no money was made. This whole experience was definitely a “lesson learned” kind!
While the parents had the right to pamper their son with home-cooked meals like back in their native county, guests like that should book an entire home listing, not a private room one.
I cannot undo what has been done, so now the only thing I can do is prevent it from happening again in the future.
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When there is an amenity available it does not mean guests can spend hours using it. It’s someone’s house, owners live there. It’s simple curtesy to stay a nit out of the way and not fill with your presence every corner of the house when you rent only a room. To use someone’s kitchen like this without even asking if they can use it so heavily is bad manners and inconsiderate. If they want to spoil their son then rent a separate house paying accordingly but not to occupy kitchen so much that owner hardly has access to it.
Same goes for laundry. I had a couple who travelled for a month, then rented my room for one night and did their month worth of laundry for 5 hours.
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I actually saw one lady who did it in a clever manner because she clearly didn’t want them in the house AT ALL while she was out. She said something like, “What I am offering is bed and breakfast only. I leave the house at 8 each morning and do not return until 4, so guests will need to respect the daily rhythm of my home and do the same.” Maybe you could do something like this.
That’s too funny! I would never rent from someone who tells me how many hours I should spend inside, even if this is what I was going to do anyway., Badically she is saying that she doesn’t trust guests to be in a house while she is not there. A certain amount of trust is required for this hosting business in your home .
Hmm I would not to expect to get many bookings …if any…if I stated that in my listing
You could state it more diplomatically. Say you work from 8-4 and prefer to host guests who are out sightseeing (or whatever) during those hours.
I write a description of the type of guest I would prefer. Something like: “My place is ideally suited for sightseeing guests who wish to be in the west side tropical zone but want a centrally located home base from which to see both sides or the island within a day’s drive… I’m only interested in hosting quiet, responsible guests who are not expecting fussy or fancy amenities. I’m not a five star place, and I don’t advertise it as such.”
There’s nothing wrong with stating what you would prefer as it’s always a process of making sure guests are a good fit. Of course I wouldn’t prefer them to stay inside all day using up utilities, etc… but they paid for it and should be entitled to do as they wish!
It’s not going to keep all of their stay and expectations under your control, but at least it gives you hope if you state what you are looking for in a guest. I have found it really helps.
I’d also find it realllly offputting myself. But it doesn’t seem to stop her getting bookings. What she’s offering is a real B & B experience. If you book a normal B & B it is expected that you leave during the day. At least, traditionally. B & B owners get very shirty at guests who sit in their rooms all day because they can’t go in and fluff the bedding etc.
Kasage00.
Oh boy do i get it,this business of guests being home all day whether they speak English or not. The so is using you, and your correct, its not nice for them either after coming so far. Speak to him firmly and tell him you must have him take his parents at least 3 days a week and drop them off through the day- collect them on his way home.
We had this argument with airbab and a few people before. Frankly our private homes are NOT hotels and its simply bad manners to hang about all day.
Remember everybody it is your house and airbabn need you to have a business… Dont crawl to them and tbo all this feedback is an invasion of your privacy. I once saw a complaint that somebody forgot to put loo paper in the spare bathroom. It was this poor ladies first guests and i guess she was nervous. Yet airbab allowed her to be humiliated world wide on the net. There was a picture of her and her full name. What nasty guests and how nasty of airbab to set up something that really invaded all your privacy like naughty kids.
Airban refused to help us after hosts last christmas, who were told we did not allow guests home all day as we run a biz from home-- Pls do not book if u are clubbing all night home at 7am and in bed all day did just that.!!
Airban so called case worker said we had no right to tell them they couldnt be in bed all day- Huh! its our home.
They were so drunk and off their faces on drugs by the looks too that they threw up all over the carpets the bathroom, the hall, the bed but airbabn still helped them when we finally said OUT.
We called airbanb - it was Christmas! as a matter of good manners to airbab saying we have told them to get out.
Airbab said oh but you cant: Cant we? Do not tell us anybody has to cop this we said- we wont. Airbab then tripped over themselves helping these drunks with no concern for us at all.
They found them another home-- ( how dare they send the problem onto somebody else)
Anyway after they got their money back-- oh yes they did— the two guests both made seruios death threats.
We contacted airbab - nothing. These threats continued for two months by phone. If airbab had NOT found them other accommodation on the coast where the clubs stay open all night- they would have left the area-- and problem solved.
We called airbab at least 12 times-- no result- no return call from a more serious case worker.
Finally we told them as it destroyed our Christmas we wanted compensation - and replace the carpets and mattress too. Despite is paying for cleaners the stains would not all come out.
We both agreed too- that after the way they ignored these threats-- death threats and refused to even talk about it wed leave airbab. We didnt feel safe. We saw they dont do police checks.
Airban claimed because we removed our ad they could no longer talk to us BS
They simply hang up in our ear if we call.
We went as high as we could go asking one of the owners to contact us.
Nothing.
Dont agree to have people leave reviews and invade your privacy. Tell them to get out of your kitchen and your house through day hours!
Do not be intimated.
…this happened over three months ago now read the post above from the host
You can not be serious. I Really think that its a good thing for the Airbnb community that you are not hosting anymore. ANd this is the first time i am saying it to anybody.
People get too much of alcogol sometimes, but it does not mean they are drunks. Accidents happen.
I recently had 2 girls who hardly turned 21 and they rented my room for a day, not even for a night, because their plane was leaving at midnight and they were so sick from partying the night before.
In Ireland i took pubcrawl tour, and because i am not a big drinker, i had a few wiskey and in a morning had a horrible hangover. ANd i am way past 21 and a grown woman with family. I went on a tour and was so pale, that our tour guide asked me if iam feeling all right. I told him that i am incredibly hangover. He stopped the whole bus full of people at the farmacy. There pharmacist made me some magic mixture, and half an hour later i was good to go.
On a same trip, i slipped and broke my wrist. The next day , i could not even zip my jeans, or put a sweater on. I was in so much pain, stayed in bed all day. My host, the nicest guy in a world, brought me food, and the next day he helped me dress, and took me to the doctor.
i can not believe you were kicking these poor people out of the house
I added one load of laundry per night booked after hearing about your guests!
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I had two similar situation – also guests from China, twice – one set for 7 weeks and one set for a month. Certain types of Chinese cooking are just too much in my house … the frying smells up the house and cleaning up the grease (because the guests don’t do a good job of cleaning) is time consuming and caused me to resent the guests. The experiences with these two sets of guests were starting to make me feel negatively towards long term guests and Chinese guests. And I didn’t want to fall into a trap of stereotyping potential guests and ruling out someone needlessly.
Since the problem was with cooking, like several others in this thread, I changed my listing to say “limited use of stove” and “no frying of food.” I also really got tired of having guests rummaging through my fridge and leaving their leftovers.
It took some trial and error, but now I have setup my kitchen so there is a “guest area” with a bar-size guest fridge, microwave, toaster/toaster oven, and rice cooker dedicated to guest use.
I just had a guest from Taiwan for three months and he was great, even though he cooked from scratch almost daily. He steamed food in the rice cooker, never fried food on the stove (although he did use the stove and oven) and always cleaned everything beautifully. We talked about the cooking issues before he arrived, so all went well. This was a good lesson in communication. It is delicate to figure out how to avoid insulting someone’s cuisine! One thing I said is that my stove exhaust system can’t handle frying, and that seems to be an acceptable explanation.
Before this good guest experience, I was very hesitant to take longer staying guests (particularly Chinese) because the cooking always became such an annoyance… And the guests not only smelled up the house and messed up the kitchen, but they took over too, so that (as others noted) I had limited access to my own kitchen.
I learned that stating my needs does not hurt bookings! Politely saying “limited use of stove” and “no frying of food” seems to be working!
Happy Hosting – Lia
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