Yep and that’s a personal choice, like Helsi said there might be good reasons like insurance. However we shouldn’t need locks on our doors because guests behave in an untrustworthy manner like the one under discussion. I don’t want untrustworthy inappropriate guests even if I did have locks on bedrooms.
@Jess1 gi, yes, he should have contacted you as soon as he got there. we all have house rules & other rules that are specific to how we need to run our property. jess has rules that the guest did not follow. he should not have come in without her permission. period. he saw the place as a hotel. it’s not. “rooting around” her home without permission IS an invasion of privacy & is unacceptable. if he does that will her respect any boundaries as a guest? no, not in his “dna”, as i like to say it. maybe he comes in when someone is in the loo? no locks, to this guy, is an open invitation to explore. i would not trust him either.
he is not a good fit for your home, jess1.
every host has his/her own way of running their property. every host has house rules. unless you run your property just like jess1 runs hers then you cannot understand her reaction. you’re comparing apples to oranges.
my concern, jess1, is the reaction from the guest, i.e., the review. he won’t understand how you feel & is self-centered enough not to think he has done anything wrong. if he leaves a bad review & you respond then just keep it cool. write your review off-line, read, edit & stick with the fact that he didn’t follow written procedure, didn’t communicate with you & entered your home & personal bedroom without invitation…c.y.a. cheers & good luck!
i should spell check myself! lol!
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I don’t think he will dare to leave a review. Firstly I think it dawned on him how wrong he was. Secondly he would not want me to write him a bad review and give him the thumbs down.
Now I have a lovely Italian teacher and a Portuguese/Scottish nurse! It’s a pleasure to do the job and it makes me forget!
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good! happy endings…guy probably checked in to a hotel. sounds like a businessman. at least he wasn’t an American! a few bad apples have killed our reputation. and then there’s trump. ugh. sorry- won’t say more…lol!
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Our own dear Boris Johnson with similarly fabulous hair resigned today. He said Trump should get the Nobel peace prize a month or so ago lol.
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UGH. i have special names for our “commander in chief” that i wouldn’t post!
hey, you have 13 rooms! I’d love to see your place.
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hi, jess1, i lived al8ne for many years & always had dogs, but when i took a shower or slept I’d lock the bedroom & bathroom doors just for safety reasons. all entry doors were locked, too, at all times. i am quite paranoid, though, living in the u.s. with our guns & crime rate. even here at my mother’s house if I’m alone i lock the doors. at dusk, we lock the doors. in my case it’s conditioning & paranoia…lol!
11 doors, some of them small rooms. My Airbnb rooms are only singles. Victorians went in for lots of private rooms. They were so private they even had skirts to cover table legs. I daresay Puritans were similar.
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@cmpipe
Lol!
You made me think of this quote from Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes
About the countryside
“They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
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Where did I state that you have to have self-check in @Jess1?
Rapunzel and Rolf were major proponents of self check in. You were one of a few recommending locks on doors, you discussed self check in in another topic I think.
Discussion become much more balanced and respectful later on.
OK guys…It’s time for me to lock the thread, and I am also going to delete the last comments so the back and forth doesn’t continue into another thread.
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