Hi @konacoconutz,
Well, it’s more than they hardly said a word to me after check in and the paperwork - both the lady and her boyfriend. They didn’t seem upset or unfriendly as such, just uncommunicative. And they were perfectly civil at the check out, and didn’t say anything negative about anything. And of course I asked if there was anything they wanted, yada, yada, as I always do. Incidentally, they also consumed an impressive amount of bandwidth, considering they weren’t in that much.
In general, I’ve not found most of the guests here super chatty. Most of them are very short stay, and are often rushing around doing the tourist thing like they were on some kind of holy mission. But these people were definitely on the extreme edge of the scale.
But it’s hard to say. Some people are weird. And maybe she will say bad things about me in her review. Though I don’t see how it would change anything if I said bad things in mine.
That’s a hard question to answer, since I don’t entirely know what expectations other people might have. But recommend, as in, these people were simply delightful, and you must have them stay? No. Though they might behave differently with you. People do, you know. There’s no saying.
A more concrete question is whether I would host them again. The answer is, probably. After all, a booking is a booking, money is money, and if I don’t accept it when I get it, there’s no guarantee that I would get it again. I wouldn’t again accept someone who damaged my home or caused me security problems. But I probably would have to talk to them about rules against littering before I left them in. Needless to say, this is all extremely hypothetical. I don’t imagine this part of the world gets much repeat business.
Anyway, some of this comes back to an insightful comment that @Paul_Janaway made, when he talked about the disconnect between host’s expectations when sharing their home, and what a hotel would expect. Something about a hotel being quite Ok with a bit of mess, because they are being paid to clean it up? I’m not finding that thread right now, and search is useless with so much similar discussion.
It also reminds me of a game I once tried to play online. I was in a chat channel, and I asked what the most evocative word in the language was. I expressed myself badly - I meant to say - emotionally evocative. In a positive way. The word I had in mind was “home”. But I got no takers.
My point is that when people are dealing with their homes, it becomes not entirely a business arrangement. It becomes something more intimate and personal.
