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We had some guests smoking crazy huge blunts in our upper apartment to the point that I almost couldn’t stand to be in our apartment below them when I got home. I messaged them that cannabis is legal where I live and would they please take it outside to our covered porch. They were super apologetic and for the rest of their stay smoked outside. Where they came from it wasn’t legal so it never occurred to them that they could smoke on the porch. I’ve since made sure to add to our rules that as long as they stay on the porch they can legally smoke cannabis, since then we have not had any issues.
As for getting the smell out, I’ve found a pot simmering on the stove with water, a little apple cider vinegar, and a cinnamon stick work really well. It’s even got the smell of fried fish and curries to disappear.
@Vandyne makes a great point. Of all the stinks that could be left behind, pot would be the one I’d choose as being the last invasive. It reads (smells) more like a incense than it does funky tobacco smoke. Some real rank curry or fried fish doesn’t go anywhere for at least a guest or two.
Regarding recourse for the guests? I would ding them in cleanliness and house rules. Asking for money will be a fiasco ($50? Don’t waste your time) and sets you up for a revenge review. Don’t wanna go there.
My health food store sells the lime but their wholesaler won’t carry the lemon. Neither Amazon nor Citrus Magic will ship this by either UPS or USPS Priority Mail since both often come to Alaska by air. I could get it barged from Seattle with a minimum charge of $112.50 per pallet.
However, I just found this one and apparently it can be shipped, so I will try to order a 6 pack.
Sorry about that guest! As you were very smart to have rugs that are easily washed, that is a good thing to do. We can easily smell when our neighbor lights up a bowl so yeah it’s disgusting that the guest did that indoors - VERY disrespectful.
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We would not try to go after “cleaning fees”, and risk the whole review thing. But we WOULD blast them with 1 stars and “Would Never Host Again. SMOKED in our NO SMOKING Unit. Broke house rules. Poor communication”.
LOL I have guests downstairs right now and I can smell the reek on the main floor thru the vents.
I am religous about telling every guest that there is no smoking in the house. Outside is fine.
Thing is, with todays weed it can stink so bad I cant even tell if the guests broke the rule or not. It still stinks like skunk.
I cant even imagine people would book an Air. space and think its ok to smoke.
but I also thought nobody would steal my Drill Driver which still hasnt showed up!
Don’t know about @takeapebble1, but I DO! He has 2 arms, 2 legs and he’s a pothead. And I wish he’d get better product & slow his roll (min 5 times daily)l. I can’t open any door or window w/o getting a nose full of
Like everyone my age I was surrounded by indoor smoking growing up. In the car with rolled up windows, in the house, on airplanes (!!!), in stores. The move to take smoking outside, however, ruined many outside experiences for me. Sometimes I can’t sit on my own back patio without smelling cigs from a neighbor’s yard. The worst are the outdoor dining restaurants and bars. I know some places don’t allow smoking in the outdoor part of bars and restaurants either. It’s just such a slow process.
I have a friend who is unusual in that she’s never smoked a cigarette in her life, but both her parents smoked and she says she likes the smell of cigarette smoke because it reminds her of her childhood. She’s the only non-smoker I’ve ever met who doesn’t mind if visitors smoke in her house.
I’ve found that ex-smokers are the people who seem to be even more bothered by it than non-smokers and I totally get it. The times I have quit, I found the smell to be super revolting.
The smell of diesel bus fumes makes me happy. It whooshes me straight back to going to downtown Pittsburgh with my Mom for our annual back-to-school clothing shopping when I was in elementary school. Then I would “model” the clothes for my Dad in the living room. In hindsight, he was wonderfully patient in admiring the parade of new clothes.
That is unusual. I hate the smell of tobacco. It gives me a headache. My dad just lost a third of a lung and had his chest cracked open to stop spontaneous diffuse bleeding in the lungs…final cause determined to be his 50+ years of cigarette, cigar and weed smoking.
I don’t hate the 420 (did I get that right ) smell…just don’t want my home invaded by it constantly & don’t like the skunky version.
I don’t mind cigar smells either. Again, just would like to choose when I smell this stuff.
I do looove the smell of clove cigarettes. Sooo bad, I know. But it reminds me of “a time”.
I love when a smell, or song or sight brings you back to something precious. It’s quite the gift.
I’d typed out a reply here, but realised that if I left up, @Joan would hate me. So much so, she might not let come and visit her in the Algarve in January!
Ah, yes, that smell of beedies- haven’t thought of that since way back.
There’s plenty of people who don’t particularly mind the smell of weed or cigarettes- I know couples where one smokes and the other doesn’t- the non-smoker may wish their partner didn’t smoke, but they have long ago decided to practice tolerance, as a trade-off for all the great stuff in their relationship.
But of course whether we personally mind the smell of something is irrelevant as far as hosting goes, as no one wants the place to reek of anything when presenting it to newly arriving guests.
Point is… There not smoking in the house. They just reek. should I say “your smell is unacceptable, bath and wash your clothes”
They checked out at 10 and it still reeks. LOL.
Exactly! I wish guests would think about that when they’re dousing themselves with perfumes, etc. But it’s all good…we’ve got quite a nice collection of advice on how to get it all back on track! I’m excited to try some of the more recent suggestions.
Whether something smells good or bad to someone is so subjective and very tied to one’s history. The brain triggers pleasant feelings when it associates a smell with past happy times. So even the smell of diesel fumes, in your case, can be pleasant.
And vice versa- something that one might assume to be some universally enjoyed smell, like lavender, is obnoxious to some. Which is why even diffusers with essential oils, linen sprays, etc, shouldn’t be used in an Airbnb.
My neighbor’s wife is the one who normally bathes their dogs. She was out of town for a week when one of their dogs rolled in dead fish down at the river. Because he’s terminally lazy, my neighbor just kept yelling at the dog every time she’d get near him, “Get away! You stink!”, instead of bathing her.
I pointed out that unless he caught the dog in the act, the poor thing has no idea why she’s being yelled at, and that she obviously thinks dead fish smells fantastic, otherwise she wouldn’t roll in it.
I wonder if dogs, or any animals aside from humans, have any concepts as to whether something smells “good” or “bad”. They might just experience scents as simply what they are- “That smells like dead fish”, “That smells like my master”, “That smells like the neighbor dog”, with zero judgement. They certainly associate the smell of the food they like with “Yum”, but whether it has anything to do with “good” or “bad” in their minds, as opposed to survival is an unknown, at least to me.
) smell…just don’t want my home invaded by it constantly & don’t like the skunky version.