I have a shared space with 2 bed/1 bath. I didn’t get to meet this dude in his 20s as I was out all evening yesterday and came home and went straight to bed. He wasn’t there at the time but his stuff was in his room. He has a bunch of great reviews. I woke up to shredded cheese of mine being all over the living room… On the hardwood floor, the table, the rug and on the couch with him sleeping on it. It was a pure WTF moment. I went back to my room to think of how to handle it. When I came out 10 minutes later, he just got up and I questioned him. He was really apologetic and cleaned up the whole mess including the under the rug, took the cushions out and thoroughly cleaned it. He is going to buy hard wood floor cleaner as I normally vacuum and use polisher on occasion. He was kinda crying while cleaning as I was in my room working. He said he slept walk and felt like an idiot and it won’t happen again. It is possible he was drunk but he wasn’t hungover at 6am so I’m not too sure. I told him I was considering kicking him out when I saw the mess but given his response and action I let it slide. Hope you enjoy the story! And curious if any of you would handle it differently.
Maybe he was sleep walking, it is possible. As a Type 1 Diabetic I have had nocturnal walks to the kitchen while having low blood sugar to stuff carbs into me and I don’t always remember and it can be messy. However I’m still alive!
Another one here. I’ve only done it a few times in my life but yes, I’ve walked in my sleep. So it’s possible that happened to the guest.
P.S. He sounds like a sweetheart, even buying special cleaning stuff, good guy. 
It seems like hes very remorseful about what happened and wasn’t a jerk to you. I’d give him another chance. I bet he’ll be a good guest going forward. Let us know.
I had a flatmate many years ago, when we students sharing a house in London, who was a notorious sleep walker. On one occasion I woke up in the middle of the night, just in time to stop him peeing in my wardrobe. Another time I answered the doorbell early one morning, to find him standing there stark naked. He said thank you very much, walked past me and went back to bed.
I could go on with anecdotes, but the main point is that he never remembered these events; neither did they involve alcohol. There was plenty of that about at the time, and seemed to help stop his nocturnal adventures.
My two cents on the story: isn’t it dangerous to host a sleepwalker? what if they do something like injuring themselves, like falling out the balcony/window, cross the street and getting hit by a car etc… Isn’t the host liable? Touch the wood this would ever happen, but I would freak out if I knew my guest is sleepwalking. I wouldn’t know what to do.
In all honesty, I would like to know stuff like that about a guest, especially if it’s the guest who comes in the house I live in.
Yep I have had a sleepwalking guest. At some point in the night she went downstairs to the kitchen & opened the fridge. Eat my pepperoni using the cream cheese as a dip, opened the Chorizo but evidently didn’t like that as only one slice was gone. Opened a bag of grated cheese & eat a handful then saw the milk and made herself a bowl of cornflakes which she half eat before leaving it on the counter (& fridge door open) and going back to bed.
I got up in the morning and cleaned up the kitchen etc, gathering what had happened. She got up later and acted completely normal, as we were getting on well I didn’t embarrass her by bringing it up & just filed it in the “amusing AirBNB stories to be told at parties” section of my brain. 
a reminder that being a host is challenging and requires flexiblity and concessions.
It is Never an easy choice to share your personal space with strangers.
But it makes for some awesome stories you can share on airhostsforum.com.
This reminds me of when my brother and I were travelling in Algarve Portugal. Now he is a reformed alcoholic, but not then. In the middle of the night he took the owners stuff out of her dryer and proceeded to lay them on the floor and use them for bedding, naked!! True story! I’m giggling at the memory, good thing a burly local dude didn’t intervene, I guess my brother was too tall and big. He was very remorseful, shocked and embarrassed.
My boyfriend used to sleep eat because of his anti depressants or something. I would tape the fridge up at night and put signs all over it, but every morning it would be ripped off and another tub of ice cream gone. The worst part is he would drool everywhere. He ruined all of the bedding and furniture. Once he came off of them it stopped completely, although sometimes we do wake up to jolly rancher wrappers all over the bed.
I, for one, appreciate how you handled this rare occurrence. My thoughts are that unless one is a nurse, or has similar exposure to people at their most vulnerable, like sleeping or bathing, we don’t have much experience with how odd human behavior can be. Seeing that you either believed him or you simply gave him the benefit of the doubt shows me that you have great qualities - kind and compassionate. And since his close-to-tears cleanup indicates a person feeling remorseful and embarrassed, I think you handled it fine, given how surprised you were with this maybe once and once only experience.