I am 56 years old and I use a washcloth to wash my face.
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Not in the U.S. About a quarter of my guests under age 30 (well, Iām guessing their ages) use the provided washcloths.
DC!!! I strongly advise you NOT to offer candles! I did at one timeā¦ I had candles all over my room. Then I noticed one time a guest had left them unattended. Another one burned a hole in my tablecloth, but thank god it was only that. It could have burned the whole house down. I once did a ride along with a firefighter who told me that the NUMBER ONE cause of house fires after kitchen ones was unattended candles.
Rememberā¦ many guests are air heads. Get flameless tea lights! Learn from my mistake! Iād be the worldās biggest idiot if I let my guests have candles for ambience and they burned my house down. Then the only ambience Iād have would be inside my car because thatās where Iād be living.
Get rid of the candles! (Steps off soapbox)
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LOL!!! I must be losing my mind? And itās not even happy hour yet! 
But please hosts, NO CANDLES!!!
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Felix, this is a great thread. Just when you think youāve thought of everything, something like this comes along. As stated, it doesnāt really apply to us because we usually will have uncovered useful tidbits from guests by actively soliciting feedback. But if the thread is viewed more as āThings you might not have thought of that guests are unlikely to mentionā, itās terrific.
Incidentally, Iām with Kona: candles? Are you nuts??? Itās like handing a guest some matches and asking where theyād like the gasoline.
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Well Mo, itās dusk, Iām over 40 and I read candies as candles!
Time for wine!
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I did too Kā¦Iām blaming the wine and the fact we donāt regularly use the word ācandyā or ācandiesā here (we say sweets or lollies) so my brain defaulted to a fire risk!
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Bed side lamp. Added it.
Bed side lamp in both sidesā¦ No because then you canāt open wardrobe door.
ACā¦no.
Kitchen tableā¦not enough room, but have a coffee table.
Hair dyer. They can have mine as I never use it, which is why I never thought of adding one. I also leave the iron and ironing board in the flat as I also rarely iron.
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- Detailed directions to the place
A few guests complained that they had trouble finding the place. I resolved that problem.
Advices I followed:
Mattress cover
More pillows
TV in a room
Queen bed instead of full size
Lamp on a nightstand
Advices I ignored:
Mirror in a room ( there is one in private bath)
Breakfast
Nicer sheets
Desk
All the advices I followed were multiple, what I ignored were made each only once
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In the place I stayed last week there were candles in every room and at least ten matchboxes scattered around. The smoke detector was also removed.
It really left me wondering about the hostās sanity.
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Agreed! That host is playing with fire.
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But there is no drying rack or other place to put the dishes while they dry.
They are in NYC. No electric kettle, but there are some interesting DIY projects, like this attempt to customize the toilet handle:
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I stayed in Honduras in a wooden lodge where owner provided candles and matches but also there were no fire alarm. I thought the same thing that owner is crazy. I even asked her if she is not afraid that her guest at one point will burn the lodge and themselves leaving it on at night
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Maybe she had to remove the smoke detector because all those burning candles kept setting it offā¦
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@jaquo, Iāve had FRENCH guests who donāt know how to use a cafetiere! Actually, weāve found that a lot of younger French travellers prefer tea to coffee, especially at breakfast. Go figure, as our US friends say ā¦
As for the sunglasses ā¦ remember the Fawlty Towers episode; āTheyāre on your HEAD, Mrs Richards!ā? Good old Basil, he could teach us a thing or two about guest control ā¦
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Guests do the strangest things with candles! It isnāt just the allowing them to burn unattended.
We had a guest in the fall who tried to roast a pumpkin over one of these three-wick candles.
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