So, get this, Our current guest is a self-professed germaphobe, especially her son, she says. They rented for 15 days, but the first three days no one could enter the unit, even them. Then their son entered, with, she said, a UV light, to detect germs, viruses, dirt etc. She says we passed.
We had just done a deep clean as we had a gap in bookings and took advantage of it. But I love this idea of the UV light and told the cleaner I will be rechecking each time with UV now (of course, kidding).
I had purposely not broken the seal on the spices and condiments because I sensed (how could I miss?) that they were finicky, and explained I had done so for their benefit as normally I would break that all of for convenience. She said they had noticed and appreciated.
My offer to bring sundry groceries to them was not engaged because, she said, the food or anything brought to the property needs to go through a five-day quarantine period as well.
She was thrilled that the home had a written emergency plan, which say she said she ‘studied.’ She also appreciated all the documentation, saying we had thought of everything.
The universe has brought us our perfect guest, and with a UV light to boot, which I had never considered, especially for those coffee machines!
In fairness to them, this is not COVID related. I have no judgment on whether they are being reasonable. These are two ladies, one 91, one 70; the older one with cancer in chemotherapy, the younger one with leukemia. So they are immune-compromised.
I am glad that I have commercial insurance, but we also have done all we humanly could have done, though never thought of using a UV machine.
Any thoughts out there on is there anything we could have done, do next time, to prepare for a guest like this? Are there certain products beyond Lysol we should be using? We have plastic wrapped the remotes and door knobs.
