A rental I stayed in recently had two small floating shelves above the loo. They were more or less the size of the average toiletries bag. Would something like that work?
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For, us, I would say 100% cotton sheets are a must, but if the rest of the place is nice, and you know that they might be hard to get in that country, hosts are forgiven.
My Mom rented a place once that hadn’t been cleaned yet so that’s an obvious amenity that was lacking. I couldn’t believe it!
I would say that very clear directions and lighting at the door for entry are a must for remote or no-contact guests. And step by step written out in plain language for older folks if it is digital. I certainly appreciated both of the above at strs I’ve stayed in.
More than enough towels and hand towels are also nice. Heating and A/c!
We would also expect a kitchen that has everything they say they do and it works properly and is decent quality, with directions, if you think it might be hard to use. What one person thinks is a no-brainer, another might find perplexing. So many homes are automated by phone direction these days, a stay at that type of place would drive me bonkers. We have had guests that couldn’t find the switch on the ring on the ceiling for the overhead bathroom light, so I always make them turn that on during intro to the str. It’s not really an amenity but I know that our guests really appreciate the time I give them during the welcome tour, which is about 10 minutes, if we don’t start chatting about a shared interest.
We travel with the correct cords and ports we need, and just use a wall outlet plug in. Because our listing is an old trailer >Tiny Tiki Retro Hideaway< there are not really many wall outlets so there are power strips in sight.
We have fairly good lighting, 2 lamps and overhead lighting in the observation lounge, and outside lighting, but I must admit I recently found a way to improve the kitchen and bedside lighting. Honestly we have got maybe 3 slightly negative comments about anything in 5 years. We have more than enough matching dinnerware, cookware, cups, flatware and glassware. If two people stayed 3 days they would have enough to use and not choose to wash their dishes until the end of their stay.
Our jewel box bathroom has four teensy shelves. Still there are burn marks on the toilet seat from large hair curler appliances.
I just found out from our house sitter that the little smart tv we have in the rental, the remote didn’t work. Never heard about this from guests!
I used to naively think that if a property had a kitchen, it would have all the stuff necessary. What I consider necessary, that is.
Everyone differs though. I once stayed in a lovely place - one of the best locations ever, super-clean, even one of those full length mirrors that makes you look a couple of dress sizes smaller than you really are. 
But the owner and I obviously had different priorities. There was a nutmeg grater, which is something completely off my radar but not a single glass of any kind, let alone a couple of decent wine glasses.
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My Mil rented a place, property managed, for at least 8 in Catalina Island, $$$, that had the worst and fewest kitchen and dining amenities you can imagine! And she kept going back! Unbelievable!
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I do that with the outside door to my kitchen. Have the guest actually lock and unlock it. They are double louvered doors, and lock side slides in front of the other, so when you unlock it, you can’t just push on it to open- you have to push where the hinges are on the louvered part. Also the key turns the opposite way to the key to their room to lock and unlock.
I’m usually home and the kitchen door is wide open or unlocked, but I don’t want guests to have trouble getting into the kitchen if I’m out for the day and have locked it.
There is a window there. Between the window and the medicine cabinet there is maybe 10 inches where a shelf could go, but it would look like an afterthought
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I could put a small shelf but it would not look very good.
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There is a bit of wall space, but not very much…
I will stare at it some more when I clean tomorrow.
RR
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Another alternative could be a hanging basket.
But a medicine cabinet qualifies as shelves- I guess the shelves might not be deep enough to set a toiletry bag on, but would hold their stuff if they removed it from the bag. But a guest who’s only staying a night or two probably wouldn’t do that.
Perhaps a very small dimensions but tall floor stand/ shelf to fit behind your commode would function well. I have had these in other spaces and they can be surprisingly functional and decent looking. You might be able to find one that can not have storage space in front of the window.
Toilet wall @tiny tiki. This is not a mini toilet, but not a large one either. >Our whole 250 sq ft space and its bathroom especially is certainly unusable by overly fat or very tall people. Doesn’t seem to affect the love we get…
There is a large cabinet door on the left that has a small chain attached to keep it from hitting the shelves when opened. I do not think the upper shelves are used very much. Everything in the tiny space took thought and some ingenuity. A special glass shelf was sent to me from Ukraine, before the war, which was made in the Soviet era.
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As a person who’s only 5’4", high shelves and cabinets are something I definitely didn’t include when I designed my place. When I stay with friends or family, I often either have to get a stool to reach even commonly used things like dishes, or ask someone to reach it for me.
Of course there’s a few places in my house I need a chair to reach, but the things I store there are those I rarely need to access- suitcases, totes with out-of-season bedding, etc.
Shower heads are often mounted too high for me, making it hard not to get my hair wet if I just want a quick non-hair-washing shower, the rain heads being the worst.
you could reach those shelves and touch the ceiling in there I’d guess
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Yeah, those shelves look high, if it were a regular house with a shelf that close to the ceiling but trailer ceilings are pretty low, I forgot.
I had a boyfriend who bought an old school bus to live in. He didn’t really pay attention to the ceiling height when he bought it- turned out it was 6 ft. and he was 6’2". He had to walk around in it with his head cocked to the side. 
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I see some free standing tips in the post- Ikea often has good suggestion’s too
We just renovated our kitchen (hallelujah! I had wanted to do that since we bought the house), and the new upper cabinets go up to 8 feet because we have very high ceilings. One of the base cabinets holds a foldable stool to help our housekeeper and others access the higher shelves of the upper cabinets.
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Maybe ot would look less improvised if the outer corner of the shelf was rounded. I don’t mean a rounded edge, I mean the footprint was rounded
This is the space, window above toilet. People end up with their overnight bag on the toilet i am guessing…
To complicate things further, the flush button on top of the toilet tank so if i put a shelf even with the sink above toilet people would not see where to flush, possibly leading to more issues…;
lol
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Don’t really think guests would be down with a bathroom window you can’t close curtains or a blind on.
A shelf could be attached to the bottom piece of the window frame, though. That woulld be high enough above the toilet flusher and still allow for the window to be opened and the blind accessed.
But I’d say if RiverRock, who I think has been hosting for a long time, has never had a guest complain about not having space to put their toiletries, it’s not worth fussing over putting up a shelf if there’s really no viable and logical place to put one.
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