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To have expected that the owners of this holiday let would not be living in the building.

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WatchingCometsLand · 29/07/2025 10:42

^https://www.vrbo.com/en-gb/p1975005a^

We spent 3k on this holiday (our first in years). Turns out that we get the top floor and the owners live below. They enter and exit with their vans via two garage doors immediately below our bedroom windows, through the garden.

Were we unreasonable to have expected this to be stated in the advertisement?

The noise is particularly problematic - we have been woken late at night and then first thing in the morning.

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dogcatkitten · 29/07/2025 10:54

Have you pointed out that there was no indication they would be staying there?

JaffavsCookie · 29/07/2025 10:50

You are definitely not being unreasonable, that is an utter piss take.
Good luck with getting anything back from vrbo though, we had an issue last year where we rented a house with six bedrooms and one of them turned out just to be a mezzanine off another, with no privacy or even the headroom to stand up in.
Definitely leave reviews making this point absolutely clear, but imo it is misleading and not as described.

SwedishEdith · 29/07/2025 10:50

One of the reviews mentions something about the owners being incredibly discreet. I'm a bit paranoid about things like this so may have sent a few questions about the pool and if anyone else uses it. Too late now and I'd feel pissed off if I thought we'd have privacy and then find we hadn't.

Belladog1 · 29/07/2025 10:48

It does say 'entire home' so I would be absolutely fuming. They do have 10/10 reviews though, so I'm hugely surprised that no one else has complained about the misleading advert.

Autumn1990 · 29/07/2025 10:45

The advert does clearly say it’s a country house and not a flat so I would complain and leave appropriate reviews

Hermanfromguesswho · 29/07/2025 10:44

It definitely says ‘entire home’ at the top of the listing!