Would you follow this rule?

Because I want to, and it’s not unreasonable when I’m paying for accommodation. Drinks in particular.

if I were an invited guest at someone’s house, that is different

I wouldn’t take food upstairs because I don’t eat in bed.

I would take a cup of tea upstairs because I’m a grown adult and relaxing in bed with a cup of tea in the morning is something I like to do, which has no impact on anyone else and which the Airbnb owner isn’t ever going to know about.

I’ve been drinking tea in bed for about 35 years now and I’ve yet to spill one, so I’m not terribly concerned about that risk.

The mere thought of having a cup of tea while sitting in bed makes you physically vomit? Really?

Take a travel cup up with you! A cuppa in bed is one of the great pleasures of holiday, surely.

A cup of tea or coffee in bed is one of life’s great joys! I have a little bedside coffee maker for this purpose.

i do completely despair at the food mess my eldest leaves around the house but ARFID +’ASD + ADHD means I pick my battles - he can’t cope with food smells sometimes so I let him take a meal to his bedroom if he can’t manage eating at the dinner table. Whatever gets him eating.

Yes I would, why would you take food or drink upstairs anyway.

Or maybe you’re not well suited at being guests!

I think it’s a bit of a daft rule to impose in a holiday let.

Firstly it feels overbearing - people want to relax on holiday and petty rules set the wrong tone.

Most people the worst that is going to happen is a few crumbs - well you’re hoovering and changing the bedl linen between guests so no big deal.

Actual damage (curry stains on carpet etc) should be covered in a damage deposit.

And probably the biggest factor: people most likely to do stupid stuff like eat curry in bed and make a mess are also the same people who are likely to totally ignore house rules.

Basically you’re probably pissing off the reasonable majority of guests who are careful and doing almost nothing to stop the careless, don’t-give-a-damn guests behaving badly.

I’m the same.
No food upstairs in our house.

I would assume the rule is there to prevent food being smeared into the carpet or red wine stains on white bedding. I would also assume it makes it easier for owners to ask for contributions towards any damage - I would not think they would protest against someone having a cup of tea in bed. I really don’t think anyone would begrudge that…

Holiday lets aren't public places or hotels. It's not illegal to smoke inside them (though usually it's requested that you don't). As you can see by comments on here, a lot of people are used to not eating in bedrooms too.

I don’t take food upstairs at home, but I do tea and coffee, so yes, if I was staying somewhere like that, I would still take a drink up with me.

Bugger all is going to happen if I did it.

We brought our daughter up to eat at the dining table. She has never expressed a wish to eat a meal in bed.

Why do people drink tea in bed? If you're awake, why wouldn't you get up to drink your tea? You can just as easily (probably more easily) drink tea sitting in a chair.

I have 3 and they know that food is eaten downstairs not in bedrooms (I never minded them having snacks in their rooms for sleepovers but not drinks other than water which is pretty much all they’ve ever drunk, sticky spilled drinks seeping into carpet - no thanks - but as a rule no food upstairs).
Well technically 2 of them are now adults and one of them takes a cuppa up with her when getting dressed in the morning.

I’m having a cup of tea in bed right now in an Airbnb so no I wouldn’t. It’s the kind of rule they don’t put on the booking page so you arrive and it’s in the sheet there. Ignore. I don’t let my kids have food upstairs anyway so they’re fine, but I’m an adult who’s going to have tea in bed on holiday when I don’t have to spring up for work.

If rules are sensible and I can see they’re based on logic I’ll obey them. If not I happily ignore them. This one falls into the latter category.

Pre-2020, yes; I was a stickler for rules then, petty or not.

In 2020, I changed my mind, when were bombarded with absurd roolz, many of which made no sense, and some of them made up on the spot (no more than an hour out per day, quoth Michael Gove, improvising it in an interview). And guess what? I have felt much freer ever since.

If the rule was clearly advertised when I booked I'd stick to it, presumably having already decided the accommodation was worth the inconvenience.

If it was sprung as a surprise on arrival I would think it was cheeky and wouldn't necessarily stick to it.

Hotel rooms have tea and coffee making facilities and a mini bar with snacks. Id take a drink up.

I don’t think you have a right to sell your home for money, then dictate small details like this.

if I’m a visitor at another home, that’s different.

Can’t have it both ways

The problem is that weird rules like this often only appear in the "welcome pack" and not in the pre-booking information so difficult to avoid.

I'd mostly follow it but I would still take water up to bed. I would take it in a bottle so it's not easily spillable though. I need water in the middle of the night and I'm not traipsing up and down stairs for it.

I wouldn't take anything else, or food, up though.

First response nails it.

I'm gobsmacked by how many posters say they don't ever take any food or drink into their bedrooms at home - presumably none of you have teenagers 😂