Airbnb host being petty?

[donewithwinter]

We stayed in a Airbnb on Saturday a lovely little cottage. I made sure I cleaned the whole place before I left even though I paid £21 cleaning fee.

Their was a tiny bin in the kitchen which wouldn't fit everything in so we left our McDonald's bag on top of it and put dd's nappy inside the bin in a nappy bag.

She just send me a message asking why I didn't take the nappies with me the whole cottage stinks and why did I leave rubbish on top of the bin. And she found a chocolate stain on the side of the table.

Chocolate stain whatever I must of missed it but honestly who on earth takes nappies home with them?!

@SleepingStandingUp 🤣🤣🤣

@WWYDhelpplease I hope you take all your nappies home with you next time you stay somewhere. Ridiculous!

What does she think other small businesses do with the contents of their baby change and toilet bins?

I’m assuming all you peoplesaying you would take the nappy home also don’t put nappy’s or sanitary products in the toilet bins in cafes or shops.

We'd use the bin provided, but there wasn't one in this case. As the OP was only there for a day, the easiest thing really does seem to take the rubbish home and politely point out that the cottage should come with a bin.

But Calvins posted has made me think that the owner would be subject to commercial waste charges, that she doesn't want to pay, which is understandable if the cottage isn't let out very much, but she does need to provide rubbish facilities as longer stays would be completely unworkable without a bin.

She is a new host so maybe that is why I have replied and told her to invest in an outside bin if she doesn't want the kitchen bin being used for nappies.

Sensible response OP. I'm baffled by all these people travelling with suitcases full of litter and waste. And I certainly don't want my luggage packed in with theirs under the coach.

Targaryen makes an excellent point about it being ILLEGAL to put household waste in public litter bins. So those of you packing black bags really would have to take it all the way home with you.
I'm curious, would you only apply this within the UK or also from further afield? France or Spain for example?

And yes, what about used sanitary products?

Also, which scores higher in the top trumps of outrage? Left behind rubbish or The Law?

For example, Scarborough Council charges £175 per year.

FFS, anyone suggesting they would just take the rubbish home, are only suggesting they'd do this if they are in a car and it's only a day or two's worth of rubbish. Because it seems like it's the easiest common sense no fuss solution.

And as well as it being illegal to put this litter in a public bin, it's also illegal to remove it from the property unless you have a waste transfer licence, ie collected by a proper waste company, or the owner could get her own waste transfer licence and take it to the tip herself. Which is the bit I suspect she is falling down on.

It's their own fault for not having an outside bin.

YABU. Regardless of whether you paid a cleaning bill or not it is the decent thing to empty all bins and take it outside the property to dispose of. Nappies in my own house go straight in the outside bin as even with a nappy bag they smell the house out quite quickly.

it is the decent thing to empty all bins and take it outside the property to dispose of
Yes op, leave bags of rubbish outside for the local wildlife to get into and the pedestrians to trip over. I'd MUCH rather have your pooey nappy chewed up over the pavement than contained in a bin

LeSquigh Where was she to take it to?

You did nothing wrong, there were no outside bins for your rubbish. I would not have been taking rubbish home with me 🤷🏻‍♀️ Other option was to leave it outside but I wouldn't have done that either in case a fox or something had burst the bag and left stuff everywhere.

We stayed in a cottage that had no outside bin. We bagged up the rubbish in black bin bags, including several dog pooh bags and left them outside the back door.

No I wouldn’t take food wrappers with me but I also wouldn’t leave my child’s shitty nappy on top of a bin for another person to deal with. That’s human waste that’s disgusting. If you really did “clean the windows” before you left, after a one night stay, would it not have been a better idea to put that energy into finding the outside bin (yes! Take your child’s nappy with you) I assure you exists? Or a street bin? You find it crazy you’d take your child’s nappy with you but not crazy a stranger doesn’t want to deal with it? This is why it’s so hard to get air bnb accommodation when you’re travelling with a baby because people do gross things like this and ruin it for everyone else when the host quite rightly doesn’t want to deal.

Know this post has made mumsnet madness on twitter and absolutely no one outside the mums on here that can’t understand why their children’s shit is other people’s problem thinks this host is being petty. At all. Learn from this and apologise and hopefully salvage your feedback rating if you ever want to use air bnb again.

I run an Airbnb.

As soon as guests leave I go and empty all the bins, a bagged nappy or indeed a bin full of bagged nappies would not cause me any issues.

I don't charge for cleaning, nor do I expect guests to clean before they leave.

my child’s shitty nappy on top of a bin
It was IN the bin wrapped in two other bags. Hardly artfully arranged in the kitchen top for the owner

Or a street bin?
Illegal

You find it crazy you’d take your child’s nappy with you but not crazy a stranger doesn’t want to deal with it?
Leaving a pile of nappies stacked up for a few days to take 4 hours on train and buses vs picking up a rubbish bin. Hardly the same

It doesn’t matter where it was it’s human waste. Your child your problem. Grotty behaviour.

Dumping domestic waste ie mass bulk mail in a street bin can be fined. Binning one nappy is not illegal.

Although if you think leaving your child’s soiled nappies in a rented home for someone else to deal with is acceptable there I doubt anyone’s going to change your mind.

There is nothing wrong with leaving a soiled nappy, double bagged and in a bin. No one can be expected to keep them all while on holiday and leave with them. That’s just weird.

But by your logic Cfmcg it becomes the bin man's problem when he has to empty the public bin, so unless he's the baby daddy how does that help?? And I've seen them go round public bins literacy emptying it with a grabber. Surely pulling up and possiy ripping a nappy bag, dropping it onto the floor is worse than someone picking up BI N HANDLES and carrying the whole thing to the bin.

Storing 20 dirty nappies in your bedroom for a week then carting them home on public transport is disgusting.

Practically every one on here who rents out properties has said as there was no out door bin it was perfectly reasonable to double bag it and put uti nto a bin bag.

God I wouldn't wanna stop next to your in a hiday let in Summer with a pile of rotty old poo nappies accumulating!!

I don't understnad why you didn't ask her where the outside bin was, given that you knew you would need to put at least one stinky nappy in it

Yanbu I would never think to take rubbish home with me and as for the nappy then I’d say it was their problem for not providing outside bins. You’ve paid a £21 cleaning fee and they still expect you to stink your own car out?!

Surely if you let an Airbnb to a family with a baby you have to accept that there will be shitty nappies involved. What did the owner expect?

B-b-but Cfmcg, it's not human waste, it's only an weeny bit of baby pooh-pooh. From an ickle bayyybeee. It doesn't smell bad. All these beastly people (who obviously don't have childwen themselves) saying that baby ploppy-woppies have nasty germs and are gross need to grow up.

Storing 20 dirty nappies in your bedroom for a week then carting them home on public transport is disgusting

Who does that? Do you mean to say that on holiday, you stay in the cottage for the whole duration? You don't go anywhere? Not even to eat? Because there are these marvellous things in the majority of female public toilets called sanitary waste bins. That's where considerate people tend to put used nappies.

What did you do with the other nappies from the trip? Presumably you changed more than one nappy there.

Everyone is acting like you left a soiled nappy in the middle of the living room. It was double bagged and in a bin!! Fair enough about the smell but it’s not as though the owners had to touch any of it!