AirBnB visitors

[Finfintytint]

Just wondering if, as an Airbnb visitor, you tap up the locals for information?
There is a pretty cottage opposite us in a lovely village location.
Nearly every weekend we get a chap on the door from guests asking about local pubs, restaurants and local visitor attractions and what would we recommend?
Is this a thing?
Happy to oblige but have they never heard of Google and especially trip advisor?
You can get a signal in the village ( even if you have to hang upside down from the bathroom window).
Are holidaymakers just excited to connect with locals?

Are you in the uk?

If you know the owners of the AirBnB ask them to leave a notebook/whiteboard with the names of recommended restaurants, activities etc. detailed on it. I'd never knock on someone's door asking for such information.

Most Airbnb hosts leave this kind of information for their guests. Looks like these hosts might not have done that. I don't think it's usual at all to knock on someone's door for this reason.

Mid Wales so not exactly out of touch with the tourist industry.
I don’t really mind but it’s not something I’d do.

Everyone will have written in the visitors book that the lady opposite loves giving out advice to tourists. They probably think they're doing you a favour by giving you someone new to chat to.

Unusual to knock and ask. I would ask the owners to put some info in the property.

Jocasta, ha ha, you’ve probably hit the nail on the head!

Wouldn’t dream of disturbing neighbours if we were staying in a holiday cottage; I reckon it’s something along the lines of Jocasta’s suggestion too! Still wouldn’t if it was me, but I’m an introvert.

Be honest OP

How many time has this actually happened?

I wouldn't knock on someone's door, but I'd far rather get local recommendations than rely on TA or Google.

I might ask if I got chatting to you while walk8ng the dog etc but I’d never knock on your door!

Yes, don’t really mind but sometimes I’m in my pyjamas early evening and not in the mood to be a tourist information point. I love my village and want everyone to be enthusiastic about it as I am , but I am not employed by Wales Tourism.
Please keep coming. It’s a fab place.

Weight query, lived here three years and about the same time as the bnb has been available. In honesty about once a month or more. We are a mirror cottage on a private road. I’m not an unfriendly person but when you live on a major tourist route it can be a little intrusive but I’m happy to accommodate.

Once a month for last three years guests have knocked on your door for recommendations?

Do you have strangers knocking on your door asking for recommendations a couple of times a month?

No

And I don’t believe you do either! Couple of times a moth for last three years. Sure

There was an article a few years ago written by someone who lived remotely on Exmoor saying they regularly got asked for all sorts of favours by walkers, including a lifts back to the nearest village.
The trouble is each one is an individual, unaware of the others!

Weightquery, not sure why you are playing competitive tourism but try living within yards of Offas Dyke. It’s a thing. A nice thing but still a thing. Tourists love it and think you are part and parcel of the attraction.

@Weightquery why can you not believe something happens just because it doesn't happen to you? So strange!

OP I would politely message the owners through the Air BnB app and ask them to leave information for their guests, or a sign asking them not to disturb the neighbours.

Perfectly plausible that the only cottage in the vicinity of the holiday let gets people asking stuff like that. Someone I know lived on a very popular walking route and members of the public would often knock on the door to ask for local information.

OP, send a message via Airbnb if you don't personally know the owner and ask them to provide an info booklet for their guests

You know, the poster who says someone might have written something in the book about you might be on to something. I would ask the owner to check it out.

I definitely think the OP is recommended by the guests for her local knowledge and friendliness

What is the internet like where you are?

Maybe people can't use Google.

I'm a Londoner so wouldn't knock on a strangers door, unless it was a life or death situation.. I'm aware other people aren't quite as "boundaried"

They don't think you are the owner do they? I wonder if the owner has said they live close by and the guests automatically assume it's the closest house.

It’s because AirBNB feels friendlier/ more local than a hotel. You’d ask reception in hotel and DIY with internet.

If you are renting someone locals house for a few nights in it just feels more natural to ask neighbours or at the pub etc.. I can see how it’s annoying though.

Just put a note on the door

"Mumsnetter in Residence. No Knocks ever Answered, No Visitors"
~That includes YOU, MIL.