Taking bins out at luxury Air Bnb?

[AirportLife]

Very first world concern by the way! Just interested if this is the norm or not. We are staying in a very special "luxury" Air Bnb in a European city for DH's big birthday. The place cost me a lot of hard earned money to rent for a weekend as a one-off treat. It's very luxurious and lovely. The manager of the AirBnb has asked us to take our rubbish to the bins before we check out. The bins are a 5-10 minute walk down the block.

I thought that as the place is getting cleaned etc we would be ok to leave rubbish? (We don't have much as we have been out everyday anyway.)

Is this to be expected or a bit annoying? Again I know it's only a first world problem and I'm not too precious to take the bins out, but I'm just asking as I was surprised, and thought that a luxury special holiday is the one time I might not have to do the bins.

It's quite normal.

I would always expect to have to remove my rubbish if staying in a self catering unit. I guess it depends what kind of place you are staying in though as to whether it is normal or not.

I rent out self catering properties and we always expect people to remove their rubbish. Many don't, even though it is clear on all the booking information.

Every self-catering I've stayed at, from basic to luxurious, required us to empty bins on the last day. Completely standard.

I’m sure that you will have peop,e telling you that you are unreasonable but I agree with you. What is the (usually quite steep) cleaning fee for? We stayed at an Airbnb in the U.K. last autumn and they wanted us to strip the beds and put the bed linen and towels in a special place etc., as well as taking out the rubbish.

Since when did luxury equate to being too entitled to clear your own shit?!

Take the bins out already!

Stuff like this is why i use hotels and not airbnb

Definitely take the bins down.

The ‘promise’ of Airbnb is living like a local. That includes tidying up after yourself, and getting rid of any rubbish you’d generated.

Yes, we even had to follow special recycling rules at ours, as that was the way it was collected using about 7 bins! Quite confusing for a 7 night stay.

But yes, bins, dishes and a wipe around so the cleaner cleans and maybe puts away a few draining dishes, but not any horrible personal grime. That's my view.

Absolutely. Don't be like our Airbnb neighbours who dumped 7 bags of rubbish in our garden refuse bins.

It’s probably to do with rubbish collection times.

but if you don’t want to do it, don’t. The cleaner will pick it up.

Surely luxury is about the actual accommodation, not service? I'd expect not to have to wash towels and bedding on departure because of the logistics but taking out rubbish would be no different to home.

If you don't have much, then it's no big deal? Just take it out when you leave, put it in the bin.

Tip for you - never ever leave your waste for someone else to dispose of.

I completely agree OP.
An £80 cleaning fee should surely cover taking out the rubbish!

Separate point, but I hate the cleaning fee anyway - why can't they just roll it into the price of the stay? They manage to put different nightly rates depending on how many nights you book so why the heck can't they incorporate the cost of cleaning too? It really annoys me, as you think you've found something at £x but when you go to book, you have to add on £80.

Imagine if they did that at hotels....!

I've never stayed anywhere self-catering that didn't require you to sort your own rubbish and empty the bins at the end.

The whole point of self-catering is you do it all yourself as if it was your house, surely?

I agree OP, if they are charging a cleaning fee, it should be included (if not, then you should take out)

Air BnB ‘hosts’ set the rules. Check before you buy!

Agree this rule is at odds with a ‘luxury’ offer and target market.

DOI: I used to live in a building where there were two Airbnbs. There’s a special place in hell reserved for ‘guests’ who don’t sort their own rubbish or leave it for the cleaner. It’s not a hotel, you’re in a building/area where people actually live. It isn’t hard to sort rubbish/recycling. It’s akin to using the toilet and not flushing it because ‘the cleaner will do it’. Grrrr 🤬

We have an Air BnB property and basically if the guests don't do it then the cleaners will and they will charge us for it. Not specifically for the bins but for how long they spend cleaning and if it is a 5 minute walk to the bins, depending on how many bags there are, they could charge the owners for an extra 30 minutes. This is why places ask you to strip beds, take bins out etc, so they don't have to pay their cleaners to do it.

We don't ask guests to do anything. Most people strip beds and take out rubbish, and leave it in a reasonable state, but all the MNers who spend the last day of their holiday cleaning and hoovering are only saving the owners the cost of the cleaning.

Agree OP, the huge cleaning fee should cover this. You wouldn't have to do it in a hotel. Tidying up after yourselves yes, but wheeling a bin down the street is not on.

Are you sure the bins are ten minutes walk away? Most people can walk half a mile in that time. 🤔🤔

If the bins were just outside, of course - we always take the bin bag and recycling out whether in a caravan, cottage, air bnb (luxury or otherwise!). It's just polite and we do it whether requested to or not.

However if the bins were genuinely ten minutes away then no chance. That's a completely unreasonable expectation regardless of how much you paid.

Airbnb advertise the pricing that way so the headline cost appears cheaper. It's just marketing.

You can almost always rent a property cheaper if they advertise elsewhere, particularly if it's via the owners' website. We recently saved £200 for a week's stay by avoiding Airbnb. It can be a huge rip off.

Pretty standard. My big bear is complicated recycling and unclear instructions and not enough receptacles in the house to store the stuff until you take it to the bin.

I really object to stripping beds through. I think I've only been asked to do that once.

It would never even occur to me to empty the bins at an air bnb. I've stayed at a few and there's never been anything or anyone telling us we should. I assumed it was included in the cleaning fee and we leave the rest of the accommodation spotless.