Things you don't want in a holiday let ...

[LindorDoubleChoc]

I'll start.

Decorative cushions on the beds! Absolutely no thank you. They're quite irritating on the sofas ... but on the beds! Just why?

Another one - quite specific to where I'm staying now - unwashed cooker hood filters. They make the whole kitchen smell of dirty ovens.

Also ... it's nice if all the mirrors and the glass shower screen are done properly.

We once stayed in a 'family friendly' Airbnb where the host messaged ahead of time to warn us not to damage the particularly special art

Fast forward to turning up with 2 DC to a house where every room had borderline porn on the walls!

Also when the place smells of dog . I hate it.

Power sockets too far from the bed so bedside lights can't be turned on or off from in bed.

Nowhere to hang towels in bathroom: they might look pretty rolled up on a shelf but that's not going to work when they're wet!

Double beds smaller than king size

Wardrobes with no coat hangers

Kitchens with no ice trays or mugs.

I attended a conference once where the accommodation was apartments belonging to faculty away for the summer.

One of the apartments had full length photo nudes of the family on a wall.

Maybe not that.

Please don't ask me to clean your property.

You earn a fair bit and you usually have a cleaning company to do this between 10 am and 4pm.

Don't ask me to replenish the three dishwasher tablets that you left for me for two weeks. That's stingy.

Please don't just have sherry schooners in your glass cabinet... wine glasses please.

Please don't supply one of those beige/green scrubby pads, CUT IN HALF!!!
Nor a J-Cloth, CUT IN HALF!!

Please don't leave a tray of over 20 scones with jam and cream. It's a total waste for two people and my husband is diabetic.

If there's an oven in the property, please supply a baking sheet and a roasting tin.

Can you please clean the rust off the bbq , too.
As well as tip the old ash out.

Sorry...on a rant .

Please supply more than two knives and forks!

Needing instruction manuals to use anything

God yes I agree with ornaments. When you arrive with toddlers and have to sweep through each room moving the breakable stuff out of reach!

And inoperable heating controls. We stayed in a place a couple of years ago which had some fancy smart thermostat thing which as a first you could adjust by turning the dial up or down but you couldn't turn it off or change the program and it would revert back overnight. The bloody thing was set to 21C IN SUMMER. Every day we turned it right down and every night we woke up sweating and had to get up to turn it down.

Fairly unfussy otherwise. When traveling by car we just take a box of kitchen stuff.

This! Why don't people put up proper curtains that attempt to block light? They might enjoy being woken by the sun in their eyes at 5am, but I'm on holiday and I want to sleep to a decent time.

Just why aren't blackout curtains standard for anyone letting out holiday places?

Hair in the shower

· Lack of cupboard space in the kitchen – we’re self catering. Where t f do we put the food?
· 100% decorative cushions anywhere.
· Lack of glasses – wine glasses, shorts glasses, tumblers and pint glasses as a minimum.
· Blunt knives in the kitchen – we don’t want to eat out for every meal, so to be able to prep something is a must.

We once stayed for a week in a house that had ornaments on every surface, plus every kitchen device you could ever imagine in including an electric egg boiler! We spent the week finding more ornaments in charity shops and strategically placing them in obscure places in the house, and trying to decide what we would do with 8 boiled eggs between the 2 of us (8, not 6? Why?)

2 toilet rolls for a family of five people for a week! Necessitating me needing to buy a large multi- pack because they don't have a smaller amount at the local store, which I then need to leave most of it behind as I don't wish to pack it.

Cushions are annoying. Especially if the bedroom has a small amount in f floor
Space

Does my head in whenever I stay at my mums too: 25 cushions in a tiny bedroom

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I came on to say this! It's so tight!
Also agree with complicated instructions regarding bins. We arrived at a cottage recently with bins overflowing with wine bottles/beer cans. It was bin day 2 days later and we were expected to wheel it down a drive that was about 1/4 mile long. Just no!

Uncomfortable sofas and sitting room chairs. Once stayed in a cottage furnished with what looked like throw outs from relatives. The sitting room furniture was wicker stuff that might have been new in the eighties. It creaked and was impossible to get comfy on. And they had crap curtains that didn’t fit the windows and smelly plug-ins, one of which eluded me for two days of searching ( under stairs cupboard, hidden behind an ironing board)

I'm away right now, overall it is good. Plenty of cutlery and glasses, but many many cushions. No oven gloves and no spare bin bags.

I always expect to have to buy loo roll so that comes with my shopping delivery.

Previous guest moaned about lack of pegs, having being stung before I always bring some with me just in case so I will leave them behind.

There's no instruction manuals, thank goodness for Google.

The one thing that has irked me is that they have asked us to strip the beds (don't mind that bit) and put it in a laundry bag because of COVID.

There is something great, a little feedback sheet which includes a place to report breakages (and a request to cover costs)

Loads of breakable ornaments in a holiday home that is obviously marketed at families with small children.

Bean-counting the energy usage on an £800+ a week holiday cottage. I don't want to do meter readings, I don't want you to tell me I can't change the heating temp or timer and I definitely don't want a prepayment meter.

Not enough cutlery and crockery. I want at least enough for two meals without washing up/using the dishwasher.

Tiny tea cups, I want mugs or a decent size tea pot.

give me pans you can cook a curry for 3-4 people

Decorative pillows on the bed, they just end on the floor.

too much decoration, we stayed at a flat where every surface was covered in ornatments, luckily DD was already a teen.

no polycotton duvet cover, I don't want to wash nightgowns/pjs every couple of days.

A super sharp sword and a blowtorch in an easy-to-reach unlocked cupboard in a holiday let specifically advertised as being toddler-friendly. Appreciate that’s pretty niche though

Not replenishing cleaning products
stating you have air conditioning but the unit is antique and badly located so you can’t feel any breeze.
In Europe- not having a kettle or microwave.

As if it is not bad enough to have plastic plants. Dusty ones 🤮

Tbf you aren’t staying at a hotel either.

It’s called self catering for a reason.

There are some very fussy people on here!

I am happy with most things, but proper light blocking curtains are a must.

The only bed thing I cannot tolerate is one of those beds that has a wooden frame which sticks out beyond the mattress. I stayed in a place with these beds recently and I cannot tell you how many times I banged my shins painfully on that fucker. In the end, I repurposed some of the throw cushions by tucking them in around the frame of the bed at each corner - looked a bit silly but my shins were covered in bruises by this point.

No thin pillows. I want two pillows per person as well. No mats in the bathroom. I'm OK with a rubber shower mat but it must be clean and show no signs of wear and tear. No pointless cook wear. I'm not baking on holiday, so no cupcake tins. I do want oven trays and enough of them.

A building site below where the men work on the refurbishment from 8pm - 12am

Entry codes that don’t work

A drain smell in the corridor of holiday apartment that turns your stomach and permeates whole apartment. (Husband is a builder and managed to locate and fix)

Cleaner who blasts music at 8am in above apartments.

Sounds like the holiday from hell but everything we have done in the area has been brilliant.