Came back from a lovely self catering holiday in a cottage
Night before leaving cleaned the place thoroughly. Mopped all floors. Hoovered the rug. Washed and dried all towels we'd used.
Saturday morning just before leaving I straightened a chair and it knocked over a vase. And smashed it.
I'd no idea how much it was worth so left a note (I thought) swept up the bits and popped them in the bin.
Lady phoned me today (cottage owner) did I know anything about a missing vase. Said I'd left a note but apparently it wasn't there?
She said the vase was 15 years old and expensive £200 when bought new. She would take £100 as a replacement amount.
She asked if I used the hoover I said yes she said when the cleaner came to use it it wasn't working it was only a month old. I said it was working fine when I used it and it was.
Also she said some of the cleaning items were missing from the cottage (i used their bleach and disinfectant) and also there were no loo rolls left in the house or kitchen rolls. I used my own kitchen rolls and loo rolls.
She said she was aware that we had damage insurance. I was going to send her the money for the vase but am going to hold fire until I've spoken to the insurance company.
fed up feel like I can't have done much more than I did?
AIBU?
holiday cottage damage
careergirl · 17/08/2010 23:43
Once stayed in a B & B within Wales in the wilds of nowhere at the end of a winding valley where the only other building was a big old Welsh chapel and graveyard.
The place (and owners) were fab. I was with two (female) friends and first night we sat up with them exchanging ghost stories and they told us this place was haunted and all about their spooky experiences when they were renovating it.
We were in a room up a short flight of stairs off the first floor - kind of like an attic room and it had a basin etc. but no bathroom ensuite. The loo was down on the first floor.
My friend woke up in the night busting for a pee and was too terrified to go downstairs so in desperation she climbed up on the basin and peed in that! Only trouble is, when she was halfway through the basin fell off the wall. Right off the wall, ripping all the plaster off and everything!
We decided to 'come clean' with the owners and told them the truth about what happened, rather than say we'd just leant on it, or it had fell off of it's own accord 
. They laughed so hard and told us not to worry - it was their fault for scaring us.
send her a dirty dishcloth in the post as a replacement 
I was in a holiday cottage recently with an original Clarice Cliff vase. I was 
And it wasn't a grand let at all - just an ordinary wee cottage in the wilds of the north of Scotland.
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Yes, she is trying to pull a fast one!
We recently rented a cottage in Nova Scotia, and it was loaded with antiques and a very expensive looking telescope.
Then, after we left, we went to a hotel, and we accidently stole one of their pillows! 
I realized the next night, at a different hotel, when I got our pillows from the car, and I phoned them and let them know I would send a check to reimburse them. They sent me an e-mail saying to forget about it, they'd much rather we returned to stay again some day. How nice is that!
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