To not strip beds in holiday home?

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Arrived at holiday flat to find notes in both bedrooms requesting we strip the beds on leaving.

AIBU to find this cheeky? There's not so much as a spare loo roll laid on, the place isn't that clean & it's of course eye-wateringly expensive as it's August and by the seaside. (£800! For 2 bedrooms, for a week - and they charged us extra for towels!) Our choice, of course, to go ahead and book, but I didn't think I'd be asked to strip the chuffing beds at that price. AIBU?

I also do this in hotels too . TBH though , I do it mainly to be sure I don't leave dirty knickers under any bed . I used to hate hoovering them up and having to extract them from the end of the hoover , bleurgh !

Quickly add's not my knickers , I am very keen when it comes to retrieving my own , its just the others who are more lax .

We straighten the bedcovers but don't strip them. We always empty the rubbish bins and load and run the dishwasher. We wipe down the kitchen counter and that's it. We leave the owner/housekeeper to strip the beds and unload the clean dishes.

I wouldn't mind stripping the beds, but I feel like it would be interfering with whatever system they have. Having to wait for the dishwasher to finish do that we could unload it would be a real pain.

I strip the beds, and put the sheets plus towels in the bath. I fill the dishwasher and put it on and I empty the ins but that's my limit. I'm paying for a holiday cottage and the cleaning/prep for the next customer is part of the cost. If the owners can't afford cleaners or do it themselves to save money that's up to them, I'm not going on holiday to clean someone else's house.

I stayed at a lovely cottage in Cornwall recently where there was a good supply of things like dishwasher tabs, washing up liquid, salt and pepper etc. However, we either had to bring our own sheets and towels or hire them at a fairly extortionate price AND make up the beds for ourselves on arrival. AND there was a cheeky note in the property information asking us to leave the house as we expected to find it. Before leaving we did strip the beds, empty the bins, load the dishwasher and turn it on, and did a general wipe round in the kitchen and bathroom and hoovered the more obvious sand/crumbs, but given that they expected the house to be vacated by 10 and the next guests wouldn't be allowed in till 3 I reckoned they could organise any further cleaning for themselves.

I do it if the instructions say so.
last place we have been we made our own beds (everything provided) and then stripped upon leaving.

I always strip beds, put all used towels together in a pile etc, take bin out as we leave, clear fridge/cupboards out - but always leave anything that we've not opened as it might be useful to next guests or maybe the cleaner even ( this is in turkey not uk) also I would never leave dishes unwashed but sometimes leave last few things we've used before leaving washed and on the drainer. I tend to have done the floors & balconys whilst we've been there a few times anyway ( 4 messy dc's) and same with bathrooms, so I think I leave it pretty decentish, actually even was thanked by an owner once for leaving it so nice and I don't think I did anything major so I think some people must leave places in a complete state.
I think maybe I would feel differently if staying in a big organisation owned place but our holiday lets are peoples own holiday homes that they use themselves so like to leave it nice.

The turnaround time isn't that tight though. Last guests out by 10:00, next in at 16:00 - that's plenty of time to clean.

I generally put whichever child is getting most underfoot to do the bed stripping/piling stuff in bath.

I'd raise an eyebrow at being asked; not because of the task (2 minute job that we'd do anyway) but because it would raise warning bells of general persnicketiness.

Once had one lady email after our departure & accuse us of 'leaving the flat strewn with chicken feathers'. This puzzled us for some weeks, as no-one had even eaten chicken, much less plucked one on the premises, until we recalled that one of our housemates wore a feather boa for one night out. He may perhaps have shed slightly, but a) we hoovered & b) it was shocking pink - we'd have noticed if the place was 'strewn'!

So much depends on the house though, doesn't it. This one didn't provide any basics like salt and pepper, coffee etc and you had to pay for towels (gorgeous house but a whole folder of bossy instructions). But I've stayed at others where the welcome pack has included enough for an evening meal and breakfast the next day. I don't resent cleaning and tidying then.

I always strip beds, empty bins, run dishwasher and wash up breakfast things, quick Hoover because we're extremely messy and a wipe round of kitchen.

But we always go to the same cottage in Cornwall every year and I would hate to be known as a slattern.

Yanbu. I have stayed in a huge number of self catering places at all budgets and have never been asked to do this. Totally bonkers.

6 hours is just about right for cleaning if you do it properly. Sometimes you'd have spare time but if you're cleaning to a high standard you'd need that time.

Whenever we've stayed in cottages there's been home made cake/ scones and jam bread and wine- if they want the bed stripping I'm more than happy too Gwendoline

I've just got home from a week at Haven, we paid a grand for a week and there wasn't a single loo roll either, I didn't strip the beds before we left but the place was spotless

I think you have to remember that many holiday cottages are someone else's 2nd home which they use and care about themselves. In areas like Devon & Cornwall where there is a lot of holiday business and most people change over on a Saturday, cleaners may well be having to clean several properties on one day and just because you check out at 10 and the next person isn't in until 4 doesn't mean that they have 6 hours to clean your property.

There is nothing wrong with a polite note asking people to spend a few minutes stripping beds. It's a little extra consideration for the cleaners too who are just people trying to do a good job.

We have our own holiday house. We don't rent it out but we always strip the beds before we leave, leave towels in laundry baskets, take out rubbish, load dishwasher, etc, out of courtesy for our cleaners.

I find packing up to leave a holiday cottage by 10am quite rushed with two young children, particularly when you've just had a week of leisurely mornings. We try to pack up and tidy up as much as possible the night before, then I ensure all dishes are washed, dried and put away, floor swept, surfaces wiped and fridge emptied. We never manage to leave much before 10 though, and last time we were on holiday I didn't manage bed-stripping, although I didn't worry too much as we weren't asked to.

The last place I stayed in only had about 1 loo roll so we had to buy more - I'm never sure whether we need to bring it or not, as some places provide plenty. I wouldn't mind the information folder having a note to say that if you have the time, stripping the beds would be helpful, but I'm a bit resentful at being asked to do it. If I get time, I try and do it. Holiday cottages are not cheap in the summer holidays and the price you pay includes a clean at the end.

10am stresses me out. I am virtually crawling under the furniture and opening and reopening drawers double checking for belongings. I get all stressy again when we have to hand the key in. 'Just one last check' I annoy myself.

We stayed in one where we were provided washing up liquid, washing powder, dishwasher tablets as well as some complimentary toiletries and some biscuits! All we were asked to do was take out the bins (note on top of bin telling us where rubbish went) I stripped the beds we used and piled this up along with towels we used. Mainly did it as there were more towels than we needed and we had bedding we didn't use. Didn't full on clean though just washing up, wiping down sides and I had hoovered the day before we left.

Cleaning inside cupboards is insane! -I don't do that at home-

I don't tidy up after myself too much in hotels - but in self catering accommodation I do.

Currently in a house in France - It is the owners' own house, so we have brought along our own bedding and towels anyway.

I shall clean the place thoroughly before we leave. All four beds and four bathrooms. Yikes.

Also I'll clean out the fridge and sweep the floors.

There is a cleaner who comes in after us, but I don't want to leave the place at all dirty or messy and be perhaps liable to losing some of our deposit!

So, yes, stripping the beds would be something I would do anyway.

We have a 6hr turnaround and it does take our cleaner that long. The place needs to be cleaner than you'd put up with in your own house- inside of kitchen cupboards and fridge/ freezer every week, 5 beds stripped and remade, shower screens, doors and windows sparkling, etc. plus stuff you don't think about like taking recycling to the tip if it won't fit in the bins. we ask guests to clean the bbq after use ( but it still usually needs a once over) and to put rubbish in the outside bin on the drive, but to leave beds made up as easier to bag them by room for the laundry.

We're just recently back, and the people we rented from had a list on their website of things they would provide so we knew there would be loo roll, kitchen roll, washing up liquid, hand wash etc. They provided mini toiletries (which we didn't use but was a nice touch) and left us juice cartons and biscuits set out for the children which I thought was really nice

I'm not impressed at stories of people instructed to wash the towels ready for the next people - how are you supposed to have time to do that if you're leaving at 10? would you not be leaving wet towels? The people we rented from had 4 cottages, and a garage with washing machine and dryer for all to use - wouldn't have been time for everyone to wash and dry their towels. I presume that they have full sets of bedding and towels and just swap them over on changeover day. Then they also know that stuff has been washed to their standard.

We didn't strip the beds in ours, it wasn't requested, and I wasn't sure what we would do with the big fluffy blankets that had been neatly draped across the bed (which we put in a cupboard straight away on arrival) and I'd put the towels in the bath. We did clean round and I was practically wiping after us as we ushered the children out. It was clear that they had their own cleaning routine though - we arrived to the toilet all blue with cleaner and the loo roll folded to a point. We did have to wash a few plates through so I think the people before us hadn't been too thorough.

I'd expect to strip beds in a hostel or a small place like a retreat centre run by a small staff, where you're often asked to.

But not for that price; plus, taken along with the no loo roll/skimpy dishwashing tablets/charge for towels etc, it all sounds very penny-pinching and unhospitable.

I'd be tempted not to strip the beds to make a point, but I'm a bolshy mare.

Surprising thread. We stay in a cottage in the Lakes every year and we've done villas and apartments in Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast in the last couple of years too. We've never been asked to strip a bed, wash a towel or anything at all! The cleaners are always usually waiting to go in on the morning we leave. I like to leave a place nice but any demands would put me right off and I wouldn't be returning.

I just had to clean the coffee machine before using it, many things have a sticky layer of old dust. My bare foot stuck to a sticky patch on a rug just now. The place is tiny, 6 hours would render it sparkling, tbh 3 would. And I feel we've paid for a sea view we only partially access bc the windows are dirty.

Nevertheless, had they not asked, and not been so tight generally, I'd likely have stripped the beds.

Christ, who wants to spend their last day on holiday cleaning, when there'll be a cleaner in the day you leave anyway. Some of the stories on here are bizarre. Must be lovely for the cleaner to come in and find all their work done for them.