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Can people pls post about their terrible guest experiences?

104 replies

bbcessex · 21/05/2017 14:20

I'm bored and I love hearing them!! ( yes... AIBU!!)

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bbcessex · 23/05/2017 20:35

Defo not a journalist ... think I'd be more subtle if I was Grin

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bbcessex · 23/05/2017 20:36

stateless.. OMG.. did they ever explain why they robbed you? 😱

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StatelessPrincess · 23/05/2017 21:05

Not really bbcessex MIL claimed it was all BIL and she couldn't stop him. If that's true she wouldn't have tried though, she does everything he says. BIL got extremely drunk the night before, when he drinks he gets really paranoid and wierd, accuses people of mad things they haven't done etc, I reckon he did it as revenge for something that never actually happened. They are the strangest people I've ever met, I haven't seen them since and hopefully never will. DH does speak to MIL on the phone occasionally though, she actually text him the other day wanting to know why he hadnt wished BIL happy birthday!

FoofFighter · 23/05/2017 21:23

You need to find the poo crumbs threadGrin

ThouShallNotPass · 23/05/2017 21:42

We owned a Guest house for a time. A real nice, fancy one. . I could tell some howlers.

Just one for now. We once had 3 Americans drop by without a booking, wanting a family room. The chap took a look and said it was perfect but nervously said his wife had to check too first. Fine, no problem. She stomped in, pushing past me and started picking up my nicely made beds, dragging mattresses off and loudly complaining how we had horrendous, cheap nasty uncomfortable beds (they were divans but top quality fucking expensive ones and very comfortable, as well as being less than a month old!). She went on and on about how we should have better high thread-count bedsheets like anyone could tell from a glance and how we should have real coffee makers in the bedrooms instead of this disgusting stuff (we provided a bloody week's worth of coffees, teas, herbal and fruit teas as well as an array of bottled Scottish still and sparkling waters. All of which usually got nicked with every guest but we liked to spoil folk).
She then opened the massive sash window but was pissed that the 2nd, smaller window didn't open due to it being over 100 years old. Fuck me. She went nuts, berating me about how it was unacceptable and there was no air flow in the room and she wouldn't be able to breathe. She then stormed to the nearest room down the hall which happened to be my daughter's nursery in our private quarters, slammed the window open above my daughter's cot and declared that if she left her room door open then that would maybe "do".
In rural Scotland. Where the midges would eat you alive in minutes if you had so much as a crack in a window.

For twenty minutes she bitched at me for every little thing from the size of our en-suites, she didn't like the toiletries provided, the sofa in the family room (big fucking room) was an ugly colour and told me that we should be much better to attract decent customers.

I finally managed to interrupt her to tell her that for the £20 a night she could not get the Ritz and co-incidentally we were massively underpriced for the area and if we wanted "decent customers" then that would not be her!

I told her to try further on up the road as there was some self catering accommodation there.

"Well how far up the road?! How many miles exactly?! Aren't you even going to bother to tell me that! I need to know how far!"

I told her not fucking far enough and shut the door on her.

ThouShallNotPass · 23/05/2017 21:47

Then there was the guest who hadn't showered in at least a month. He refused our offer of free overnight laundry service.

Took us days to air the bedroom enough to re let it. The linen went through the wash more than twice. You don't want to know what was on it.

We asked our other guests if they would like to have their breakfast with us in the kitchen as the dining room was unusable while he was in there.

bbcessex · 23/05/2017 22:09

thoushaltnotpass ... I bet the woman's face was a picture when you shut the door.

If you wrote a book, I'd buy it (I'm still not a journalist!!!).

Stately.. I do think you might be the winner, having your entire house contents stolen 😱

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StatelessPrincess · 23/05/2017 22:18

bbc Well it wasnt all bad in the end, I am quite fond of the cats now and we did eventually get new things, but the main thing is they gave me the perfect excuse to go NC, nobody can blame me, every cloud has a silver lining Grin

bbcessex · 23/05/2017 22:23

🤣🤣🤣🤣 fair enough.. you're right, can't say anyone would disagree with you.. sounds like a close shave really!

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GuntyMcGee · 23/05/2017 22:24

Possibly massively outing but we offered a friend, who had nowhere else to stay, our spare room for a couple of weeks while she got back on her feet. Between us we agreed that she'd contribute to food shopping.

She overstayed her welcome well and truly.

We were stuck with her for 3 fucking months!!

During which time she washed her clothes only once, yet showered 3 times a day - her evening shower lasting at least 40 minutes.

She constantly had her laptop on, playing films, even overnight, to the point that I used to go in around 2am and move laptop off bed and turn it off.

She had guinea pigs in her bedroom and rarely cleaned them out, even going away for a week, leaving them for me to feed and clean.

She 'accidentally' allowed a candle to melt over off the bedside table onto the carpet and instead of confessing, tried to cut the hard wax out of the carpet - I only discovered it when my kitchen scissors went missing and went to look for them in her room. Found them on top of a silk shirt which had been strategically placed over the wax. I may have lost my shit a little and used said shirt to iron the wax out.

DH came home from work late one night to find the electrics had tripped. Flicked them back on to hear a hairdryer going... went to investigate and found her fast asleep in bed with hairdryer under the duvet. When we spoke to her about it she couldn't see the issue because she'd been cold and hadn't wanted to go get a blanket out of the airing cupboard or put a jumper on. She couldn't understand that if the electrics hadn't tripped, the house would probably have burned down! She couldn't comprehend why we were angry about it and argued that it was our fault because the heating had gone off!

She ended up not contributing a penny towards food and drink, yet happily helped herself to anything and everything in the house. Yet she'd go shopping for her own stuff and hide it in her room.

Constantly utterly skint but flush enough to get to London every weekend to see her boyfriend.

Eventually we snapped and asked her to leave afShe did so within a day. When I went to clean the (now stinking) room, found hair dye stains all over the carpet and used tampon applicators in the chest of drawers.

It cost us a fortune is utilities, food and putting the room straight after she'd gone. We ended up getting rid of the bed, drawers and wardrobe. Carpet is still there for now but the stains are a constant reminder of how little respect she had for our property and how ungrateful she was for our help.

She was an absolute princess and a self centred, filthy cow.

It was the end of our friendship. She moved away and I never heard from her from the day she moved out onwards. Part of me hopes she's reading this and recognised herself and her disgusting behaviour.

Kokusai · 23/05/2017 22:28

I told her not fucking far enough and shut the door on her.

LOL

I have a bad host story....!

My friend rents out her room on airbnb in a European city. When she has guests, they have her master bedroom and she sleeps on a mezzanine level.

Had a lovely German lady professor staying whilst she attended a conference at the uni.

My friend went out and got quite (very) drunk. Came in. Went to bed.

Woke up in the morning.... totally naked from the waist down with her pants and trousers on the floor next ot the bed, in her own bed. Like, the bed the airbnb guest should be in! Not her bed up on the mez level!

The lady had left her a note and checked out.

She refunded the lady her costs...!

RedBugMug · 23/05/2017 22:37

my parents are here atm.
they eat us out of house and home. I double what I would cook for the 4 of us and they then have a large pudding as well (we never have pudding). and they take a new cup for every drink they make, but at least they load/unload the dishwasher.

bbcessex · 24/05/2017 09:28

gunty... Shock how did you put up with that for 3 months?

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ShangriLaLaLa · 24/05/2017 09:36

Our guest drew a massive pencil question mark on the upstairs mezzanine wall. We only came across it after she'd left and it spooked us somewhat. We've actually left it there as a strange feature and refer to it as 'guestname's query'.

ThouShallNotPass · 24/05/2017 09:47

@GuntyMcGee I had a friend that sounds EXACTLY like yours. It could almost be the same person you're talking about because it's the same type of stuff she did. Hairdryers to heat the bed, candles melted on the carpet with stupid attempts to fix, dirty stuff laying around (in her case there were sanitary pads and half empty milk eventually fucking cheese bottles), showering a lot but clothes laying everywhere and not even a sniff test. Though mine had a dog that wasn't cleaned up after, not Guinea Pigs. She didn't want to walk him so would open the front door and send him off into the streets. Thankfully we were housemates and I just got my own place instead.

ThouShallNotPass · 24/05/2017 09:48

@ShangriLaLaLa didn't you ask why they had drawn it?

sashh · 24/05/2017 09:56

We will go through a 9-pack over a 2 night stay (would normally last us 2 weeks). I don't give a shit, I make sure we have plenty, it's gone on too long to ask, but I'm baffled!

My mother once claimed my brother must 'pull it through his legs until it comes out clean' - maybe your guests do the same?

ShangriLaLaLa · 24/05/2017 09:59

@ThouShallNotPass No. We found it after she'd gone. We didn't know her terribly well (friend of a friend on a stopover on the way to an airport). However, we were weirded out by it and thought best to let it go and put it down to some folk just being stranger than strange. Never heard from her again, not even a thank you for the night. Turns out our mutual friend didn't know her quite as well as I'd thought either: could be construed as good news or downright scary!

GuntyMcGee · 24/05/2017 10:05

@bbcessex At first we just felt bad because she had nowhere else to go, then we started dropping hints - leaving the for rent section of the local paper in her room, then finally I started saying 'look, you've really got to look for a place of your own now' and she still didn't bother.

When she came home from yet another London trip, - having left guinea pigs in a cage that stank to high heaven before she'd gone - we met her at the front door and politely asked her to find alternative accommodation. We offered her until the end of the week, but she packed up there and then and drove straight back to London (over 200 miles) and I didn't hear a peep from her after that.

GuntyMcGee · 24/05/2017 10:07

@ThouShallNotPass

Did your 'guest' also take dry cereal in a bowl to work and leave said bowls collecting in her car until you asked where the fuck the cereal bowls had gone? That was another of her weird and regular tricks. She said she liked to eat dry cereal in the car on the way to work. Couldn't fathom why I'd prefer that she took Tupperware and not my crockery. Utter screw loose, that one.

ThouShallNotPass · 24/05/2017 10:13

Ha ha ha! Sounds very much like the type of thing my friend would do except it would probably be mugs. Oh and forks! All my forks disappeared. She would make a pot Noodle (leaving the powder spilled on the countertop and the sauce packet stuck to it) and leave with the fork. Why they never came back I don't know. And she couldn't make a coffee without ensuring she stuck a wet spoon in the coffee and THEN did the sugar, leaving the sugar canister 50% wet coffee granules to sugar by the end of the day. I ended up only filling the canister with enough sugar for one day then binning the lot and starting again the next day.

silkpyjamasallday · 24/05/2017 10:29

I hadn't seen an old school friend for over a year, she was visiting her sister in London and asked if she and her partner could stay with us overnight as he sister is in student accommodation with no spare bed. I worked in a nightclub at the time and got the Saturday night off so we could spend time together, I had worked the Friday night shift and got home at 6am Saturday morning. I went to the shops and got some nice food and drinks in and spent the day getting the house in order, spare bed linen washed etc. on no sleep.

She messaged about an hour after I had been expecting her to tell me she was eating at her sisters, this was at about 7pm. I was annoyed as money was tight and I had bought all this food but decided to let it slide and not make a fuss, DP and I would just eat it another night. She then texted to say she was feeling sleepy after her meal so was going to have a nap. It got to 10pm and I messaged her to tell her to stay at her sisters as I needed to sleep and if she could nap there she could also sleep there. Half an hour later I get a reply saying oops she is already on the tube on the way to us. Again I decide to let it go and just stay up a bit longer. 11pm she texts to say they are at Brixton tube station and could I come and collect her and her partner and walk them back to my house. I ended up bloody doing it because she claimed she was too scared to walk past the big estate on the way to ours, even with her boyfriend with her.

When she got to ours she announced she was exhausted and wanted to go to bed, so we all had to go to bed as they were sleeping in our living room on a sofa bed. I was fuming at this point because I was so tired and had made so much effort just for her to take the piss and ruin my day. I calmed down and thought we would maybe go out for breakfast or something the next day, but when I got up at about 7.30am she had left without saying a word! Helped themselves to breakfast and left the living room and kitchen in a state. I didn't speak to her for another year, we have only just got back in contact and she didn't even bother to come to see DD after she was born. We have been friends over a decade and she was always a bit of a pisstaker but I always let it go, now I don't bother making an effort to see her or talk to her.

paddypants13 · 24/05/2017 12:59

I have one at the moment.

Called my four year old dd a bully.
Never says a word of thanks for anything.
Leaves her mess for everyone else to clear up.
Sits in my favourite spot on the sofa! ( Lighthearted obvs.)
Moans about the noise my kids makes.
Is generally an arrogant, rude arsehole.

Only another 4 weeks to go! Grin

KroplaBeskidu · 24/05/2017 13:05

DH's friend was wearing very short shorts watching TV when he was staying with us.

His right bollock fell out and just hung there all night.

I've never seen such dangly bollocks in my whole life.

I pretended not to notice, I don't know if anyone else noticed.

IrrationalRage · 24/05/2017 13:17

@paddypants13 oh I remember your thread from earlier in the month, if it's the same poster? Sounded awful, I can't believe you still have so long to go Angry did the boyfriend arrive too?