To have turned away this airbnb guest?

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I have been doing airbnb for a while and have found it a great way to meet new people, and earn a little extra. That is until last Friday night.

Despite my house rule of no children, a woman wrote to me and asked if I could make an exception, promising that her two-year old son would be very well behaved. My house is not set up for children, and I simply don’t want toddlers here so I replied and said no.

She said that was okay and booked anyway, saying she had to come to my town for a wedding, and that she’d find someone to look after him.

Then she turned up with her child at 9.30pm saying she couldn’t find a sitter, and had hysterics as she pleaded with me on the doorstep, to allow him to stay. I refused and in the end called the police because she said she wouldn’t leave until I gave her, her money back in cash because she needed it to stay elsewhere. As she was starting to cause a nuisance, they got rid of her.

She’s taken this to airbnb. My argument is that she was told she couldn’t bring her child, and did anyway, so she should lose her money. Not unreasonable?

But surely if OP let CF and her child in and let them use the toilet/have food then it would be after 10pm before they would start looking for other accommodation?

Where is the OP? Has she somehow got lost when her thread became someone else's hijack of 'mmmmmmmmeeeeeee'?

Pengggwynn - you're a teacher. Can we take it that if, for instance, your school closed for the day you wouldn't accept pay for that day?

I hope you got an incident number from the cops, OP, so the CF doesn't get a refund

Would the police issue an incident number for something like this? I could well be wrong, but thought they only gave one where an actual crime had been committed?

I hope, though, that OP had done everything through airb&b's own messaging system, because I'm reasonably confident the CF will be cooking up something ... errr ... creative in an attempt to get a refund

Maybe the OP could install a bird feeder filled with stale bread and bird bath of cold water in her front garden for the benefit of CFers with hungry offspring. The gutter and a couple of leaves would suffice for the other.

Pengg states she has experience of this type of situation

Would let aggressive female into home give food and let child use loo

For some reason I don’t buy it 😂

OK, Pengggwynn, OP should give a refund when she hasn't provided a service in her business, even though it's not her fault in any way, but you wouldn't give a refund when you haven't given a service in yours. And you can't see anything inconsistent or hypocritical in that. I'm certainly not going to argue that that is the way you feel. It speaks volumes.

'Would let aggressive female into home give food and let child use loo'

And ring round finding her lodging. And hand over 80 quid in cash whilst also knowing the person can try to claim it back from AirB&B, too.

How does anyone know the OP doesn’t go above and beyond for her guests every day? She has already said when people are late she has got up at 3am to let them in and welcomed them with hot drinks and sarnies, that sounds like overtime to me!

Yes inconsistent just a bit to much

You can be out of pocket

I can’t be out of pocket as I work hard

Here's a question for all the people saying to let CF into the home.

What if a female and toddler booked into an AirBnB and a male and toddler showed up? Would you still say they should be let into the house for a while or not?

The huge number of people saying “oooh let her in, poor mummy with baby in danger in the dark night” seem to be out of proportion to the usual MN crowd who can’t even open the door to the post man.

From a few hundred posts ago bit it made me smile

There’s always a kinder course of action. Donate more of your salary to charity. Downsize your house and live communally so you can do so. If you have a spare room, let someone stay there for free. If you don’t, share a room with someone in your house so you can let someone use the other room for free.

And we only have the OP and others word for it that they provide countless hours of unpaid overtime, work beyond the call of duty, would give their kidneys away to perfect strangers in need. As this is an anonymous forum we have to assume it is all true don’t we.

I'd be pissed off if I'd booked a child free place & a child was there

I probably wouldn't let an unknown male in, no.

So why would it be ok to not let a toddler in then? A crying/hysterical woman is much more likely to cause problems than a random man.

I probably wouldn't let an unknown male in, no.

So you'd let the toddler - A BABY - stay outside in the cold and dark, starving and at risk of being eaten by wolves, just because a man had bought him, not a woman? You monster.