AIBU to ask you to read a host’s description before you book on Airbnb?

[Frannyhy]

We’re not hoteliers. If we say check in is until 9pm, it’s because we work outside the home in the day. Planning to arrive after midnight is not acceptable. I won’t get up and come to the door. If you know you have a late flight arrival get a hotel for the night. (Transport does get delayed, I know that and will suck it up. But if possible let me know.)

If you book a room in someone’s house, kitchen use is a concession not a right. Despite me saying my kitchen is to be used to make a hot drink only in my house rules, every other person wants to cook.

I have cats. I have pictures of them on my description with photos. I still get people coming here and whining that they are allergic to them.

Don’t bring extra people or children if the accommodation is for a single person. Hosts will turn you away.

Yet again a guest has asked to move because of my cats. Yet again she has lost her money (over a hundred quid) because I clearly say I have them. Airbnb sided with me and wouldn’t allow them their money back.

Read the whole listing and house rules please. I say won’t tolerate smoking or a stranger in my house and I mean it. If you pick up a fucking partner and bring him or her back here and I wake up, I will kick you out no matter what time it is.

On the whole airbnb has been a positive experience. Thanks to the lovely people who do read the details before booking, you’d be welcome back anytime.

Wow.... I’m glad some of you have never booked my Airbnb! I’m with you OP. I have never booked a hotel or B&B where I could use kitchen facilities. If you are staying away from home surely you make an arrangement for food! You make this arrangement accordingly as to where you have booked ie hotel - restaurant, room service or wherever you like, B&B - just a room so you research local eateries, Airbnb - check facilities and do same as B&B. If you want an Airbnb where you can cook then book one!
It’s nothing to do with hospitality, it’s reading in advance what’s on offer and planning accordingly.

I meant the op's. And it was a crap joke suggesting I am not reading what she's writing, like so many on here.
Op, I can't believe you expect them to sleep standing up in a cupboard and allow sitting down, for ten minutes only, on a chair of nails.

The sort of people who pay £25 a night are mostly good

Yet you come across in your opening post as if they’re barely house trained.

But if guests have read and agreed to the rules of the house there would be no need for a ‘surly cat lady’ to be muttering under her breath.

No doubt urbanlife would like a Cheshire Cat grinning inanely and prostrating herself to be walked over and a hog roasting for her arrival in the garden.

StealthPolarBear they have a large room with a king size bed. There is a chest of drawers and a double wardrobe. The bathroom is not en-suite but is on the same floor and is for their use only.

They are getting a bargain.

To be fair, those who are saying they wouldn’t stay because of the rules, that’s okay. But if you read the rules and decide to stay anyway, why complain once there? I’d always read about somewhere if I was to stay there. I’ve not experienced this though so I don’t know how things generally are.

And you play guns n Roses loudly while they're trying to sleep. You really are cruel.

@ YoThePussy nah if guests bring babies or children they will be roasting in the garden.

I'm impressed, OP, I paid more than that for the AirBnB I stayed in last year, I had no fridge in the room and I had a single bed. And no cats to keep me company

Not sure how the rules here are inhospitable.
Check in before 9pm
Kitchen only available for making drinks
No extra/unexpected guests
Don't book if you can't cope with cats

Not exactly harsh terms are they?!

Frannyhy

No one under six feet tall
Must have all own teeth and be named Frank.
Op is bvu

Thank you BQFM.

Oops, missed no smoking, but most places have that rule anyway.

I don’t allow smoking in the house, but do outside if they step away from the kitchen door.

What a bargain!! A free cat or two included, plus cat hairs.

May I just say op, that going forward if you have a minger of a guest, perhaps just tell someone in RL about it, don't come on here and expect masses of sympathy.

Some of us have real problems. The pressing need to relieve yourself has caused discomfort especially as all of MN would not dream of:

Smoking
Eating
Hating cats
Farting
Touching any kitchen ever
Drinking
Arriving later than 9pm even if there is a meltdown on the M25 for several hours
No kids
No babies
Especially no dogs
No sex
No friends
No partners
No loud noises

Have I missed anything folks?

Urbanlife sounds disturbed. Definitely not welcome at my airbnb.

OP is being perfectly reasonable and her rules are standard.

If she's a super host then she's doing it right and getting great reviews.

I think considering this is a house share then YANBU.

I would rewrite your description though and make it a) really clear and b) very politely worded!

Also, the last two Airbnbs we booked (whole apartments abroad) the host messaged us soon after to reiterate the description. That way there were no surprises and it made it seem friendly rather than didactic.

Why do it if they’re all so awful?

@yayayayaya because the majority of people are normal, literate human beings!*

• I don't do Air B'n'B but occasionally stay there and ALWAYS read the house rules.

It’s also quite common for female hosts to only allow single females to book. I know of around six other hosts in my area that do this. It’s not against Airbnb rules.

Frankly I don’t want rutting in my house!

Frankly I don’t want rutting in my house!

I absolutely stick by my 'sounds like a 1950s boarding house' comment! OP - do you also have a line painted in the bath tub that the water can't go above?

I stay in hotels as hate air B and B
Hotel prices but pissy hosts , as evidenced here !!!! Ugh

OP I would close this thread, it doesn't seem like many people on this thread have ever used airbnb.
If someone is allergic to cats and hasn't bothered to check(it's clear on airbnb listings) they are an idiot.
You're a super host so you're obviously a good host. Sadly there will always be twats trying something. I don't have any advice/wisdom, but you are NBU at all