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To not leave holiday villa at designated time tomorrow?

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Nextphonewontbesamsung · 03/08/2019 01:20

We are staying in a rural village in the south of France and are supposed to check out of our villa at 10.00 am. Howver, tonight there is a concert in the village square (our villa overlooks this square) and there is a band that have played a 7 hour set at FULL VOLUME. They have gone from Ed Sheeran and Coldplay covers to full on heavy metal and still going strong at 2.14am local time. Currently we're into about the 10th minute of their homage to Feels Like Teen Spirit. I have my alarm set for 8am so that we can be up early to finish packing and cleaning. Aibu to move my alarm back by at least an hour? We won't be ready to leave by 10 but I have a long drive tomorrow and it is not safe when so sleep deprived! Needless to say I am enormously fucked off!

OP posts:
Jaxhog · 04/08/2019 13:10

Glad to hear you left on time. But amazed that you even considered leaving later. Just because you were inconvenienced, doesn't give you any right to then inconvenience someone else. Imagine if everyone did this? Pay forward the good stuff, not the bad!

Peanutbutterforever · 04/08/2019 13:23

Agreed...

SoupDragon · 04/08/2019 13:26

I think that just proves the commonly held belief that a lot of posters go on AIBU for an argument, which generally means disagreeing with the op.

A statement commonly made by those who disagree with the result.

tobedtoMNandfart · 04/08/2019 13:34

I think you're really fucking rude OP but maybe my 'cognitive ability' is impaired....

Or maybe you are fucked off because YWBU.

Medievalist · 04/08/2019 13:40

A statement commonly made by those who disagree with the result.

So you think AIBU is balanced Soupdragon? Confused

you're really fucking rude OP

Oh the irony ...!

tobedtoMNandfart · 04/08/2019 13:46

Ha you got me there @Medievalist !

LolaSmiles · 04/08/2019 13:50

I think that just proves the commonly held belief that a lot of posters go on AIBU for an argument, which generally means disagreeing with the op. As unpleasantly as possible
I wouldn't have said so actually. Some people do, but it's fairly rare to get a strong consensus on an issue.

I'd have said it's more typical for a poster to be told they ABU to reply selectively to the minority who agree, then flounce and strop and tell everyone they're wrong because they're right and everyone who disagrees is mean and they should have known better than to ask for advice.

tobedtoMNandfart · 04/08/2019 13:58

This ^^

lalafafa · 04/08/2019 13:58

Good you’re having a snort to keep you going.

tobedtoMNandfart · 04/08/2019 13:59

Was agreeing with @LolaSmiles

@LolaSmiles the coke & coffee! Grin

tobedtoMNandfart · 04/08/2019 13:59

@lalafafa the coke & coffee!Grin

AmaryllisNightAndDay · 04/08/2019 14:05

Glad you had a safe journey. I thought you'd probably vented your feelings and then left in time Grin Feel free to leave an honest review, some potential visitors might be happy with the late loud gig, others not so much. Of course you can't say how often it happens as you don't know that, but no doubt the owners can find out and add that information when they respond to your review.

I live in a popular tourist area myself and property owners who live outside the locality and don't bother to keep themselves and their visitors informed (the Internet exists for owners too!) make for bad relationships between visitors and locals.

LagunaBubbles · 04/08/2019 14:18

I've read on this thread my favourite by far has been the idea that I should have got up (at what time? midnight? 1am? 2am? and finished everyone's packing then"

I'm just back from a week in France and a week in Italy. Both times we packed on our last day, the night before. I thought that would have been the obvious thing to do? Confused

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Nextphonewontbesamsung · 04/08/2019 14:29

Quite, Laguna. All that needed packing in the morning was our night clothes, toiletries and dirty clothes from the day before. Wouldn't have made much difference to give up on sleep at 1.30am and put them away anyway. There was always rhe chance rhat the dc were asleep so I wouldn't have gone into their rooms to fiddle about with their cases anyway (they weren't asleep of course but I didn't know that for sure at the time). Lol at coke/coca cola hilarity.

OP posts:
Cohle · 04/08/2019 14:39

If you had so little left to do in the morning then did you need to get up two hours before check out? Confused

colourlessgreenidea · 04/08/2019 14:42

All that needed packing in the morning was our night clothes, toiletries and dirty clothes from the day before

So you could have reset the alarm for 9:30 and still had around 8 hours sleep, surely?

colourlessgreenidea · 04/08/2019 14:44

Sorry, 7-ish hours, which most people can function on without issue.

LolaSmiles · 04/08/2019 14:47

All that needed packing in the morning was our night clothes, toiletries and dirty clothes from the day before.
So surely you'd have set your alarm later enough to throw the last bits in and all 4 as adults share the last minute things.

AlexaAmbidextra · 04/08/2019 17:27

We're a large family so we haven't always made it out the door before the stroke of 10.

Family size is no excuse. You’re obviously not getting up in time. Get up an hour earlier and you’ll be able to leave at the requested time.

ohcanada · 04/08/2019 17:36

Ahh all the English uptightness comes out when you stay in Europe. Chill out op, you're on holiday! Get out at 10 as agreed. Lots of people stay up til 2am on holiday.. or later!!!

PortiaCastis · 04/08/2019 17:44

Crikey who pays a cleaner to sit and chat, mine wouldn't last long if they did that !

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