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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:
Vulpine · 03/08/2019 07:14

One hour won't hurt. I let people stay later if needs be.

BarbaraofSeville · 03/08/2019 07:15

Seriously, have you ever heard of a public performance anywhere that was allowed to continue until 2.30am

Don't ever go to Spain OP. We went to a summer flamenco festival in a local mountain village. We gave up and went back to the accomodation when the headline act hadn't even appeared at 3.15 am.

I suspect you've gone to bed now, but I'd just leave on time and have a couple of hours sleep under a tree in the park.

peoplepleaser1 · 03/08/2019 07:15

I do t blame you for being annoyed and wanting to leave late.

However, by doing so you are putting your self before the cleaner, owner and next guests. Which is rather selfish.

The cleaner will have been instructed not to begin until the property is vacant. There are all sorts of reasons why they shouldn't start before you've left. Even if they were able to start it's pretty unfair to make things more tricky for them.

Shoxfordian · 03/08/2019 07:15

Yeah you should leave when you're supposed to op
Hope you had a few hours snooze

Kubo · 03/08/2019 07:17

I think this thread is an elaborate ruse to wind people up by first calling it ‘Feels like teen spirit’ and then when corrected say they know it’s ‘It smells like teen spirit’.

cushioncovers · 03/08/2019 07:21

The cleaners might not want to start cleaning when you are still there. It actually puts them in a vulnerable position if any of your stuff is missing. Pack as much stuff as you can the night before and get up at 8am. Have breakfast on the road.

DippyAvocado · 03/08/2019 07:24

Ah, the joys of a French summer concert. I remember once DH and I spent a couple of weeks touring France. Every Friday/Saturday we would pitch up at a peaceful looking-site next to a river in a sleepy looking town or village and without fail at 10pm some local concert would start up. And it seemed compulsory to have at least one rendition of Je ne regrette rien by Edith Piaf.

However, I do think you are pushing it not to be out by at least 10.30 as there will be other guests due.

mummmy2017 · 03/08/2019 07:27

Do you often go through life thinking your wants and needs are the most important?
I think your selfish and need to give your head a wobble .
If your that tired you should have packed last night while it was too loud to sleep so you could get up as late as possible and leave on time
You booked the Villa, you should have researched what was going on in the area, not expecting someone to do it for you.
Take a look in the mirror, don't become that person....

Aridane · 03/08/2019 07:33

How can 16% of people think OP isn't being unreasonable? Shock

Aridane · 03/08/2019 07:34

Just love, LOVE bignose's response - love reading those type of bonkers' reviews on trip,advisor!

Baguetteaboutit · 03/08/2019 07:37

Yabu, op. But fucking ha at... I have to travel to work on less sleep. Do you have to drive over 1000km to get to work?

MsTSwift · 03/08/2019 07:39

You have to chill. And I speak as someone whose last 4 nights of last years holiday were in the vicinity of “Europe’s largest beach party” that STARTED at 11.30 and finished around 8am We would watch the revellers heading home as we had our breakfast. We were unaware of it was a super quiet family oriented place - we weren’t even that near lots of people must have been even closer though it felt like it was happening in our bedroom Grin

HerkyBaby · 03/08/2019 07:41

Could you not have just got up and got on with the packing and tidying while listening to the music? That way you could have still had a lie in and still got out on time?

Whatisinaname1 · 03/08/2019 07:41

Most people wouldnt be happy being kept awake until 130 with a long drive and many of us will have been there at some point so can sympathise it's shit, but you can't put the owner out because of a bad night. It's not their fault.

Osirus · 03/08/2019 07:42

That email is the most entitled thing I’ve ever read on here. Shock

Please don’t send that.

ZisforZ · 03/08/2019 07:42

Wow so entitled OP.

Vivavivienne · 03/08/2019 07:45

Holy Shit. You’re nuts. As is the author of that outrageous email!

I’d have packed whilst listening, or to be honest, probably just gone to the party! A glass or two of wine and a dance for a few hours, I’d have gone straight to sleep!

Autumnbrownie · 03/08/2019 07:47

My family owns and manages several villas and apartments across the Canary Islands and it's a huge inconvenience when someone decides to overstay the check out time, there's often another set guests arriving and many other villas to clean in a short amount of time, some villas are an hour or two drive from each other so the cleaning and change over either gets done at 10, or the guests get delayed significantly.

If your agreed time is 10, you need to leave at 10 or before, if not you are potentially ruining another families holiday which could lead to a bad review and loss of business as well as disrupting the job of cleaners or any maintenance staff.

wowfudge · 03/08/2019 07:47

I really want to edit all the sleeps out of that email. FFS - the noise has nothing to do with check out time. And why the hell are you not packed if you need to be out by 10?

BillieEilish · 03/08/2019 07:48

I'll be at my villa, 10am sharp, to do the changeover with the cleaner, who has exactly 3 hours before her next job.

GET OUT, it is August and Saturday and peak season changeover day.

You are being awful. If you refused to leave my villa I would call the police. Another family have paid for their holiday and it needs to be perfect for them.

ShirleyPhallus · 03/08/2019 07:48

I can’t believe someone wrote a whole letter to the owners as a post here Shock

SummerInTheVillage · 03/08/2019 07:48

That email is a contender for most stupid post of the year, let alone the week.

TatianaLarina · 03/08/2019 07:50

You’d be in breach of contract OP. You presumably signed the terms and conditions. If it’s Airbnb you signed up to those conditions when you paid.

As others have said it takes 10am - 4pm to turn the house round. It’s really not fair on the owner or the cleaners to be in their way when they’re trying to get the house ready for the next guests. Nor is it the concert their fault.

You could always add an extra night to your drive. Find a bnb somewhere and chill.

Shazafied · 03/08/2019 07:51

The cleaner can start cleaning while we are still here
Very arrogant

Medievalist · 03/08/2019 07:53

Do you often go through life thinking your wants and needs are the most important?
I think your selfish and need to give your head a wobble .
If your that tired you should have packed last night while it was too loud to sleep so you could get up as late as possible and leave on time
You booked the Villa, you should have researched what was going on in the area, not expecting someone to do it for you.
Take a look in the mirror, don't become that person....

Jesus - how on earth do you get from the op seeking opinions (not deciding outright) about staying an extra hour to her going through life thinking her needs are more important?!!!! Helluva leap there!

How do you know she didn't do some of her packing last night? But it's impossible to do most of it when people want to use the bathroom, kitchen etc the next morning?

Don't you think the villa owner bears some responsibility for letting prospective guests know what is going on in the area at the time of their booking?

Maybe instead of squeezing as much profit as possible out of their holiday accommodation owners could employ more cleaners so that people can check out at a more reasonable time - say 11-12?