We have properties in the Algarve. Our cleaner will not go in before the current guests have left. FOr those of you who say you have never met a cleamner, she does not go into the house or make her presence obvious until the guests have left. It is pretty easy to see when people are still in the house.
One of our properties is 3 bedroom, two bathroom, with pool and terraces. It takes 6 hours to clean properly, strip the beds, remake them, get the pool area cleared, find everything that has been moved and put back to the correct place, check the first aid kits, check all light bulbs and replace, replace all soap and shower gels, clear out fridge, freezer, check all cupboards for random food. It is NOT a five minute job. If one item is in the wrong place, or something is dirty, our rating on the booking websites goes down. We need every second to get our property ready for the next guests.
And it is not the responsibility of the owner of the property to advise you of concerts or other potentially noisy happenings. Most of the time unless they actually live in the village as well, they have no idea of anything happening.
Owners and cleaners of properties have lives as well. For four months a year we get no weekends, people arriving at 2pm turn up at 10pm. People leaving at 10am leave at 11am. No consideration to the people who are trying to work around this. In a hotel, the cleaners can just move to a different room to clean. If I have cleaners waiting to clean three houses on the same day, they are often 5 miles apart. Most cleaners do not drive, so I have to arrange transport for them. Driving to a different house wastes another 15 minutes. The schedule has been arranged usually for MONTHS in advance (as most bookings for us are already in place by then).
And cleaning around people? Cleaning means cleaning a room and then leaving it clean. Not allowing random people to come back in to "just pick up a toothbrust" or "just use the loo". How would you like to come into your holiday accommodation knowing that the toilets had been used before you arrived, the hand towel is wet or dirty, that your bed did not look well made, or that someone had traipsed sand through the bedroom. All of these would be perfect once my cleaner had finished, but if your kid comes through the cleaned areas, then all of this is likely to happen.
This thread has made me irrationally angry perhaps as I have a manic weekend of linen and beds (I do these and the cleaner does the rest) - and I KNOW FIRST HAND how long it takes to get a property ready to the right standard. I also know my cleaner works at the speed of light, not stopping for anything until she is finished, but it still takes us up to 6 hours to do a turn round on a three bed two bath property.
And finally how DARE one of you think it is appropriate to write a snotty email about the concert to the owner, and then give them bad feedback. This could be their livelihood that you are messing around with. And funnily enough, your refusal to leave on time could leave the NEXT guests leaving valid poor feedback because the property was not ready on time or that it was not cleaned to the correct standard.
Get a grip and take responsibility for your own life. Not work out ways you can impact your "misfortune" forward to other people.