To think that holiday let owners with 'unusual' house rules should have to make them clear on the advert?

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We're regular holiday let-stayers as a we have loads of kids (5), and so have seen a variety of 'house rules' over the years. We're currently staying in an otherwise lovely holiday let that has a house rule that 'all refuse and recycling must be removed from the property'. We're not staying very remotely (small town on the coast close to other small towns) so I can't see any 'need' for this rule other than to cut down the cleaning at the end. Having to remove all our litter (which I'm trying to keep on top of as we go) is making me increasingly cross. I'm not saying I definitely wouldn't have booked if we'd seen this rule, but I certainly would have considered other options more carefully first!

Cheer me up with your tales of the weirdest - unexpected - house rules you've come across in a holiday let!

Other non dog owning people will be staying there are not wanting to get dog hair all over their clothes from the sofa. I can't imagine why you would think it's ok to put your dog on the sofa having been asked not to! Disgusting.

Business rates don’t include refuse collection, you still have to pay for removal.

They should be paying business rates for collection. Shop them to the local council. I'm tired of people like this getting the whole AirBnB thing bad press.

@SnackSizeRaisin what are you on about?

I was saying that I was surprised at the PP who assumed that "dog friendly" would mean" dogs can climb in the furniture.

Business rates don’t include refuse collection, you still have to pay separately for waste removal.

Do the majority of dog owners really allow their dogs on the sofa at home? That's not my experience with any friend/ family member who has a dog.
Seems pretty reasonable to assume that digs would not be on furniture.

@HaveringWavering everybody I know with pets does indeed allow them on sofas etc and most also allow them on beds.

I grew up with dogs and they were basically family members although they were told to give up their space on the sofa is there was a human wanting to sit there.

I suspect that people gravitate towards other with similar attitudes to that sort of thing, which is why you don't know anyone who doesn't, and I don't know anyone who does.

The thought of an animal in my bed (apart from DH, ha ha!) turns my stomach.

Actually, although I grew up with dogs, I’ve never had a dog of my own. One reason being that I don’t want them on my furniture….

I accept it at my friends’/family’s houses because their house their rules.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel - I see your point - they don't want to wash up by hand at home but quite happy for people they are charging good money for to wash up by hand. That's a bit shoddy I think . In my defence when I gave DS the big plates they did not have a dishwasher in the shared student house so anything would have had to be washed by hand. How much does a basic range of plates cost - pretty much nothing compared to the rental coming in.

Did the instructions explicitly say that you couldn't use the outside wheelie bin, or is that just your interpretation of what "remove rubbish from the property" means? I would interpret that to mean remove rubbish from the building itself, but not from the grounds.

I would use the wheelie bin anyway. You definitely should be taking rubbish out from the house, that's standard, but I wouldn't be carting it around in my car when there's a perfectly good outside bin. What's the worst that could happen? They leave you a bad review?

After lockdown they cancelled the our week trip with two weeks notice and put it back on (and got it filled) for three times the price …

Unfortunately rather a lot tried that stunt - by no means all of course, but certainly too many

And that's the trouble with greed: it can come back to bite you on the backside, and it also spoils things for decent hosts

It’s certainly bitten those ones on the arse as they’ve lost large annual bookings. Which is spectacularly silly given our big annual booking is at their quietest period.

Ain't that the truth lyra ...

My dog definitely comes on the sofa, she sits between me and my husband. We do put a throw over it. She's not allowed in the bedroom though. She's a bit cheeky though and tries to get on the seat in the pub or on the bus. She's not allowed that though!

We take her on holiday to self catering that allows dogs. Unless we're told otherwise, we assume if the property is dog friendly they're allowed on the sofa, though not the bed. The las place had imitation leather for sofas and the owner said it was for that reason ie easily cleaned.

The thing is, I don’t want to sit in a sofa recently vacated by a dog.

The dirt (licking yourself all over is not ‘clean’ ), the dirty paws, the hair, the smell, their actual arse had been on it….

Everyone I know with a dog lets it on the sofa.

My parents dog even has her own sofa.

I would always assume holiday let’s that allow dogs = pets have been on the sofa and even the beds.

Yes, innocently do this.

Same. Pretty much everyone I know has a dog. All allowed on the sofa, many allowed on the bed. They are treated as part of the family, not second class citizens.

We booked a dog friendly cottage last year and it said that it would be £20 to bring the dog. Only when it was too late to find anywhere else did the owner say that she wanted £20 a night for the dog to come - so £140. When we got to the house the house notes said that the dog wasn’t allowed on the sofa or upstairs. With the amount we paid for him to come, we let him sit where the fuck he wanted!
A lot of landlords took the piss last year, I hope they get their arses handed to them this year.

Being asked to put rubbish out into the main bin is fine. Being asked to take it all with you in unreasonable.

When l go away, depending on location, l don’t always take the car. What are you supposed to do then? In the UK it is an offence to put domestic rubbish in litter bins for public street-side use.

"I would always assume holiday let’s that allow dogs = pets have been on the sofa and even the beds"
.... and this is why I always filter by pet-free accommodation!

I'm shocked at dog owners allowing dogs on sofas and beds in holiday lets. We have a dog and usually take him on holiday with us, and over the years our previous dog.
We don't allow our dogs upstairs or in the sofa at home and I wouldn't dream of allowing it in a holiday let. We take his crate for him to sleep in.

When we leave, as well as putting out the rubbish and stripping beds I always make sure to clean any obvious signs of dog occupancy - a quick sweep or hoover of the carpet with dog hair and mop of any muddy paw marks. All dog poo cleared from lawn etc, bagged and binned.

I was recently on hol with friends, they had a ‘dogs allowed’ cottage, we had a ‘no dogs’ one. Theirs was explicit about not allowing the dogs upstairs. Yet they allowed both dogs on the bed.

I always book ‘no pets allowed’ accommodation. I know people still flaunt it but it reduces the chances, I suppose.

A family member has a holiday home. They ask everyone to remove the rubbish from the property as there's not always someone in the house on the days when the bins are emptied by the council, which means they don't get put out. The rubbish can stay in there for weeks and it starts to smell terrible.

They presumably have a cleaner
Why can't the cleaner be paid to sort out the rubbish on bin day? Rather than their customers having to carry it home.