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!

I have never come across ringbinders with detailed instructions beyond how to work stuff, bin day , WiFi password or places to visit

As a family with ADHD I doubt any detailed instructions would be read. Large signs saying not to do certain things we can walk past and not see
We are on holiday. I don’t go on holiday to read manuals. I can spend hours of my day reading and researching for stuff in my work life. Holidays are for lying comatose in the sun, soaking up the heat. Not reading an instruction manual on how someone expects me to live my life for the next week/fortnight

They have obviously registered the property as a business rather than pay council tax on it so they don't get a domestic waste collection - but are then are too tight to pay a private firm / the council to come and take the waste away. It's a big problem in Cornwall and other holiday areas with municipal / street bins getting clogged with bags of waste from holiday homes.

You should report them to someone - not sure who, but the council may be interested in this cowboy operator - but in the short term your easiest solution is to remove waste daily, every time you go out, little and often.

No, on the Gower. Very PA notes up about it. I mean, I do get it but surely there’s a way of dealing with sand, filters over shower plug hole or something. It made it very unrelaxing post-beach!

Especially with no vacuum!

That was to@ermagerdabear, reply fail…

I know, lots of sweeping up with dust pan!

I would just very clearly state this is the case wheh you leave a review. It would put me off (esp if you have a kid still in nappies) and I expect it would others too.

Not so bad where you have countries with massive bins everywhere in the side of the street but having to go to a recycling centre....? There's long queues for those round here often!

We stayed in holiday let recently when we went to put our black sack out in the outside wheelie bin before we left, it was over flowing with rubbish that wasn’t in a black sack. I would guess they can’t deal with anymore sorting out of other peoples rubbish who can’t be arsed to deal with it properly

We stayed in a dog friendly house once, not realising that the owner actually stays in a house on the same property WITHIN the same fence and with their own dog.

There were also two other units on the property in the same fenced yard so if there were other people staying you would either have to be careful that your dog was always on lead in the yard in case they should want to use the yard or exercise their dog or hope that the other people had dogs that got along well with yours.

The owner's dog was not dog friendly so we had to be mindful of where their dog was when letting ours have a run.

There were parts of the yard that were 'off limits' despite being in the fenced in yard and..... the sticky notes plastered everywhere was ridiculous.

The owner followed us to the unit/house we were staying in and then basically lectured our kids on not leaving the doors open in case the flies went inside (the kids literally took their shoes off and went through the door in a normal way). The owner then watched us take our stuff in and I am sure counted how many seconds it took for us to do so because of the open door.

We considered leaving before we even unpacked but decided to stay and just make ourselves scarce. Made for a very unrelaxing holiday knowing we were being watched the whole time. Have never been back and never will despite the price being good and it being quite local.

As with the other posters, I would never allow our dog up on the furniture in a holiday house as I wouldn't let her up if visiting other people's houses but I'm not surprised some people disrespect the rules.

If a flat $20 fee was mentioned rather that $20pn I think it's coming reasonable to assume that $20 is the full fee.

It should be clearer, it's not as if having the dog there increases the cost per night to the owner.

Cheeky fuckers and what are people without cars meant to do?

I didn't say it was a commercial holiday home, it's used by family friends and cleaned by the people who have stayed in it. I was just offering another reason as to why the rule could be in place.

I didn't say it was a commercial holiday home, it's used by family friends and cleaned by the people who have used it. I was just offering another reason as to why the rule could be in place.