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!

Okay, that is bonkers!

Surely it's standard to empty the bins when leaving a holiday rental?

@fudfootedfannybangle the councils charge for business waste whether the owner disposes of it or the guest, it’s part of the business status.

At home we have a kitchen bin - which probably gets emptied every 48 hours, and a set of recycling bins (in the kitchen), which I empty about twice a week. There are no such facilities here so I need to take everything out each time we leave to prevent a grotty build up in the kitchen.

And take the bin bags home with you?

iv never done it.

Sorry, cross post. That is very unreasonable!

Yes, I'll bet they haven't forked out for commercial rubbish collection or something so are passing that inconvenience on to the people they are no doubt charging plenty to stay in their property.

Help me out here - doesn't it just mean empty the bins into the ones outside?

I've never been told to take the rubbish to a refuse centre before, and we have stayed it quite a lot of holiday rentals. So I definitely don't think it's standard. But perhaps it's more common that I realised.

That was what I was thinking. It's not clear.
Maybe it's somewhere with no wheelie bins?

No - off the property - ie to a refuse/recycling centre (they list local ones for you to go to).

That's ridiculous. To take your stinky bin bag back in the car for your journey home?? No way.

Leave in feedback for next person to see.

Sorry - I thought 'off the property' was clear - and now I can't seem to edit the original post. Weirdly, there is a wheelie bin in the garden, that was full and quite smelly when we arrived, though it got emptied the second or third day we were here.

Definitely mention this in your review!

That's how I read it, where else would you put it? Are there no outside wheely bins?

We're in Spain at the moment in a villa, when we empty the kitchen bin we have to schlep it 10 minutes walk away to the massive bins on the edge of the estate. Bit of a ball ache. No outside bins here.

Are you on holiday in Ireland? Has to do this on holiday there, different set up from UK

It's weird they don't let you use the outside bin. Did you also say nowhere to put tubbish inside?? Crazy if so. I dont expect to do a tip run on holiday

Oh cross post, just stick it in the wheelie bin in the garden, or just leave in the garden, what can the owner do once you've left?

Yes, there's a wheelie bin, just instructions not to use it and take rubbish to a refuse/recycling centre (which is a car journey away).

Goodness knows what they'd expect you to do if you'd gone on holiday without the car.

I'm surprised by that simply because the local refuse centres (close to two borders) require you to be a resident of the county. It's a fairly standard rule at a lot of places. Considering you have to book and confirm car registration ots not hard for them to check and issue fines if you're not!

So are there no wheelie bins?

I recently stayed in a cottage that had a front door in perfect working order, opening on to the high street. A family member was staying across the street. The back door opened on to two sets of steep stone steps and a walk up the back, round the block and back down an alley.

The Handbook demanded that we never use the front door, at all. (We did).

That is strange. I would use the wheelie bin in the garden because there is no way I would be wasting holiday time at a refuse centre. How much longer do you have left before you leave?

Oh, I see. It wasn't clear that you couldn't use the wheelie bin.
That's strange!

I think you've misunderstood. They mean removed from the property (the house). Put into the wheelie bins. I've stayed in a similar house. The rules for recycling etc were very strict so the other details of recycling centers were there so I didn't leave etc outside the bins as it wouldn't be collected.

I'd be contacting the owners for clarification.