To ask how b&bs work?

[Bellavida99]

Ok - overactive brain in the night started thinking about bed and breakfasts. I don’t think I’ve ever stayed in one as normally stay in hotels or rent cottages. So do owners literally rent out a bedroom and trust strangers in the house? Do they lock their bedroom door? How do they trust them to lock the front door properly and not to steal anything? How do they feel safe in their own house? I don’t think I’d be able to sleep!

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Everyone I've ever stayed in the owners would have a self contained living area for starters. They aren't just letting out their spare room

They’re run as a business so usually the owners have a separate part of the house, that they live in.
the guests have bedrooms in the rest of the house, and there’s a breakfast room where the guests eat in the morning and sometimes, but often not, a separate lounge area for guests.
B&B’s don’t usually have facilities or room service etc. you sleep, you have breakfast, you leave or spend the day out. You dont around as much as hotels because there’s no bar, restaurant - other than for brekkie - no staff as such. Just owners.
that’s why they’re often cheaper. Does that help??

Seriously that makes perfect sense they have a separate part of the house. Thank you doh 🙄

I see them as mini hotels which supply a bed and breakfast.

The owners usually have their own bit of the house. The rest is the business and it looks bloody hard work.

When I was a child my parents and I would sometimes go on holiday and stay b and be with people who were just literally letting out a spare room or two. Making the most of the fact they lived somewhere nice like the Lakes or Yorkshire Dale's.
Occasionally we sat with the hosts in the evening in their lounge.
I have never stayed anywhere like that as an adult so maybe they are a thing of the past.

Not a thing of the past at all!

I see them as mini hotels which supply a bed and breakfast.

I have stayed in loads of B and Bs, and this ^^ is exactly what they are like.

I find that the breakfasts are usually better as they are freshly cooked rather than a lukewarm buffet.

Just watch 4 in a Bed on C4 👍

But actually I remember when I started work in the 1980s,the company I worked for had this network of landladies who would put up new starters until they found somewhere to live.
The first one I stayed they did bed, breakfast and evening meal and it was in their spare room and no separate lounge, I sat with them in the evening.
Then after 2 weeks I was moved north and their was a similar arrangement. However the new landlady did have a separate small house where most people stayed and then went in to her house for meals. If she had a lot of bookings she would sometimes put people in her attic room. I was once even sent to sleep at her neighbours for a couple of nights!
I ended up staying there a year because she had one room in the separate house that had its own kitchen which she was prepared to let out as a bedsit.

Yes, the best breakfasts I've ever had were always in b and bs. Much better than a big hotel breakfast and very reasonably priced.

We tend to rent self contained properties now, but I have a soft spot for an old style b and b.

Probably even more common now with the rise of air b&b but a different thing to a full time b&b business imo

Most are basically small hotels, some are pubs with rooms. The ones that are pretty much in someone's house still exist but are less common and they still generally have separate areas for the guests and the owners.

As for locking up, generally they have the type of lock that locks automatically and needs a key to unlock from the outside and guests have a key.

Old fashioned ones used to have a time you had to be back and you were locked out if not back in time but that wouldn't work these days!

Sounds more like boarding houses than B&Bs

Only one I ever stayed in was just a room in a house. I even accidentally went into her child's room by accident after going to the toilet in the night! She was a lovely woman and made a fab breakfast but I found it a bit awkward.

Wow that’s shocking you could just walk into a child’s bedroom. Sounds like a normal house set up is a bit of a dying breed now fortunately

Wel no, because most of those are hotels.

Some good answers after the initial stupid face posts by the less intelligent.

Scroll past if you have nothing to say.

Well stop being so ridiculous...no one can be that thick surely 🙄