AIBU to expect holiday cottage to be clean?

[Corporatepreggolady]

Hi all,

Me, DH, my baby and parents have come away to an Airbnb and paid £600. I felt we were getting a good deal because it's the bank holiday and a lot of places were booked.

But although the house itself is nice, the cleaning seems half-hearted. Eg, glasses have dust around them in the cupboard. Headboard of bed has a fine layer of dust on.

Do you think I'd be reasonable to complain or even ask the owners (holiday lettings agency) to come back and clean for our next 2 nights? The dust is really triggering my allergies and I don't like the thought of DD breathing in dusty air.

Yabu - yes, that's a cheap let and get over it
Yanbu - no, it should be clean. Make a point to them.

This.

I'd take pictures and complain. Give them a chance to rectify it. If I was paying £200 a night which isn't cheap in my opinion then I want better standards of cleanliness than that and a dusty headboard doesn't cut it.

It's never dirty enough someone complains

It's just not £150 clean! I'd genuinely expect about 6 solid hours of cleaning for that - no garden, completely modern and brand new house!

I went last year and spent the ENTIRE weekend cleaning - I ran the dishwasher 12 times, had to wash everything in the house - it was just filthy

You know those huge buttoned footstools - we have one - some kid had mashed up a packet of biscuits into the buttons, the buttons needed hoovered (not a big deal, took 5 minutes) but they hadn't noticed - FIRST thing I noticed when I walked in

Stayed in pewsey cottage wiltshire few years ago,it was the foggiest novel ever and photos to prove.holiday agency and landlady threatened us if we published photos.offered £25 refund.imagine dirt in cutlery infested with insects hairs in fridge shower ..oven and grill caked in food thick dust drawers full of dead things and hairs among plates.

Filthiest hovel!

Why are you putting up with this? I know good cleaners are hard to get but you are being taken advantage of here and it’s only a matter of time before you get a guest like the OP

I changed cleaners after a spot check. They knew I was coming but there were still so many cleaning defects that I wasn’t prepared to let it go.

Nope 🙈