Holiday let with inadequate curtains, AIBU?

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We’ve paid £1,000 for 7 nights in a holiday let. The master bedroom has no curtains or blinds in about 4ft of window and so I am awake early as it’s bright. diagram attached.

it’s an awkward window but I still think it’s unreasonable not to cover it if you’re letting it. This is a professional holiday let.

There are 2 other double bedrooms but dh is in one of them and they are 2 floors down, deliberately, as I snore. So I can’t use the other one as then he won’t sleep because of my snoring.

I’d rather go home than not sleep all week. It’s 2.5 hours away. AIBU?

To be fair, me neither, but she’s saying she’s got nothing and needs a screen and to get dressed in the dark. Very odd.

I can’t wear eye masks. They scratch my corneas.

I will just have to continue getting dressed and undressed in the dark! Wonder what she does on midsummer day? When we it’s dark for about 5 hours.

Some show houses don’t have bedroom curtains to make the rooms look bigger.

But to be clear, curtains are then allowed when you actually buy the house 😂. They are pretty normal!

@SayOrPay just head to Pinterest and look at all the designer rooms with curtains.

You must have blinds you must have something surely?? How weird. I cannot think of a single house I walk past that doesn't have curtains or blinds. You are living in a parallel universe (maybe because you never get any privacy or sleep 🤣🤣)

Oh I see now because it was a new build no one can be bothered to put them up!! So it's laziness. All makes sense now!!

I've just taken the dog for an impromptu walk down my road just to see if it's true that no one under the age of 76 has curtains.
Every house has curtains, apart from one which has blinds, and none of my neighbours are over 70, let alone 76.

Except @SayOrPay 🤔

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Did you not view the accommodation online? Get an eye mask!

YABU and very entitled!

People arent reading the OP's posts

She cant put something across the window as its too high up

She cant sleep with an eye mask on (and neither would I be able to)

I do find holiday lets pretty poor for net curtains, they normally have curtains with no nets or voiles which means when the curtains are open everyone can see in.

Do you think the pictures always show every nook and cranny and window covering.

Idiotic post.

It's not like you're getting no sleep as even if you go to bed at midnight, you've still got 5 solid hours before the sunlight starts to creep in. So you are being a bit dramatic, really.

Is competitive under-sleeping now a thing on MN?!

Loving the people saying that if OP can't sleep, because of the missing curtains, OP's DH can take that room and not sleep - problem sorted!

However much you're paying, curtains (or blinds) are a standard essential. It's not like the difference between having Sky vs Freesat; or luxurious sofas vs simple Ikea jobbies. I also don't think £1,000 is cheap at all, depending on the location and size, especially outside of the summer holidays - not extortionate, but not cheap.

We once stayed at a holiday cottage that didn't have any curtains at all in the bathroom - no shower curtain (shower over the bath) and nothing to cover the windows, overlooked by several neighbouring houses. We later discovered that the cottage was actually owned by a celebrity (although we hadn't heard of her at the time), and she had a cleaner/housekeeper; so maybe she thought she was too busy/important to actually bother about providing a good basic standard for guests.

The furniture was horrendously uncomfy as well and the TV/DVD player (advertised as 'satellite', but that was a lie) would only play the one DVD that was in it: 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer', freebie given away with the Daily Mail - and we stayed in July!

If you run a holiday let and you leave guests having to make do - cobbling together 'curtains' with bin bags, foil, bed sheets or whatever - then you have spectacularly failed, and you should be ashamed of yourself. People have paid good money for a holiday and should be deciding when to go to the beach or which cafe/shops/attractions to visit; not how to put up with accommodation that's unfit for purpose.

Great thread. I really enjoyed the comparison of putting up a curtain pole to the dying art of lacemaking and the idea of discovering Britain’s lost curtainless community, but first prize goes to the image of SayorPay yearning for the day she can finally cobble together a rudimentary privacy shield in the form of plant pots.

How is it unreasonable and entitled to not want to be woken up early by the sun?

I expect the owner has never actually slept there! Its very easy to put things in which look great without realising the drawbacks

I sleep in mine a couple of times a year so I can spot things like that which are not obvious.

This.

Post after post suggesting tinfoil, bin bags etc when they can't be used.

Do you think the pictures always show every nook and cranny and window covering.

Idiotic post.

Yes, I've never seen a holiday let showing pictures of every single mundane feature and angle. Too many of them have only a few photos (on a website where they could so easily put unlimited ones up), and then waste those with a blurry close-up of a vase of flowers, focusing in on a tacky seagull-shaped MDF sign saying 'Beach this way' and half a dozen photos of the town, rather than the actual property you'll be staying at.

I'd also appreciate some photos of inside the drawers or cupboards, so at least you know in advance which pots, pans, utensils, oven gloves etc. they (invariably) haven't provided, and can take them from home.

Weird post. It wouldn’t ever occur to me to check whether accommodation had adequate curtains / blinds because they are basic. It’s like checking the photos to ensure there are lightbulbs or a toilet.

How is it unreasonable and entitled to not want to be woken up early by the sun?

Some MNers are really big on self-flagellating in all areas of life. They're probably the same ones who get royally walked over by CFs and make sure they're permanently #beingkind to people who are being deliberately nasty to them.

It's a shame really, I mean if only someone would invent window coverings... they could call them curtains. Or blinds
Make a fortune

Are you mad? It is "considered the thing to have in your house". There is no more standard thing to have in your house than curtains.

The idea of curtains being horrendously out of fashion for anybody but pensioners has got to be right up there with the lockdown suggestion of using cheese instead of milk in your coffee!!

i'd probably pull a sheet over my head and go back to sleep.
mention it in your review of the property to alert others, and let the owners know (or leave the tinfoil up)

Currently miffed that a review of somewhere I've booked for next month says no teapot, but easily remedied.

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