GUEST WANTS SHOWER CURTAIN INSTALLED.

[Tartantotty]

I have a friend coming to stay with me for over a week in the Summer. She has sent a message asking that a shower curtain be installed in the en-suite bathroom she will use for the duration of her stay. She will pay.

Due to the shape of the bath etc it would be tricky to install a curtain and spoil the look of the place, I'm reluctant to do this, especially as she's getting free board and lodging in Edinburgh during festival time. AIBU reasonable in refusing? PS: She is a very large lady - no one else has complained about this, so guess it's due to her size.

🤣🤣🤣 would be my reply. I'm also laughing at some of the suggestions made by pp at how best to install said curtain. Just send her a list of local hotels. Cheeky bugger.

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If she is willing to pay and adding a temporary pole (telescopic) won't do any damage to the room other than aesthetically, I'd do it for a good friend.
Otherwise, I'd explain why you can't and leave it there. She can choose if she'd rather go to a hotel.

Thanks all. I will write her and tell her that this is not possible. She is lucky to get free accommodation at I time when I usually earn a bit of extra money on Air bnb. I guess she wants the curtain because the bath is small and guess she doesn't want to splash water all over the place.

I assume there's a screen and she's worried she won't be able to fit in the shower as it's currently set up.

@Tartantotty Has she stayed with you before? Just wondering if there was some kind of Shower catastrophe previously!

Do you have a screen? Something to contain the water when someone showers? It's a proper shower? Not one of those on a hose from the tap fitting?

Like the UK you mean? Or pretty much all other countries where people have showers and don't want to flood their bathrooms?

If the bath is small, and she is ... large... then I can't imagine a shower curtain would be much help either.

She'd have to tuck the curtain into the bath - and the curtain would just stick to her as soon as it got wet.

Nah, it's your home. We move beds about if needed, and provide linen and towels etc, but nothing else gets changed furnishings wise for guests.
If your home doesnt suit a guest, they're welcome to move to a hotel.

Have you got a glass screen op or just nothing? In which case surely the way showers spray etc she's likely to get the floor wet even if she had the decency to be slim 🙄

A telescopic pole wouldn't really "spoil the look" for a week though. And shower curtains are usually weighted now so don't stick.

Gosh you’re hilarious! Ever considered a career in standup?
Those fat lumps that can’t fit in the shower haha.
my sides doth split.

🙄

So entitled of her! How can you be friends with someone so entitled?! I’d be telling her not to bother coming.

Rude. If you go to stay with someone as a guest, for free, for a week, you stay with them in the knowledge that that is their home and that's how it is.

You don't ask them to make changes to their home, to accommodate your wishes for your free weeks stay. If it's significant enough to make you not want to stay, you stay elsewhere.

Is there a shower fitted already/screen fitted.

You’ve mentioned a bath?

Either way it doesn’t matter, it’s not a reasonable request, to start drilling fixtures and fittings at a guests request.

What do you currently have? Just a bath with shower attachment? No screen? How do you stop flooding the bathroom?

Do you not have any screen or curtain at the minute then?
I'm starting to think you've got nothing from the OP and your reply.
That still doesn't give her the right to request this. But it would be very odd to have nothing

So there's a bath with a shower, but no screen or curtain.

Your friend is worried that she will drench your bathroom (as anyone would be worried, even if they didn't have the audacity to be large).

You could solve the problem with a telescopic rail and curtain that she has said she will pay for.

Instead, you start a thread online about how awful she is.

She needs better friends.

@Ringpeace Your weight shaming has been reported. How dare you speak about another woman's size as 'bulk' like that? How dare you?

Do you ever use that bathroom yourself? If not I suggest you try it out. There may be a very good reason she's asking. Maybe less direct people have been talking about your annoying bathroom for years. Even the thin ones.

Just tell her 'No, what we have already works fine and it suits us'.
She's not looking for an excuse not to stay with you, is she? Otherwise she's incredibly entitled and demanding.

“Thank you for the kind offer” ?! It wasn’t an “offer” , it was a request.

why are British people sooooo weird 😂😂😂😂

If the poor little princess can’t ‘rough’ it without a shower curtain, then she’s probably best staying at home.

We don't have a curtain, we have a an openable glass screen (maybe they're actually called doors?).