To think this is not acceptable for a “breakfast bundle” at Airbnb?

[Scottsleeping]

Me and DP went away for a night away and picked to stay at an Airbnb on Saturday night. We checked in about 3 and had to leave at 9 on Sunday. It was expensive (around £150 for the night) but it was a nice place. The owner messaged me before we got there and asked if we would like to add on a breakfast box each. Sounded like a nice way to refuel for another day of walking so I said yes. A request was sent for £20, which seemed okay for a breakfast for 2.

When I got there, there was 2 buns from Aldi, a tin of beans from Aldi, 2 bacon rashers in the packet, 2 sausages and 2 hash browns, and 10 cherry tomatoes. It was in a plastic tub in the fridge.

I am not a complainer at all. I really don’t want to complain, but I really don’t think this is justified. Aibu?

It's not clear though if the 9am check-out was part of the rules from the LL or if it was OP's choice to leave at 9am as they were going out on a day walking.

I used to offer a similar thing. I charged £20 ( 5 years ago)

They got
4 bacon
4 sausages
4 eggs
Half a tin of beans
Loaf of bread
Mushrooms
Tomatoes

I stopped because I wasn't making any profit on it. It took me ages to shop and put it together in the hamper. Hardly anyone had it. Those who did left loads of mess for me to clear up. I think your hamper was a bit light on ingredients but they fo need to make a profit.

I do a pizza package now. £20 for hire of Ooni pizza oven, fuel, dough and tomato sauce. Someone complained it was expensive. It takes us half an hour to set it up for them and show them how to use it and sometimes an hour to clean it afterwards. It's just not worth us doing it for less.

They will have calculated like this. I saw a landlord once charge a tenant £10 to replace a battery in a clock, the price of the battery and her time to go to the shop and buy it.

Yanbu. We've been given a range of complementary food at most places that's more impressive than that!

I'd be giving a bad review for that.

Was the packaging opened with most of the contents removed? Bacon/ sausages/ buns etc usually come in packs of 6-8. I would be very unhappy if you received food in opened packaging, sounds like she just gave you the leftover contents of her fridge!

I stopped because I wasn't making any profit on it. It took me ages to shop and put it together in the hamper. Hardly anyone had it. Those who did left loads of mess for me to clear up. I think your hamper was a bit light on ingredients but they fo need to make a profit.

That's the thing though isn't it? You don't have to offer it, but if you do, you don't hand over an opened pack of bacon from Aldi, lol.

Yup. We're at home for this BH, but we had eight nights in Cockermouth in April. Two rooms in a hotel with unlimited breakfast for three of us for the same nightly price. I'll be sticking with that - never stayed in an Airbnb and I've no intention of either.

I would price up each item and leave a very clear review saying what people will get for the £20 bundle. They may offer you a refund after that?

That is shocking!
I have Airbnb's and do a breakfast hamper for £22 I give
6 bacon, 6 eggs, 6square Sausage, 6 potato scones, 4 black pudding, tin of beans, fresh tomatoes, 4 bread rolls, 4 scotch pancakes, mini jams and butter portions
meat from local butchers, eggs from local farm

.. and I was worried I might be slightly expensive!!
I probably would complain or definitely leave a review to warn others

It’s a bit crap & not really value for money. I have a couple of airbnbs, and while I don’t really offer any extras (unless requested), I leave fresh flowers, bottle of wine, bread, butter, selection of jams, orange juice, milk, tea, coffee & a fruit bowl. It’s always really appreciated.

You'd expect that for £10 per person when someone is trying to run a business?

Yeah that’s crap.
we stay in loads of airbnbs for both work and family - I’m in a lovely one right now. They left us bread, crumpets, jam, milk, butter, crisps, biscuits and coffee pods - all supermarket but the biscuits are fancy Borders, all free, and a welcome surprise. We stayed in one a few weeks ago that left a fresh crusty loaf, proper butter, and delicious jars of home made jam and marmalade.
Would never pay for a bundle tbh.

This was between two of you so basically it was 1 bun, 1 rasher of bacon, 1 sausage, 1 hash brown, 5 cherry tomatoes and some beans per person? That's shit and the owner is taking the piss for 20 quid.

That's absolutely not true. Air bnb is just an advertising portal. I advertise 2 one bedroom couples properties on it, both high end luxury with hot tubs. Unfortunately in the current climate its difficult to go much higher than £150 a night. Air bnb take 18% plus VAT of that as well.

Lol whoa! I was on the fence til you added this, talk about over sold! Too much of what? Plenty of what when the big bitter items were one a piece? A surplus of beans contained in one can for two people was it?
And look if your giving me sausages and rashers from Aldi, give me the all the packet, and yes eggs as a few have mentioned. An other point brought up is to have enquired from the host, but tbh I'm not fond of messaging hosts for nitty gritty details, it doesn't always feel wholly welcomed.

Oh, and some orange juice with the bits in cos im holidays thank you

What kind of animal does not include eggs in a cooked breakfast?

For this reason alone YANBU

Blimey. We used to Airbnb our spare room for about £40 a night (around ten years ago). No extra charge for breakfast and they could have cereal, pastries, eggs, toast… Once we had a Spanish couple staying and I offered cheese, cold meats, tomatoes, cornichons etc for breakfast as I thought that’s what they would be used to- they were delighted. Always plenty of proper coffee, tea and fruit juice too. No wonder we got 5 star reviews from every guest we ever had 😂

We’ve had similar and it’s touches like this which, if I’m umming and ahhing over two very similar properties this clinches it for us. And like you say it’s often included for free (although baked onto the cost but YSWIM)

You know Airbnb is just a booking platform? It's the same properties on home away or owners direct but it's generally slightly cheaper to hosts and you're more protected if you book via Airbnb than one of the other platforms. It's not as if any of these platforms vet the quality of the properties!

1)Did you read reviews beforehand?
2) Did you ask what was in the hamper?
3) Did they mention you had to actually cook it yourself?
4) Did they mentioned that you needed to get up, cook, eat and clean, all before leaving by 9am, or did you only find out about the check-out time once there?

It would be 1 thing to have the ingredients on plates with cling film over the top, but to have them left in already opened packets is just bizarre. I would be leaving an honest review/comment to warn others. The contents likely cost £3, so its a VERY good mark up!

I wish AirBNB was still like this. Proper old school hospitality.

And not buying a property solely to cash in - just making use of your spare room.

Are there still people that do it this way?

Were the 2 rashers of bacon in an opened Aldi bacon packet? If so that is grim beyond & there no way I could be arsed cooking 1 rasher each.

Was that amount for one person or was it supposed to do both of you @Scottsleeping? Did they make a mistake and only leave enough for one person?

EDITED TO ADD - I am thinking perhaps if they don't live nearby that a cleaner or someone was supposed to put the stuff in the fridge before you arrived has misunderstood or has helped themselves to some of the food. No eggs sounds very weird. I would ask them/complain and see what they say. Saying that you would have plenty of food left to take home sounds suspiciously like something has gone wrong. Rather than being a complete deliberate rip-off

Of course! But like everything else, Airbnb has evolved and changed.

No butter, brown sauce, eggs, oil?