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?

I was hoping to find a classic Mumsnet “I’d have been stuffed from all that food, YABU,” posts, but I can’t be arsed to trawl through them.

I'd see that as good value for money, the kind of contents I would expect in a hamper. I would pay up to £30 I reckon.

I wouldn't even want the scrag ends of someone else's bacon packet for free tbh. It honestly sounds like they charged £20 for stuff the previous guests left behind

The fact that the food was to cook isn’t the biggest issue, it’s the mean portions. For me for £20 I’d expect

4 rashers thick cut bacon, 4 thick sausages or 6 chipolatas, 4 eggs, can beans, 150g small mushrooms or 2 large ones, a small (400g) fresh loaf from bakery and some butter. Then milk, 2 individual packets muesli or corn flakes and 2 apples perhaps. This costs about £9-10 from a supermarket (I shop in Lidl do a bit less) so 100% mark up.

I'd send them exactly that message and ask for half the money back or it will be going in your review.

What pray be a square sausage @Bex271 ?

id leave how bad the breakfast was in my review

Heres a little breakdown of how much what you 'expect' would actually cost from our farm shop

I expect a breakfast box to be some combination of:

• lovely fresh bread - not supermarket stuff, a nice sourdough £3
• local butter £3.65/jams £3/honey £4.50
• local farm eggs £2.99
• butcher bacon or sausages £4.99
• fresh fruit at least £1
• posh muesli type cereal £4.65

So you expect them to spend over £25 and charge you £20?!

Which is blackmail and the review wouldn't be published.

It always annoys me as well that you're paying for a room advertised on a platform called Airbnb.....BnB.....bed and breakfast. So really, now you've paid for bnbnb.

The whole thing is ridiculous.

If you are going to advertise on a platform with bed and breakfast in the name, breakfast should really be included imo.

It's a flat beef 'square' sausage and it's proper name is Lorne Sausage. It was originally from Glasgow, and is often sold up here ( Scotland)

From Google ''The Lorne sausage, also known as square sausage, flat sausage or slice, is a traditional Scottish food item made from minced meat, rusk and spices. Although termed a sausage, no casing is used to hold the meat in shape, hence it is usually served as square slices from a formed block. It is a common component of the traditional Scottish breakfast.''

I’d message and ask them about it. Say you could’ve nipped round to aldis and got that for a fraction of the price and while you understand they may want to make a profit on it this is a bit much. And is certainly not what they described as an “amazing deal”

That is hilariously bad.
I'd ask to negotiate it down to £5/head.

So is it more of a square burger, than a trad pork sausage?

I manage an Airbnb in Europe. These hosts are taking the piss. We are often asked if we can provide breakfast, but I point out the amazing bakery and deli just opposite. No way would I try to profit in such a petty and penny pinching way. The 9am check-out is also off. We are in a very busy southern european capital. 11am is our check-out - with a FREE option to leave luggage.

The review is your friend here.

For £20 that is properly shit, especially if it's bacon from a packet that has already been opened. It's cost the host what, maybe £2 in total?

Yes, they need to make a profilt and yes, the OP should have asked what was in it, but if the host can't provide a decent breakfast box at a price people are going to pay, they're better off not bothering.

Looks as if they charged you for their time to get the ingredients and for them to separate it all. I’ve seen content showing terrible breakfast boxes so I’d never opt for them.

I hope it still exists! We only stopped because our children became teenagers and it was more difficult to share our space with strangers, but I would love to do it again and hopefully will once the kids have moved out! We met so many wonderful people from all over the world and are still friends with some guests we had from the Netherlands and Norway.

They have left you feeling ripped off, you should be feeing relaxed and happy with the deal.
I don’t understand why a business owner would do this. Whenever we stay somewhere and get a nice breakfast or welcome hamper we are far more likely to leave a good review. It’s a small proportion of the accommodation cost to them but a big deal to the holiday maker.

It seems from these booking platforms that you might get lucky and get a good host who wants to provide a good service, or you might get someone who’s out for all they can get and kicks you out at 9am and rips you off with half empty packets of Aldi sausages. I wouldn’t take the risk, at least with a Premier Inn you know what you’re going to get (and last time I went to a Premier Inn their card machine was playing up so I got my breakfast for free!)

Exactly, sure they’ve got themselves a profit of £15 or whatever but they’ve likely ensured this customer won’t come back and may not leave such a glowing review. Not a smart move.

When you consider you can have an all you can eat breakfast in Premier Inn for £10.99 each, then that is absolutely crap what you were given.

@ticktickticktickBOOM The texture is different from either a pork sausage or a burger. Google 'Lorne Sausage' and you will see pictures of what it looks like. But yes - it is square and has no 'casing' on it. It's available in all our supermarkets here.

You're really going to buy them a pound each of butter, jam and honey you mad thing? And at £4.65, there's no definitely no posh muesli going in the breakfast box.

@Margo34 If you are going to advertise on a platform with bed and breakfast in the name, breakfast should really be included imo.

You clearly don't realise that the AIR in AIRBnB originally stood for Air bed??? Things have moved on and I very much doubt the OP was sleeping on an air bed!. Given your post, should she complain that she was given a proper bed???

Given you didn’t ask what was included, you really walked into this situation yourself. What one person would describe as sufficient, another would say is too much or too little.
The £20 charge included the effort of the owner of going to the shop & collecting it for you.