Would you follow this rule?

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Staying at a holiday house, the rules mention 'no food or drink to be taken upstairs' - would you follow it?

YABU - I'm on holiday, I'm having a cup of tea in bed and I'm old enough not to make a mess

YANBU - rules are rules, I'll do as I'm told

I have that rule too but it's mainly because the house is in a tropical climate and any food/dirty dishes attracts ants and cockroaches. The ants appear very quickly and a cup left next to bed would be covered in ants in 20 mins. If there is nothing for them to eat they dont come in. Also a stain on the mattress means a new mattress in a holiday let. Even the best mattress protector will be hard pushed against a full cup of tea. Some people take the protectors off - mostly Germans, no idea why as they are not the sweaty rubber things.

Well, presumably you'd book somewhere without such a rule, then!

Yes because we have the same rule at home, no food or drink in the bedrooms.

I always have a glass of water by my bed in the night so would do that. I don’t eat in bed at home so no to that.

I agree they should make this rule clear when booking though (and I wouldn’t book that place). I hate airbnbs with silly rules like stripping beds, cleaning everything for an hour before check out at 9am etc etc. Not a holiday and I’d rather stay in a hotel and have a cuppa in bed. (And not spend an hour cleaning).

Haven't read all the replies, but assumed there would be a fair spread of views. Personally, I think it is on the unnecessary side so was happy to have a cuppa in bed. DP on the other hand is very much a rule follower 😊so I was interested in wheat the consensus would be

You obviously don't get out much, do you?

Yes I would follow the rule. Because I’m not a cunt.

Yeah you got me. I’ve never been out actually, contained in the same house since birth.

Now this is the kind of response I was expecting 😄

So the question is does he ever bring you breakfast in bed on your birthday/mothers day/sick with flu etc and he is going along with this rule for the sake of rules are rules or is eating, drinking upstairs a no-no in your home like many are suggesting?

If it's the first one, then I wouldn't consider that a home from home experience and that defeats the object., IMO.

Oh I get a cup of tea in bed on a regular basis at home, I wouldn't think twice about tea and toast in bed usually. It was a fairly fancy air bnb type place, I'm sure you get all sorts going on when you rent your house out, but trying to stop people doing relatively ordinary things seems unnecessary - and as many have said means they're probably not well suited to being hosts!

Yes

We never take food or drinks in our bedrooms at home, so I wouldn't do it in a holiday cottage either.

I'm gobsmacked by how many posters say they don't ever take any food or drink into their bedrooms at home - presumably none of you have teenagers 😂

First response nails it.

I'd mostly follow it but I would still take water up to bed. I would take it in a bottle so it's not easily spillable though. I need water in the middle of the night and I'm not traipsing up and down stairs for it.

I wouldn't take anything else, or food, up though.

The problem is that weird rules like this often only appear in the "welcome pack" and not in the pre-booking information so difficult to avoid.

I don’t think you have a right to sell your home for money, then dictate small details like this.

if I’m a visitor at another home, that’s different.

Can’t have it both ways

Hotel rooms have tea and coffee making facilities and a mini bar with snacks. Id take a drink up.

If the rule was clearly advertised when I booked I'd stick to it, presumably having already decided the accommodation was worth the inconvenience.

If it was sprung as a surprise on arrival I would think it was cheeky and wouldn't necessarily stick to it.

Pre-2020, yes; I was a stickler for rules then, petty or not.

In 2020, I changed my mind, when were bombarded with absurd roolz, many of which made no sense, and some of them made up on the spot (no more than an hour out per day, quoth Michael Gove, improvising it in an interview). And guess what? I have felt much freer ever since.

If rules are sensible and I can see they’re based on logic I’ll obey them. If not I happily ignore them. This one falls into the latter category.

I’m having a cup of tea in bed right now in an Airbnb so no I wouldn’t. It’s the kind of rule they don’t put on the booking page so you arrive and it’s in the sheet there. Ignore. I don’t let my kids have food upstairs anyway so they’re fine, but I’m an adult who’s going to have tea in bed on holiday when I don’t have to spring up for work.

I have 3 and they know that food is eaten downstairs not in bedrooms (I never minded them having snacks in their rooms for sleepovers but not drinks other than water which is pretty much all they’ve ever drunk, sticky spilled drinks seeping into carpet - no thanks - but as a rule no food upstairs).
Well technically 2 of them are now adults and one of them takes a cuppa up with her when getting dressed in the morning.