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What’s the first thing you do when you get into a holiday property?

182 replies

ForQuaintMintCat · 21/04/2024 23:24

try to get to my room

OP posts:
sandieollsen · 22/04/2024 19:47

Thatsthewayitisnt · 22/04/2024 19:26

Have you actually observed this?

See my earlier post, yes!!

kirsti1980 · 22/04/2024 20:01

Check the fire exits and route - if staying above first floor level. Also unpack and check out the balcony/view. I do rinse any cups and glasses, but that's about it. Smile

NeedthatFridayfeeling · 22/04/2024 20:11

Ditch the bags and head to the bar (we stay in hotels)

NeedthatFridayfeeling · 22/04/2024 20:12

Where do i get NHS grade wipes??

Thatsthewayitisnt · 22/04/2024 20:14

PuppetQueen · 22/04/2024 19:29

I put all the air fresheners in a cupboard/ little-used room/outside. I hate air freshers.

Then I have to remember to put them all back on departure day!

I do this too. They are actually incredibly toxic and disrupt the nervous system.

Justwingingit2005 · 22/04/2024 20:14

Check for bed bugs!

mathanxiety · 22/04/2024 20:30

tellmewhenthespaceshiplandscoz · 22/04/2024 13:54

I am horribly compelled to hear this Confused

Very well then.

Once upon a time when I was a teen, my mum and I carried a table up to my room from the garden one September, intending it as my homework table. Next morning I woke feeling a little itchy here and there, scratched lazily, turned over, felt itchy again in random places, scratched with a little more determination, turned over again, but with eyes open, and saw that me bedroom - and more to the point, my bed - was crawling with earwigs.

Fast forward fifteen years, and exH and I and the DCs rented a little holiday cabin for a week. On the way there one of the DCs said she hoped there wouldn't be earwigs because they gave mommy the heebiejeebjes, and she didn't like them either, and we said we were sure the cabin was clean and bug free and it was the wrong season for earwigs anyway.

Arrived, admired the surroundings and the view, got the keys to work, put some food in the fridge, chose beds, ran water from the taps and shower and flushed the loo, put the kettle on, and looked in the cupboard under the sink for dish detergent to wash the cabin mugs with, only to find legions of squirming earwigs running in every direction. Screamed the kind of scream you hear in movies accompanied by a scene of birds flapping off a lake, and then the camera pans out to a shot of the earth in space.

Jumped into the car and wouldn't come out again until there was proof the cabin had been sprayed within an inch of its life with Raid. I didn't let anyone unpack clothes all the same, and I didn't really relax until we got home and I had put everything we had brought with us into the washing machine.

Gettingonmygoat · 22/04/2024 20:33

BagOfBollocks · 22/04/2024 18:30

Do you clean the loo seats at work or if you need to use a public toilet?

Yes i did clean the loo at work and if i can i clean public loo seats.

fromaytobe · 22/04/2024 20:45

FuzzyWuzzyWuzABear · 22/04/2024 16:56

OMG so do we.

It must look like a swinger's party 🤣🤣

Fruit bowls United!

NahNeedsGarlic · 22/04/2024 21:12

underscorer · 22/04/2024 19:42

You seem like a laugh.

Same. Actually it’s a family with allergies.

PoppyCherryDog · 22/04/2024 22:11

have look around the property opening all drawers and cupboards having a nosy etc. and let the dogs out into the garden

2ndMrsdeWinter · 22/04/2024 22:20

Run around after the kids: applying lotion, tying up hair and persuading them to put on arm bands/be careful before they all cannonball into the pool at 100mph.

WalkingWombat · 22/04/2024 22:23

dollahsains · 22/04/2024 19:05

I wash everything before use - even at home!
Because some geniuses leave the cupboard doors open too long... I opened it once and a spider scuttled out. Eurgh.

You have OCD, please get help.

Ginmonkeyagain · 22/04/2024 22:42

Hang up clothes, put cosmetics in the bathroom, have a shower, go out and get a drink/food.

Remoteaccess · 22/04/2024 23:38

Gettingonmygoat · 22/04/2024 20:33

Yes i did clean the loo at work and if i can i clean public loo seats.

I'm guessing you didn't need telling that's not normal ...

sailyclose · 23/04/2024 00:21

I try and dump my bags and get out in 5 mins. Any longer and it turns into hours and I lose that day (I have ADHD and so do all my friends/family it seems! The faffing is unreal!!!)

PoopingAllTheWay · 23/04/2024 00:25

Clean everything!!!!

Noyok · 23/04/2024 00:27

Wi-Fi code and view. Bedrooms am not too bothered about…view and Wi-Fi is my priority.

crumblingschools · 23/04/2024 00:28

Why do people go on holiday to do housework (and why is it always women who think this is needed)?

How many people have been sick from using cutlery when on holiday?

I’m amazed some of you leave your own home

Noyok · 23/04/2024 00:29

sailyclose · 23/04/2024 00:21

I try and dump my bags and get out in 5 mins. Any longer and it turns into hours and I lose that day (I have ADHD and so do all my friends/family it seems! The faffing is unreal!!!)

Same ..I just used to leave husband to faff !😳

SnowFrogJelly · 23/04/2024 00:33

Get trollied Grin

SnowFrogJelly · 23/04/2024 00:34

AceofPentacles · 22/04/2024 11:42

Get my nhs grade disinfectant wipes out and clean all door handles, light switches, remotes and bathroom taps .

🙄

PoopingAllTheWay · 23/04/2024 00:51

This is just a thread asking what you do first

NO NEED AT ALL to jump on other people’s answers.
Just because a poster cleans
They arent responding to you calling you weird cause you are ‘obsessed’ with social media because you get the wifi code or call you a ‘alcoholic’ because the first thing you do is have a glass of wine

Christ, why do people always have something to say!!!

DO YOU!

crumblingschools · 23/04/2024 00:57

It’s not exactly a holiday if you clean everything though when you get there. What if you are only going for the weekend, you spend the whole time cleaning. That’s not a holiday.

And I ask again why is it mainly women who think this is something that needs to be done, and they are the ones who do it. Why not get partners to help if it is so necessary?

PoopingAllTheWay · 23/04/2024 01:01

crumblingschools · 23/04/2024 00:57

It’s not exactly a holiday if you clean everything though when you get there. What if you are only going for the weekend, you spend the whole time cleaning. That’s not a holiday.

And I ask again why is it mainly women who think this is something that needs to be done, and they are the ones who do it. Why not get partners to help if it is so necessary?

How do you know the parters arent helping and only woman are doing it?

You arent paying so why are you worrying what anyone else is doing