AIBU to expect a dining table?

My Malaysian friends who live in London like to go home at Christmas to see family, so needed to book a place to stay. On Air B&B there was a flat available on the ground floor of the high-rise building in Kuala Lumpur where the grannie lives - sounded perfect, apart from the mosquitos (you don't get them if you're high up, and they thought they could deal with that). Just as a precaution, my friend asked if her brother could check it out, which is against Air B&B's rules, but they said OK. He found the place filthy, with the ceiling about to come down in the bathroom, and a large dead lizard in one of the drawers, so needless to say they will NOT be booking, but some poor unfortunate might. Scary.

It is ridiculous for them not to provide any sort of table - everybody has to eat, even if its only breakfast. I do wonder if they had a table at some stage that was damaged so they removed it. And no working oven? I think that you are due for a refund.
Not sure if you are in the UK or abroad, but I'd take it up with the booking agent immediately.

Some friends rented a flat for a weekend birthday celebration in Canary Wharf; very good accommodation and furnishings, including dining table and fully equipped kitchen, but no wine glasses or corkscrew.
Apparently the owner was muslim.

The descriptions of all the apartments in the link you posted include a dining table, OP, so it's obviously not a modern take on apartment living!

br0adwater I have found that negative reviews I have posted on booking.com simply disappear never to be read again - as a consequence I never trust any of their reviews and only book places now that I can check with TripAdvisor.

And no, you most certainly are not being unreasonable to expect a dining table in an apartment!

That’s it then, BrOadwater. Time to head for the Fat Cat !

This happened to us once in a log cabin in the Lake District. There was a really low coffee table, far too low to eat from and nothing else. It was so difficult to eat anything.

Yes Hilda, I did read the reviews at www.booking.com/hotel/gb/stunning-apartments-in-converted-chapel.en-gb.html?activeTab=htReviews and they are mostly glowing. I have now discovered the oven doesn't work. Have tried emailing and ringing the London-based management firm but no reply. It's Premier Inn for me next time. At least they don't pretend to provide an oven!

ps we sound like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party

We move around from table to table in this house - kitchen, dining room, conservatory, garden.
We'd be lost without one.

Very strange. Remind me not to book there.

All the young people I know (under 30s, under 20s) want a table to eat at. However rents are so high in some areas that some flats/houses have bedrooms made out of sitting rooms and the kitchens are very small, so they don't have a chance.

Just wait till you get to the eating plateless generation. Less washing up is the argument and, it has to be said, it's mainly sandwiches (which keep wanting to be snadwiches) and cold sausage rolls.

For a week on holiday it wouldn't really bother me t.b.h. probably because I would eat out most of the time but you mention to 'work at'. What work are you planning? Is this a working break?

I've rented a lot of Air bnb places and they vary considerably as they are people's houses, but overall I've been really happy with them. Having said that, for me, it has only been a place to sleep rather than to live in.

Yes bring it up on Trip Advisor and Booking.Com...it may just help others who are thinking of booking.

We have had cottages with odd assortments of crockery and cutlery, but I preferred that to the one where the crockery and glassware was so expensive that we hardly dared use it. There was a list of eyewatering charges for breakages!

I agree. You can't do anything about it now buy you can put a review on every site you can think of so others know.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we can all check for this before booking now.

I can't digest properly either if I eat sitting on a sofa. I never do it, always at the table and so do my children. It helps that the table is in the centre of things so to speak, not a separate dining room. But, yes I do think you should comment on this, apart from being inconvenient, the owners will surely end up with milk/coffee/tea/curry stains on their upholstery?

Oh that is disappointing I hate eating sitting on a sofa- cant digest properly.

Are you working or on holiday?

Add a review on Tripadvisor and mention the lack of a table and chairs. Have you checked out other reviews? I always do these days, before I book anything.
I also dislike balancing bowls and plates on my lap.

Sent too soon , young professionals of my acquaintance, when looking to buy or rent in suburbs around Manchester, are looking for the largest number of eating and drinking venues in a "village setting"..
These are of course in the most expensive areas.

I assume there is not a breakfast bar with stools? I would hate not to have a table - three of us are sitting outside at a table eating breakfast as I write!

Yes Greyduster, I did check the photos and some do have a table so you just expect them all to. Looking more closely now I realise quite a few (including mine) don't - www.booking.com/hotel/gb/stunning-apartments-in-converted-chapel.en-gb.html

of course once you are annoyed about one thing, others start to rankle. Why are there only 3 knives, forks and spoons and yet 15 glasses, 2 veg peelers and 7 bread knives!

Young ones who live in stunning apartments do not expect to eat in those apartments, they eat out.

No, I would also expect somewhere to sit and eat/work. However think about it it maybe just be a certain generation who do expect this,do young ones not sit with their food on their knees????

I can’t imagine not having to sit down and eat. Was it not apparent from any photographs you saw before you booked it, or in the description of the property?