Every bl***y cupboard!

Sago

mabon1

The money these holidays home owners charge is beyond belief. Just get on with sorting the place out, and then you can count your earnings at leisure.

I think you would be very surprised!

There are utilities, Sky TV, internet etc, the housekeeping fees, commission to the holiday cottage company, landlord insurance, maintenance etc.

We love providing a fabulous place for people to come and stay,we get repeat customers who have a break from their everyday lives and that gives us pleasure.

We do not “rip off “ anyone.

A lot of thought, hard work and money goes into providing a successful holiday let.

But at around £4000 a week for even a non-luxury house for 10 that’s around £48000 over the peak summer weeks, so I don’t think there’s too bad a return!

Just be grateful things aren’t broken or go missing
I keep things simple and don’t over cram cupboards. Always tell guests if there is anything they can’t find and would like just ask. It is very rare this happens
We have stayed in holiday cottages jammed full of old things people no longer use at home and don’t throw away
Who needs cake tins on holiday
I certainly have never been asked to provide one

I wash everything before I use apart from bedding and towels.

£150 wouldn't replace wool blankets I think, escaped.

I wonder what the cleaners were doing, Kittycat to not notice between visitors!

That's awful, I'm not surprised your mum was fuming, Kittycat. I think that's why owners ask for such large, £150+, security deposits these days.

When my mum and dad owned a caravan they made sure it had all decent quality equipment and bedding. At the end of the 1st season when we went to “put it to bed for the winter” we found people had swapped all the nice matching cutlery for odd ones and the nice wool blankets for cheap nylon ones. My mum was fuming!

Or who need things somewhere else?

I do think people should try to put them back though tbh.

Very droll.

MissAdventure

It's a like a snapshot into people's private lives, seeing what they get up to on holiday.
Who moves things into different rooms, and alters cupboards?
Fascinating.

Who moves things into different rooms, and alters cupboards?

People obsessed with decluttering 😁

It's a like a snapshot into people's private lives, seeing what they get up to on holiday.
Who moves things into different rooms, and alters cupboards?
Fascinating.

Sago

BlueBelle

Haha MissA
my first thought how lucky are some to have a holiday home to let, my second thought was how nice that they cleaned it and left it in good order, and my third ‘ what a crime !!!’

The guests don’t clean!
We have a company do that.
In good order meant nothing broken or stolen.

We owned a holiday let in France a few years ago and the things ‘guests’ did beggared belief! From changing the contents of cupboards from where they belonged to a totally different one, to actually moving things into other rooms! Bizarre!
The worst guests we had were colleagues of mine. I dread to think what their house is like because they really messed ours up. Then they had the audacity to moan that they heard traffic going by at night and it kept them awake! They topped it off by leaving the only unpleasant review we had in 4 years! I say that, but reviewers after them picked up on the traffic but no-one had ever mentioned it before my colleagues’ review. I soon learned never to let it out to people I knew! I could have killed them!

Well, I wouldn't be posting big worries on social media, but if you think we should, GG76 then fill your boots, you start, go ahead.
We're all agog.

Be a laugh a minute on here if we all posted our big worries and nothing else.

GG76

If this is your biggest worry in life then you perhaps have too much time on your hands and need to get a life.

How rude! Sago hasn't said this is her biggest worry in life, it was a lighthearted grump! Do you only ever speak about your biggest worry, never the minor ones?

Stock phrase on social media when someone has nothing interesting to say.

Boring.

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I expect most of us try to put things back where we found them... but different people do use the kitchen differently.

I want some things close by (a teapot for example) - Some people don't use one at all and are happy to leave it in the cupboard with the vase and the old toastie maker!

MissAdventure

I bet some of you are pleased to get home for a rest, after taking photos, using ramekins, spinning salads...

😂😂😂

Spinning salads is hard work!

We had a short break this year. I spent quite some time trying to work out where the kitchen wares were. Glasses (8 champagne flutes and one tumbler) with saucepans, dinner plates with a sieve and a couple of mugs, breakfast bowl in the microwave and cutlery in 2 drawers. Only ever found one tumbler; DH had his night time water in a champagne flute. Not sure if it was previous occupants or the cleaners just putting things in cupboards willy nilly in their hurry to get to the next accommodation. We found the remote control for the TV in a vase after looking in the obvious places. The folder with local information came to light the morning we were leaving when I checked under seat cushions to be sure we hadn't left anything behind. I do love a treasure hunt.

mabon1

The money these holidays home owners charge is beyond belief. Just get on with sorting the place out, and then you can count your earnings at leisure.

I think you would be very surprised!

There are utilities, Sky TV, internet etc, the housekeeping fees, commission to the holiday cottage company, landlord insurance, maintenance etc.

We love providing a fabulous place for people to come and stay,we get repeat customers who have a break from their everyday lives and that gives us pleasure.

We do not “rip off “ anyone.

A lot of thought, hard work and money goes into providing a successful holiday let.

When I was a teenager my mum employed a cleaner once a week at our house. Every week she rearranged the ornaments in my bedroom. If it had been random rearranging as she dusted I wouldn't have minded but every week the same things were moved to the same places. I assume she thought her arrangement was superior to mine, but every week I was incensed! I'd come home, rush upstairs and put everything back to its correct position. You'd have thought she would get the message. Really stressful and in my opinion she was incredibly rude! For that reason I always try really hard not to rearrange other people's stuff, whether it's my adult children's homes or on holiday. I try really hard to leave everything as I found it.
I dread the day when I become so infirm that I have to employ a cleaner in case this happens again. With any luck I won't need to, or I'll find someone who has enough respect for my home to simply remove the dirt and leave the rest as it was.
Of course over time I guess a few things will move in a holiday let even if people go in with my attitude of respect and care. If one or two things move with every hirer, things might seem chaotic after a few months of different hirers, a bit like chinese whispers where a small change gets multiplied until the whole message is unintelligible! But you only need one hirer like my mum's cleaner and nothing will remain where it started.

MissAdventure

I bet some of you are pleased to get home for a rest, after taking photos, using ramekins, spinning salads...

🤣🤣🤣

My OH, remember he is a bit OCD, takes pics of stuff in a holiday rental but not so he knows where everything should go, though I imagine for that reason as well, but in case the owner accuses us of any breakages that don’t happen on our watch.
I just leave him to it 😜

I bet some of you are pleased to get home for a rest, after taking photos, using ramekins, spinning salads...

janestheone

but you take pictures of it all when you arrive, so you can return it to how it was when you leave. Doesn't everybody?

Ha ha! NO!

(surely this is a joke?!)