Hi everyone,
As people are turning towards a healthy lifestyle, it might be interesting to include gym or yoga equipments to the listing. I'm curious to know if the hosts in our community provide any fitness gear for guests?
Do you go with simple equipments such as dumbbells 🏋🏻, yoga mats 🧘🏻♀️ or treadmills 🏃?
How do your guests react to having such fitness amenities?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Regards,
Elisa
Elisa, I am a host, I never like to let a good drinking partner escape!! And in my house rules folder I do list the nice walking trails in the area.
I do however like and encourage guests involvement around here! I have beautiful stories of guests involvement in the garden, but maybe that's for another post!
Up the back of the house block, I have my 'man cave'!
It's just a shed, but every man needs his escape space, somewhere he can do whatever he wants with.....A woman's influence is not required here!
Inside I have my computer, my wine racks, all those things that are dear to me.....
Including my piano......
I have played a piano all my life, but when we moved into the hills I found it almost impossible to keep an acoustic piano in tune with the change of season, so in 1994 I bought a very good quality digital piano, and have played that ever since! It's sound, touch and feel is always, perfect!
We had a couple book to stay here for an evening a few summers ago. They belong to a worldwide service club, and as part of a cultural exchange they had a 67 year old Japanese woman staying with them.
They took this woman into the Flinders Ranges to show her some of the beauty of the Australian outback and booked a night here on their way home.....my property being about the half way point between the outback and their home in Victoria.
It was a nice warm afternoon and they asked me to join them at one of the outdoor settings for a drink and a chat, and conversation got around to the fact I had a piano in my man cave!
This Japanese woman pricked up her ears and asked in very broken English if she could see the piano, so we moved into the man cave. This woman sat down at that piano and she was THE best jazz pianist I have ever heard!!
She played all the old jazz classics with a touch and feel I had never heard before, we got a heap of Indian takeaway for dinner and listened to her long into the night.
You can't manufacture experiences like these! They just come out of nowhere and make it such a wonderful experience being an Airbnb host!
So Elisa, yes I do encourage guests activities here.....but only on things they can't damage or hurt themselves on!.
Cheers.........Rob.
I do still have contact with her Elisa. Her name is Ito Fujishiro and she lives in Chiba in Tokyo. She used to play professionally years ago but now just plays to express her creativity. Every now and then I send her something I have done and she sends me interpretations of her music. Music knows no barriers Elisa, it is the language of the world.
Experiences, my God how many would you like?
I got a strange booking request from (I will call him Shane) from South Dakota. I looked at his profile and he had no guest reviews but did have one review as a host......
The thing that intrigued me Elisa, he had one wish list item on his profile, and that was to stay at my listing. In his booking request he was to fly to Australia from the West coast of the USA stay a week in our listing and then fly back to the US again!!!!!
Who on earth does that? Flies half way round the world to simply spend a week in one obscure Airbnb listing. I thought he might have been a company mole coming to check us out so I accepted his booking, but I made sure I didn't leave any stone un- turned here. This was going to be an exemplary hosting.
Shane arrived and we spent a nice week, we shared a few drinks and meals. He tried to convert me into drinking Bourbon Whisky and I tried to convert him to Adelaide Hills Shiraz.....both of which were singularly unsuccessful.
But he wasn't a company mole, he was just a rancher from the Black Hills of Dakota!
I said to him....."Why have you come all this way just to spend a week in one location"? Shane took a breath and started to tear up! He said his wife was an ultra-marathon runner and a few years previously she had been out training, was struck by a vehicle and never came home! Shane was forever holding that candle of love for her and having difficulty moving on with his life and he said...."Each year I go to an Airbnb I think she would have liked"! and in 2017, it was ours!
Cheers.......Rob.
Possibly a lot has changed in 33 years Frances.
I hadn't realized the potential dangers associated with cycling until I bought my most recent bike.
For years I regularly cycle around 200 Kms per week so, I am not a complete greenhorn on a bike. But this bike is something else!
It is an American 'Specialized' brand carbon fibre road racing bike, with a massive 62 tooth chain ring!
I regularly cycle the 75 Km loop on the Amy Gillett Cycleway from home out to Mt Torrens which used to be part of the Adelaide hills rail line system back in the 70's.
Not long after purchasing this bike I had reached the summit of Mt Torrens on my return and there was about a 7 Km gentle downhill slope with big wide sweeping bends. The wind was behind me so I thought....'Here we go, I will open it up a bit'!
It was a great feeling but as I started to really wind it up I looked down at the speedo and I was doing 74 KPH and I suddenly thought...."My God, I could kill myself if I come off at this speed" so I backed it off to a more leisurely pace.
I can fully appreciate that some young buck guest would get a thrill stretching that bike out to 80-90 KPH.
The problem with life is, everything is a competition and the world is full of people who want to push their boundaries!
Cheers.......Rob.
