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Vegan hosting

Hi all,

are there any fellow vegan or veggie hosts in the house?

When I started hosting a room in my vegan home a few months ago, I did consider how I want to handle kitchen access and food on the premises. I landed on taking the risk of lower conversion rate by setting a house rule of only vegan food being prepared/stored in my kitchen. What I have found is that guests simply don't follow the rules. Which makes for awkward situations - yes, I've learned that some simply just didn't get it (don't get me started on that), and I wonder how other hosts are handling this - if at all?

I could also just say that the kitchen is not available to guests - but seems unfair to everyone based on a few exceptions.
There's also not really a great way to feed that back to Airbnb, the only way is to give a lower rating in the 'followed the house rules section'. I don't actually think that anything happens based on that though - other than share the feedback with the guest.

I'm about to rent out my room on a mid-term basis to someone I know, so won't have to deal with this for much longer, but am still curious to find out how others handle this or whether you have any tips to share.

Have a great day,
Fio

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@Fio1498   I'm vegetarian, but have no written rules about meat/fish.  I rent out one room in my house and let the guest use the kitchen.  I just let them know, during the kitchen tour, that I'm vegetarian and could they please wrap any meat in a zip lock bag or a storage box - I provide these too.  They have the top shelf in the fridge and space in the freezer too.  Occasionally someone will forget to use a bag/box and just leave a packet of sliced ham/turkey open.  So I just bag it for them, let them know that I bagged it so it wouldn't dry out.  It's never been an issue at all.  However, I usually dislike the smell of their cooking meat so have to open all the windows and doors, saying - cooking always makes this place so hot.  I don't ever want to complain, just make myself comfortable.  I think if you ask them to wrap their food it should be fine.  You could consider providing a designated frying pan, saucepan and utensils in a separate cupboard for their use since this seems really important to you - I don't, the dishwasher is very efficient.

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Hi @Elisa 

on an ad hoc basis, mostly if something changes or comes up frequently, then I will look to automate it so that future guests get the information pro-actively.

 

From anecdotal feedback, the automated checkout message (which is scheduled for the afternoon 1 day before checkout) is very useful to guests. I actually thought it was redundant as Airbnb has the checkout information (and I have it in my printed house manual), but multiple guests have commented on it.

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