Coronavirus uk

[Gaynor25]

Can the guests in my property travel home at the end of their stay. They arrrived before the announcement

[Lawrene0]

Who knows, @Gaynor25 ? So much is uncertain. Anyway, a web search could help. When are they leaving? Where are they from? Where is your property? What did they say when you asked them?

Or are they asking you? I know I have a few May and June bookings who are writing now to ask me whether they will be able to travel then. I'm afraid I am little help to them, not being a prophet... 

Stay well!

[Anonymous]

@Gaynor25   Your profile is empty so I can't see where in the world you are. But you have to follow your local laws on this one. Airbnb will not require you to host your guests after their checkout date if you don't want to extend the booking. But there might be travel restrictions preventing them from getting home.

[Mike-And-Jane0]

Given the title of your post I guess you are in the UK.

I think technically they cannot go home but we had a guest who arrived just before the restrictions, stayed a week and then went home. I guess the police could have stopped them but surely they would be reasonable. 

I would give your guest the option of extending their stay or risking the trip home. Its the guest who would be breaking the law.

I assume you have no one coming into the property as that would definitely be wrong and if there was I think it would be the host breaking the law.

[Helen3]

Who knows @Mike-And-Jane0  - @Gaynor25  has created a fake profile to ask this question for some reason.

@Gaynor25  you can only have local key workers staying at your property under the Corona virus legislation introduced last week.

Look at the information Airbnb sent to you about this, last week and reinforced in guidance issued yesterday for UK hosts.

If you are a host you will have received this information.

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Helen3  Perhaps @Gaynor25  was concerned she might be breaking the law and hence chose a fake profile as a way to hide this.

All very weird but as they say 'theres nowt so queer as folk'

[Martin0]

Re Airbnb's application of the short term rental restrictions of the government's Coronavirus rules, as explained in their email this morning, I have referred them to my situation in Section 5, Further restrictions and closures during the emergency period (4) (a) , (i)

(4) A person referred to in paragraph (3) may continue to carry on their business and keep any premises used in that business open—

(a) to provide accommodation for any person, who—

(i) is unable to return to their main residence;

This is my situation with a journalist from Dublin in one of my self contained apartments with a media graduate from the US in the other.

As it happens, I do not have any Airbnb bookings for the rest of this year.