Locks

[Christina1288]

Hi, we’re in the process of preparing 1 or 2 rooms in our home for guests and wondering if other hosts would recommend that we have locks on guest bedroom doors and also on our own private rooms. We’d like to think we can trust folk, but is this wise?

thank you

@Christina1288

[Gordon0 · Accepted solution]

Back in the day when we started hosting, @Christina1288, we didn't have locks on internal doors and I didn't think much about it. Of course, those were the days when when Airbnb was in its infancy and hosting felt very different, more intimate - like you had a (paying) friend staying. 

Fast-forward to today and we're effectively B&Bs (with or without breakfast) and locks are, certainly amongst certain guests, expected. 

I have locks on my internal doors now and 9/10 guests use them.

[Christina1288]

@Gordon0 

Thank you!

[Brian2036]

I would lock everything. If you accept children lock everything twice.

[Sarah977]

@Christina1288  I host one guest at a time in a private room. I haven't ever put a lock on my bedroom door and never had an issue but that doesn't mean you would have the same experience.

My guest door already has a lock, as it has a separate entrance.

If you are going to be renting out 2 rooms to 2 different guests, you should definitely have locks on the bedroom doors. You don't want a situation where one guest could enter another's room while they are out, either to snoop or steal, or that a guest could claim that someone did.

[Christina1288]

@Sarah977 

Thank you for your advise.