Guests having visitors

[Brian1560]

Hi

Where do people stand with allowing guests to have visitors?

Obviously this exceeds the number of people that is booked. But they’re not staying the night. 

My listing states that no parties are allowed and sound to a minimum with no noise after 11.  Also saying a lady with 2 children live upstairs. 

Last night a couple with good reviews stayed. They had visitors around who stayed til after midnight. They were quite noisy. Despite the person who booked mentioning the people upstairs when I welcomed them in. 

I’m mindful that people may choose Airbnb over a hotel to be able to have a dinner party.  But does this breach my house rules?

I’m not sure whether I should state no visitors or of this is too strict. 

Be great to know your thoughts. 

Thanks 

Brian

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@Brian1560  Hosts are allowed to set their own rules concerning unregistered guests/visitors, but they should be very clearly disclosed in the House Rules section of your listing. In your case, the listing is not clear on whether the maximum applies to all persons present or only overnight guests, nor is it clear what you consider to be "noise." (The usual defense is: "we were just talking," but nobody seems to realize how loud their voice gets after a few drinks).

The moment an unregistered guest enters your property, much of your insurance and liability protection for that booking is effectively null and void, so it's really not in your interest to allow guests to have outside visitors under any circumstances - and it's best to be excruciatingly clear about that in your rules. If you'd rather take the risk of guests inviting in people you did not approve (be it dinner guests, or some rando they met at a bar) than appear "too strict," you might consider requiring guests to obtain your approval and set a limit to how late they can stay.

[Mark116]

@Brian1560   We say no one who isn't on the reservation is allowed on the property w/out our permission.  Once in a while someone will ask if their sister/friend/brother can come for dinner or even spend the night and 1x someone asked if they could have a small dinner party.  We said yes to all of these requests because the purpose is that we have knowledge of what is going on in advance.

[Andrea-and-Francis0]

We don't allow any unregistered guests/visitors due to insurance, liability, safety concerns with unknown strangers in your home & visitors don't follow your house rules so we have stopped allowing them as stated in our house rules (we do make exceptions for really nice, honest & respectful guests that ask us for a visitor here & there but we don't promote this 🙂

[Deirdre43]

I tell my guests that no outside, unregistered guests are permitted on the property.  

it is my understanding that Airbnbs insurance will not pay for injury to, or damage from unregistered guests.  
This is how I explain it to my guests.  I also tell them that there are video cameras outside the unit.  I remind them that I will ask them to leave with no refund if they have unregistered guests on the property.

I just had a guest cancel because of this.  That’s ok, I would rather have them cancel, than risk being sued by an injured, uncovered visitor.