Hints and tips needed - how to encourage my guests to treat my home as they would their own!

Pippa13
Level 3
Weybridge, United Kingdom

Hints and tips needed - how to encourage my guests to treat my home as they would their own!

Hi.  I have a holiday home which I regularly use myself(it really is my 'second home' and it is clear from my pictures and when guests arrive that this is a house which the owner (me) uses and values.  They also benefit from a full store cupboard and everything they will need for their stay - over an above what airbnb would expect.

 

Whilst I fully appreciate we are not all the same, and that by letting my house out I can't dictate how people treat it - I wonder if anyone else have hints and tips on how to remind guests to be kind to their rented out home? Particuarly given the ethos of AIRBNB.    I don't want to have lots of house rules, or make guests feel uncomfortable - but wonder if I could add something 'light' to the welcome note I always leave with the welcome pack (for example).

 

Most guests have been really thoughtful and I have had consistent 5* feedback - so all round both parties are mostly very happy with the arrangement - but there are times I have to grimace (saying to myself  'I'm really not sure they would do this at home')  when I notice that they have clearly been thoughtless and uncaring.

 

Guidance or examples of how you do this would be very gratefully received :-).    thank you.

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