@Sara-and-Brian0......Hi Sara, gee that makes it a bit hard when your husband cuts you off at the ankles by leaving his bong dregs in the sink and you blame the guests!!! WOW, is that really what happened??
Must admit I would feel a bit miffed if I was the guest and you blamed me for your husbands bad habits!
Sara, my wife and I were smokers once...managed to give them away in 1992 but there was a time when we were spending more a week on cigarettes than we were the mortgage for the house!
We both understand what it is like to be a smoker. I know full well that guests will smoke inside our hosting cottage despite the 'no smoking' policy I have. I tell them they are more than welcome to puff their heads off out in the garden at the rear of the property, I even provide large pottery ashtrays for them. But I know how a smokers brain is wired! He/she will sit on the step to the doorway from the main room into the bathroom with the exhaust fan on and think they have got away with it.
I can bleat and bitch about it but why....what good will it do? All that will happen is I will pi*s them off and end up with a poor review......and my business comes from my reviews! It's a revenue base I protect in any way I can......I am fully booked.
I have an ironising air filtration system in the cottage which truly takes care of cigarette smoke quickly and all I do is make a bit of a joke about it with the guest and the problem just disappears. He/she feels guilty, thanks me for my understanding and I end up with a good review.
Sara, smokers are smokers, try not to get precious about it but take steps to protect yourself, invest in an ironsing filter....it is a great investment.....ours has paid for itself many times over.
Cheers.....Rob