I am so confused! During the summer I live at my lakefront cabin near Yellowstone NP. While living there we rent out our three extra rooms in the cabin. Guests love our place because of the location and because we offer sweet outdoor amenities like kayaks, canoes, paddleboards, tomahawk throwing, bear spray, etc. We love meeting all our guests, interacting with them, and inviting them out to have s'mores at night down by the lake. They enjoy interacting with each other as well.
Our cabin is a shared cabin so guests share our kitchen, our bathrooms, our living room, etc. Some guests stay one day, others might stay 2-5 days. They are always coming and going and love our place.
We have been busier than ever even with Covid-19. We have communicated with all our guests that our place is a shared place and that risks of Covid do exist. We encourage guests with health risks not to stay at our place and allow cancellation of needed because of this. We also let guests know that we have stepped up our cleaning by using Clorox wipes on allsurfaces, providing guests with personal hand sanitizer, and encouraging social distancing. I really thought we have been doing it the right way.
I however just can't imagine how the new Covid policy would work in a shared place. It sounds to me like Airbnb is planning to kill off all shared places or turn us into liars. 😞
For example:
1) With guests here all the time it sounds like I and my guests would be wearing a mask 24/7 at my own cabin. That just isn't going to happen. I know certain guests might not wear their mask or forget. This might anger another guest. I might forget my mask on a trip to the kitchen offending a guest checking in at that moment. It's just impossible. Will guests be able to request full refunds if another one of my guests forgets a mask or if I accidently forget on my way to the bathroom? Yikes! Too crazy!
2) Our guests touch everything! There are germs on everything. It doesn't matter how much I clean. From dishes, to paddles, to life jackets, to bear spray, to crayons, to books, to maps, DVD's, remote controls. Our door handle gets used like 50 times by up to 12 different people. There's no way to honestly meet the requirement! There is no way my door handle is clean for more than. 5 minutes! I promise you that ... It will always have germs on it.
In all honesty I feel like I need a COVID GUARANTEED HERE badge! We do our best but there are just risks when staying in a shared place.
In a private place with separate entrances or an entire home I can see this new clean policy working but in a shared place it just doesn't seem possible.
Anyway ... I don't plan to agree to the policy. I would hate to lie to my guests. Can someone shed some light on what will happen after Nov 20th for me? Does my account close? Do I lose all ratings? Does anyone see a solution possible for their shared areas?
Thanks ahead of time for your insights.