@Catherine969
Hello there, thanks for your advice about the breakfast.
The reason I provide breakfast is because it is, in my opinion, a value added service that costs less to provide,than the perceived added value by the guest, particularly now in a rural area where air bnb this season has mushroomed with many others offering a room for as little as £19 per night....
.I cannot compete with that once I factor in wear and tear to my beautiful home, the energy costs that guests use up with really prolonged showers, leaving the lights on in their bathroom with extractor fan running all night, the central heating at full blast in summer! Yes you read that correctly and so on.
I am now coming to the conclusion that next year will be my last season as thecstandard of guests this season has been questionable with many using the platform like a hotel.
I rent 2 bedrooms in my large family home and don’t do self catering as I don’t want guests using my kitchen as I use it several times daily to prepare meals for my family.....too many cooks and all that springs to mind!
Furthermore my standards of housekeeping are high and I think that self catering lerha
scallows guests to feel really at home and live in whatever conditions they think are normal and acceptable for them, but unfortunately not acceptable to me and who am I to judge other folks standards of living?
Its just that after this season, I’m going to have a rethink as I think the platform has mushroomed exponentially without educating guests about the fact we are not hotels but ordinary folk hosting guests.
We operate on trust as we really do not know who is sharing our home with us, and I’m beginning to have doubts about the entire concept of the sharing economy when you have an increasing gap between guests expectations and what we as hosts provide.