Hosting a guest suite with toddler living upstairs.

[Meagan-And-Elie0]

Hello community! My husband and I had the great pleasure of hosting guests in our attached guest suite last summer, 2019. We had a new baby who was very quiet and never had any noise concerns at the time. And had great reviews. But as she gets older our house is getting louder. Our guest suite in below our bedroom and bathrooms. So there is potential to avoid those areas during play time. However the suite isn’t completely sound proof. Does anyone have experience hosting guests while raising a toddler in the home? Any suggestions? 

[Maia29]

If you have laminate flooring, I would suggest buying some area rugs and carpet runners (it deadens sound). We have a galloping cat that I can sometimes hear in the downstairs Airbnb unit, so I added carpet runners for the hallway (that's the cat's favorite place to gallop-up and down the hallway). 

[Sandra126]

You could try to market to other people with a toddler. They might be the only ones who won't mind, and you can relax more about curbing or not curbing noise.

[Kevin1322]

I think you'll find that older guests, my age, will be quite tolerant, if not positively engaged with a toddler around.  On the "been there, got the T Shirt" principle.

Having become a grandad two years ago I am completely immune to toddler noise, and just find that it makes me (strangely) happy and puts a smile on my face.

Seriously, you could almost charge extra.

Which is odd, because I spent most of 20 years (seems like a century) telling my own kids to shut up a hundred times a day, then moaned about how quiet it was in the house when they eventually got their own lives and moved out.

I really like @Sandra126  's idea.  Seriously when we were first married we used to host foreign exchange students, and it really was positive for our kids as they grew up from toddlers to stroppy teens.  For the personal development of your kids (imho) there are no drawbacks in having them meet and become friends with people from differnt cultures, just positives.

[Sarah977]

@Meagan-And-Elie0  Just make the noise factor up front and center in your listing. There are some people who could sleep through a bombing. Provide earplugs for guests in case they need them.

I stayed o'nite in my daughter's basement room many times when my grandkids were little. Sounded like a herd of elephants up there, rather than 2 little girls. But the earplugs definitely helped.