Do You Have Something Annoying That Guests Do That Drives You CrAzY Each Time They Do It?

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I'm tired of people resetting the AC. Really tired of it. It creates endless meaningless work for me. It takes time out of my day for no reason. Is it really that difficult to use the button? Really?
I'm tempted to put up the following sign.... "Please note, the A/C has a counter for maintenance, when disconnected or reset the counter flips prematurely and the maintenance person must be called at a cost of $65. The charge will be passed on to you. Please don't disconnect or reset the A/C, use the remote or the buttons to turn it off and on."
It's either that or a sign that says "Resetting the AC makes the owner grumpy. The same owner that makes your breakfast...."
 
I would definitely put up a sign and I like your version except I would try it first leaving out the "The charge will be passed on to you." See if they get the hint without actually saying you're passing on the cost. You can always add it if this doesn't work but I'd go the less upfront way first to see what happens. Good luck.
 
I like the second sign...a little humor goes a long way. If that doesn't work with your guests, get the gun out!
 
I like the 2nd version too.
The one that drives DH nuts (as he looks after the courtesy trays) is people that use the cups or mugs, then put them back on the tray as if they've not been used. It's so easy to miss this and then the next guests find dirty cups.
 
Just today it happened again. Rooms all cleaned and I go around making my last sweep and I find one of the bathrooms has been used.
How do we know it's been used? Some people were born in the cellar and never brought up.
Seriously. Who flushes the toilet for you at home? Who drains the sink and cleans your whiskers up?
Even if they thought this was a shared bathroom, do they think someone is standing outside the door to clean it each time?
Dh already checked this bathroom this morning. So it happened when? Who knows. Door is locked now. Won't stop that same person again tomorrow if the guest leaves the door unlocked at night.
I'm thinking of a sign IN the bathroom asking "Are you staying in the Green Room? If not, zip it and get out of the other guest's bathroom!"
 
Just today it happened again. Rooms all cleaned and I go around making my last sweep and I find one of the bathrooms has been used.
How do we know it's been used? Some people were born in the cellar and never brought up.
Seriously. Who flushes the toilet for you at home? Who drains the sink and cleans your whiskers up?
Even if they thought this was a shared bathroom, do they think someone is standing outside the door to clean it each time?
Dh already checked this bathroom this morning. So it happened when? Who knows. Door is locked now. Won't stop that same person again tomorrow if the guest leaves the door unlocked at night.
I'm thinking of a sign IN the bathroom asking "Are you staying in the Green Room? If not, zip it and get out of the other guest's bathroom!".
keep those rooms locked. i thought we discussed that over and over.
 
Just today it happened again. Rooms all cleaned and I go around making my last sweep and I find one of the bathrooms has been used.
How do we know it's been used? Some people were born in the cellar and never brought up.
Seriously. Who flushes the toilet for you at home? Who drains the sink and cleans your whiskers up?
Even if they thought this was a shared bathroom, do they think someone is standing outside the door to clean it each time?
Dh already checked this bathroom this morning. So it happened when? Who knows. Door is locked now. Won't stop that same person again tomorrow if the guest leaves the door unlocked at night.
I'm thinking of a sign IN the bathroom asking "Are you staying in the Green Room? If not, zip it and get out of the other guest's bathroom!".
keep those rooms locked. i thought we discussed that over and over.
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EmptyNest said:
keep those rooms locked. i thought we discussed that over and over.
I thought it was locked. Dh unlocked it. He got to clean the mess.
 
OK ... on the theme. I am not sure it counts as crazy, but it is mildly maddening when the super nice, helpful guests bring their dirty dishes into the kitchen where I am working and ask me where to put them. Well, not here. I have to politely steer them back into the service area where they see the sink and dishwasher that I have at the service bar specifically for breakfast wash up. Then I have to deal with the dish clutter right away, when I would prefer to keep them on the (individual couples 2-top) breakfast tables until I can bus.
The problem is that it is the nicest guests who feel bad about how hard I must be working who do this ... and we have lots of them.
 
OK ... on the theme. I am not sure it counts as crazy, but it is mildly maddening when the super nice, helpful guests bring their dirty dishes into the kitchen where I am working and ask me where to put them. Well, not here. I have to politely steer them back into the service area where they see the sink and dishwasher that I have at the service bar specifically for breakfast wash up. Then I have to deal with the dish clutter right away, when I would prefer to keep them on the (individual couples 2-top) breakfast tables until I can bus.
The problem is that it is the nicest guests who feel bad about how hard I must be working who do this ... and we have lots of them..
And I can't always smile when I turn around with 2 plates full of food headed for the tables only to be met by a guest with half of their table cleared off, trying to hand it to me or, worse, set that dirty stuff down next to plated food going out of the kitchen.
They won't take it back to the dining room so they set it in front of the coffee service so now anyone getting coffee has to work around their mess. Until I'm done serving. Hot food first!
And now everyone thinks this is what they need to do.
Like you, I don't want to bus tables until I know I have room for them.
Then, the next guests will seat themselves at a table with dirty napkins and used coffee cups and I can't sweep the table off and get rid of the crumbs.
Last guests today sat at the only table NOT set up. They realized there was no silverware at that table and, instead of moving, grabbed silverware from another table and sat in the previous guest's mess. Jam, crumbs, bits of egg.
Sigh.
 
people who sit on dirty tables drive me mad.
Obviously it's a universal problem because they do it here too. We have 3 tables and 3 rooms, everybody gets a table and no tables have to be cleared ready for the next set of guests.
Simple..... you'd have thought.
 
OK ... on the theme. I am not sure it counts as crazy, but it is mildly maddening when the super nice, helpful guests bring their dirty dishes into the kitchen where I am working and ask me where to put them. Well, not here. I have to politely steer them back into the service area where they see the sink and dishwasher that I have at the service bar specifically for breakfast wash up. Then I have to deal with the dish clutter right away, when I would prefer to keep them on the (individual couples 2-top) breakfast tables until I can bus.
The problem is that it is the nicest guests who feel bad about how hard I must be working who do this ... and we have lots of them..
Agree. The nicest ones have done this. All came to a halt when the door was installed. Now when they offer, I smile and remind them that t h e y are on vacation!
 
OK ... on the theme. I am not sure it counts as crazy, but it is mildly maddening when the super nice, helpful guests bring their dirty dishes into the kitchen where I am working and ask me where to put them. Well, not here. I have to politely steer them back into the service area where they see the sink and dishwasher that I have at the service bar specifically for breakfast wash up. Then I have to deal with the dish clutter right away, when I would prefer to keep them on the (individual couples 2-top) breakfast tables until I can bus.
The problem is that it is the nicest guests who feel bad about how hard I must be working who do this ... and we have lots of them..
Agree. The nicest ones have done this. All came to a halt when the door was installed. Now when they offer, I smile and remind them that t h e y are on vacation!
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Anon Inn said:
Agree. The nicest ones have done this. All came to a halt when the door was installed. Now when they offer, I smile and remind them that t h e y are on vacation!
That's my line! "You're on vacation! No need to work!"
 
OK ... on the theme. I am not sure it counts as crazy, but it is mildly maddening when the super nice, helpful guests bring their dirty dishes into the kitchen where I am working and ask me where to put them. Well, not here. I have to politely steer them back into the service area where they see the sink and dishwasher that I have at the service bar specifically for breakfast wash up. Then I have to deal with the dish clutter right away, when I would prefer to keep them on the (individual couples 2-top) breakfast tables until I can bus.
The problem is that it is the nicest guests who feel bad about how hard I must be working who do this ... and we have lots of them..
Agree. The nicest ones have done this. All came to a halt when the door was installed. Now when they offer, I smile and remind them that t h e y are on vacation!
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Anon Inn said:
Agree. The nicest ones have done this. All came to a halt when the door was installed. Now when they offer, I smile and remind them that t h e y are on vacation!
That's my line! "You're on vacation! No need to work!"
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Agree ..... it's the nicest ones.
My solution? I have a picture hanging in my entry that says "I'm not bossy, I just have better ideas". I make guests read it on arrival and then have fun with it for the rest of their stay ..... "no - you may not clean your table" "no - you may not carry your bags" ...... etc etc. Oh I should probably mention that this was given to me by a long-term repeat guest on his FIRST stay. Ooops.
 
Let me add one more - families who come for breakfast one at a time, take a table for 2 and slowly cram 4 or 5 of them around it making it impossible to get by or serve them!
 
1. Guests who turn the air conditioner on full blast while leaving the windows wide open, even though we have a note on the AC unit reminding them to close the doors and windows.
2. Guests who speak at the top of their lungs at 6 a.m., thinking they are the only ones in the house. Even worse is when they are speaking that loudly on their cell phones at 6 a.m.
3. The worst, for me, is people who just pull in the driveway, get out of their cars and walk around the back of the house "just to see the view". Not guests, mind you, just strangers driving by. We don't have any signs out to indicate this is a B&B so no one without reservations would know that this is a bed and breakfast. When this happens on a day we don't have guests I want to scream.
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Sorry for the necropost, but after managing to get them to stop unplugging it for a long while, today someone found a brand new way to reset the unit. Ahole ingenuity. So, today I had to get out the ladder, reset the AC again. And then I did what I should have done a long time ago.... I fixed it all up....
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I have half a roll left over :)
 
Glad this post came back up. I was catching up on 4 days of laundry (been away on my own), had the sign out and someone rang the bell. I thought it was UPS, should have looked first. No, tonight's guests wanting to ask a million questions, see their room, carry on a conversation and try to hit me up for a free upgrade.
Guess what guys? You probably could have gotten a $30 upgrade on the house had you not totally ignored the request to come back later. Had you not tried to plead poverty about paying for the upgrade. Had you graciously exited instead of yammering on after I explained I really needed to get on with the cleaning, etc.
When they reserved the entire house was open. They choose cheap. They ignored the posted signage. Pay up.
BTW, expecting my usual grumpy innkeeper review after this. A month later than usual, but it's been a tough month so far.
 
Glad this post came back up. I was catching up on 4 days of laundry (been away on my own), had the sign out and someone rang the bell. I thought it was UPS, should have looked first. No, tonight's guests wanting to ask a million questions, see their room, carry on a conversation and try to hit me up for a free upgrade.
Guess what guys? You probably could have gotten a $30 upgrade on the house had you not totally ignored the request to come back later. Had you not tried to plead poverty about paying for the upgrade. Had you graciously exited instead of yammering on after I explained I really needed to get on with the cleaning, etc.
When they reserved the entire house was open. They choose cheap. They ignored the posted signage. Pay up.
BTW, expecting my usual grumpy innkeeper review after this. A month later than usual, but it's been a tough month so far..
Have I mentioned guests who sit down in the dining room but tell me they're not ready to eat yet, they're enjoying their coffee? Hey, it's 9 am. You're in the dining room. You're eating.
The other guests just went outside. They waited until 9:30 to come in and sit down.
 
Sorry for the necropost, but after managing to get them to stop unplugging it for a long while, today someone found a brand new way to reset the unit. Ahole ingenuity. So, today I had to get out the ladder, reset the AC again. And then I did what I should have done a long time ago.... I fixed it all up....
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I have half a roll left over :).
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