I have to say that my younger (obviously of legal age) guests are typically the least bothersome guests, although their rooms are usually messier. They're very self-reliant.
And my only 3 star reviews have all come from over the age of 60 guests who were cranky when they were here. One even called my husband a shoe nazi because he asked them to take their snow & sand covered shoes off in the entryway like everyone does all winter here in the mountains. Older city slickers who were appalled we didn't want them to traipse across my wood floors leaving snow/sand/salt behind and then grind it into my carpets. They were traveling with another couple and they both gave 3 star reviews -- asking them to take their shoes off set the four of them off from the moment they arrived and they were cranky the entire four days because they came to a location where everything is outdoors and they were too cold to go outside.
Give me young ones who disappear into their room and eat breakfast then go out all day to explore, come back and relax with a beer and eat my cookies, and then head out to dinner and back to their rooms or the outdoor fire pit! Young, self-reliant, don't call asking for discounts (always the older ones who want AAA, AARP, I'm Related to Moses, etc. discounts) -- perfect combination. Now all I have to do is bottle and clone them and I'll be the happiest innkeeper of all..
MtnKeeper said:
I have to say that my younger (obviously of legal age) guests are typically the least bothersome guests, although their rooms are usually messier. They're very self-reliant.
And my only 3 star reviews have all come from over the age of 60 guests who were cranky when they were here. One even called my husband a shoe nazi because he asked them to take their snow & sand covered shoes off in the entryway like everyone does all winter here in the mountains. Older city slickers who were appalled we didn't want them to traipse across my wood floors leaving snow/sand/salt behind and then grind it into my carpets. They were traveling with another couple and they both gave 3 star reviews -- asking them to take their shoes off set the four of them off from the moment they arrived and they were cranky the entire four days because they came to a location where everything is outdoors and they were too cold to go outside.
Give me young ones who disappear into their room and eat breakfast then go out all day to explore, come back and relax with a beer and eat my cookies, and then head out to dinner and back to their rooms or the outdoor fire pit! Young, self-reliant, don't call asking for discounts (always the older ones who want AAA, AARP, I'm Related to Moses, etc. discounts) -- perfect combination. Now all I have to do is bottle and clone them and I'll be the happiest innkeeper of all.
I couldn't agree with you more! I love our younger guests and most of them have never been to a b&b before. Like you, I find that the older guests are the ones that require more hand holding and also are the ones who clean out all the 'free' goodies. The summer busy season is when we get the older crowd who have arrived from all over the U.S. and are the ones that want to see everything from their car. They think we're in the middle of nowhere because if they can't see it out their car window, then it doesn't exist!
The other day I realized we had no guests over 40! Easy, peasy!
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How strange! The older crowd comes here after labor day when all the families go home. I find the middle age crowd to be the difficult ones. They can't eat anything, have 6 million restrictions on stairs, noise, bed size, feathers/no feathers, etc.
Altho, have some youngsters coming this week, for a week, who don't eat gluten or dairy. (Youngsters guessing from the number of !!!! in their email about food.)
Youngsters = under 35 (weekends for weddings)
Middle agers = 35 to 60 (summer)
Oldsters = over 60 (this is our core guest after labor day)
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