Do you hang a sign when you've turned in for the night?

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Do any of you have a sign that you hang up when you've turned in yourself for the evening? What does it say? We want to let guests know that we've gone to bed but of course to contact us if it's an emergency. Sometimes they're just plain stupid reasons to wake us up. I've had guests ring the bell to get us for the following:
1 - Wanted me to make him more cookies at 10:30pm. I had already gotten into my PJs and was falling asleep. Assumed it was an emergency so got dressed ran downstairs to find him standing their with the last cookie but he wanted more.
2 - Guest about 11pm knocked to ask me to get him more firewood because his girlfriend "likes big fire in the fireplace" - I had put in the last log an hour before and lowered the air intake to allow it to burn all night and keep the place warm. He wanted a roaring fire - told him no way was I going out in the dark to wrestle bears for firewood - she'd have to enjoy it as it was. We don't keep firewood in the room and allow guests to stoke it themselves because they don't know how to control the levers and let in smoke.
3 - Last week a guest knocked at 11pm, again asleep. He needed Benadryl for his girlfriend because they had stayed in our hot tub for 3 HOURS and she was having a reaction. This after my hubby mentioned after 2 hours that they shouldn't stay in so long. Obviously, this guy would knock anyway but it's more about the others.
Since I'm up from 6am until at least 10pm, after 10pm I really only want you waking me up if the house is on fire not because you want cookies.
 
Wow.
We don't hang a sign up, no. Don't think it would matter to most because anyone who would ring the bell at that hour thinks they have an emergency.
I've had a guest demand I get dh up to fix the TV.
Odd how people will wake us up for dopey stuff but not because there's water running where it shouldn't be!
Guests ran the A/C all night 2 nights ago trying to get warm because they weren't paying attention to the directions for where the thermostat is.
 
Those are all just incredibly rude guests. Do they have to know where to physically find you? Sorry, I don't know your set up. Is it possible to put your cell phone number on their keys and point it out to them while saying "Call us for emergencies after hours". Or if your quarters is an obvious place to find you, and guests will come there regardless, I'd think a note on your door similar to "Office hours are 6 AM - 10 PM. Please phone us after hours for emergencies only."
Geez. It is ridiculous some of the crap we put up with!
 
No because I am usually up after they are long asleep.
Tonight it was to finish my Minutes for Council. Last week's guests were here so much and talked so much it was impossible to do them. I need no interruptions (of course DH does not think that includes him) so it is hard to do them during the day.
 
We put our skype phone out and a small blackboard which says 'for assisstance please call this number'. It worked a charm last week as at breakfast a guy said "i tried calling you last night at 11.30 to tell you the internet had stopped working, but the phone was not work".
Tooshay, some things look after themselves!
 
We have a door bell in the room where we do check-ins. For any reason you need us to please ring us. After 9 years, maybe twice it rang. I guess we are very fortunate. We are very thorough and explain where things and how things work.
 
No, we're usually up well past the guests. On the odd occasion that someone is going to be back late we just tell them to lock the front door behind them. DH usually hears them come in and gets up to check the door and turn off any lights.
 
Innkeepers: Do you give out benadryl?
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Innkeepers: Do you give out benadryl?
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Joey Bloggs said:
Innkeepers: Do you give out benadryl?
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Never EVER - a bottle of aspirin or Ibu may find its way to the dining room table, but I would never ever hand a guest any kind of med, not even an over the counter type. It would be a set up for big problems.
 
Innkeepers: Do you give out benadryl?
(Sorry I scan and I read that first).
Joey Bloggs said:
Innkeepers: Do you give out benadryl?
(Sorry I scan and I read that first)
Nothing. I'll give you a band aid but nothing else. No aspirin. Nothing.
Guests get pretty upset when we say we don't have any pain meds.
 
"Sorry, we do not have medications in the house. There is a 24 hour grocery/all purpose store just 5 minutes away. I'm sure they can help you out with the benadryl. If it's an emergency you should call 911."
We never dispense medication to guests. They get the bed to sleep in (not to take with them) and the breakfast. Anything else they will have to provide for themselves.
 
We pretty much shut down after check-in is complete. We don't put up a sign, we do have a little dingy bell at the front desk, but we're only trained to listen for it between 6 AM-6 PM. We've tried to make the house pretty self-sufficient, if you can read you can probably find what you need. We also state on our website and our confirmation that we do not have 24 hour concierge. For most adults, this works splendidly…for others, it wouldn't matter what kind of set up you have, they'd find a way to be special snowflakes
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We pretty much shut down after check-in is complete. We don't put up a sign, we do have a little dingy bell at the front desk, but we're only trained to listen for it between 6 AM-6 PM. We've tried to make the house pretty self-sufficient, if you can read you can probably find what you need. We also state on our website and our confirmation that we do not have 24 hour concierge. For most adults, this works splendidly…for others, it wouldn't matter what kind of set up you have, they'd find a way to be special snowflakes
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Donald Draper said:
…for others, it wouldn't matter what kind of set up you have, they'd find a way to be special snowflakes
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This got my first smile of the day :D Thanks ♥
 
A point for our pita wedding group. After night 1, one guest took DH aside to tell him the electric fireplace ran for 10 minutes then shut off. They were chilly but found the extra blanket.
That is the type of thing I wouldn't be surprised for a late night call, but they managed.
DH fixed the issue during the day. So for night 2, they should be just fine.
 
No sign. We hope they will not call us after 9 pm unless they have an important issue. It is rare when a guest needs us...usually about a beeping fire alarm. Which reminds me....I'm going to start a new thread for this question about smoke alarms.
 
Didn't have a sign, but when I took guests to their room I pointed out our room books which had a ton of info. The books were displayed prominently and were open to the welcome letter. I reinforced that my cell phone number was there for emergencies or room issues. Seemed to work for me...
 
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