MP was in London for a few days over Easter. She rented an apartment in Islington through Airbnb on a great street, just minutes away from some of my favourite London shops, bars, pubs and restaurants. The apartment had great potential - but was let down by the fact it was missing many of the items that we would consider essential.
It seemed that the rental was geared more towards groups of students rather than families or older groups of people - for example they had about four spare camp style beds stored in one of the bedrooms and they had a set of shot glasses. They were lacking any wine glasses, a sufficient number of water glasses and any tea towels. The bath towels provided were rather threadbare and they didn't supply any additional hand towels or bathmats. The bedlinen was purple and brown and MP reported that the beds themselves were rather lumpy.
To me, it seems such a shame that the owner hasn't been willing to spend just a little bit of money and time to improve the overall experience of staying at their property.
When MP first arrived at the property she also opened up all of the windows to try and get rid of the damp, musty smell that was in the bedrooms. It doesn't really matter how clean a place might be, if it smells bad, it feels dirty.
The holiday rental essential that I am recommending for this week is a cleaner. After each lot of guests have departed it is essential that a holiday rental is thoroughly cleaned and aired out. Any missing or broken glasses or crockery should be replaced.
At the property we stayed in last year in Ibiza we had a cleaner come mid-week and replace the towels and bedlinen - I think this is also a great service to offer.
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