Up there someone mentioned a hypothetical boat as part of the advert, something like "waterside property with jetty and boat"
At the time of booking, weeks before arriving, I'd think that use of the boat was included. If the host contacted me 24hrs before arrival saying a can of petrol was 50GBP and mooring changes were 20GBP/week and this would be charged on top of the booking then either I wouldn't be using the boat or I'd complain as per the OP. Or both. It's not difficult to be clear in an advert.
This is why if possible I avoid AirBnb with their add-ons and prefer Booking.com with their simple end price. AirBnb is the Ryanair of holiday rentals IMHO.
Assume heating with a 1kW heat pump running for 24h and 20€ cents/kWh of cheap Canary island leccy and you have the grand total of 5€ a day.
I detested Lanzarote as much as I love Northern Spain.
In Northern Spain I feel welcome and that my custom is appreciated. In Lanzarote every one I encountered was trying to rip me off. From the bus driver who demanded an extortionate back hander in cash to carry our bikes in boxes - the transport was inclused in the price of triathlon training camp. Long argument in Spanish, I rode off on my bike (the others called cheaper taxis) but not before I'd found grease from the engine to smear down the bus whilst inviting him to call the police . The pool wasn't heated, filthy, not enough guests was the claim. The place was sandy,, dusty, in need of renovation. Happily the place had a kitchen so we could go to the supermarket with clearly marked prices and self cater rather than frequent the fish and chips English pub shit hole grease ball warmed up food selling places. Windy, dusty, lousy drivers. Never again.
I understand the lack of enthusiasm of local workers. Lousy pay and conditions serving conspicuously rich tourists and hateful bosses.
But I don't want to be a part of that when I can travel in real Spain in small family run hotels, proper B and Bs (direct or with booking.com, never airbnb), eating in restaurants the locals use and sharing the roads with considerate drivers. And no flying needed.
Up there someone mentioned a hypothetical boat as part of the advert, something like "waterside property with jetty and boat"
I mentioned the boat......but what you've written there is not the scenario I made up and wrote - you've just made up a different scenario.
I once got a complain from a family that my pool guy came into the garden to do his bi-weekly pool maintenence... apparently it startled them... I mean c'mon, swimmin pools don't keep themselves clean.. I don't know what these people think, sometimes, the magical pool fairy visits when they are all asleep, like santa clause? lol!
Friends of ours were at thier rural holiday cottage when the owner popped round like a magical pool fairy at 8.30am one morning to pop chemicals in the hot tub. Unfortunately this meant that the owner startled a naked woman stood looking at the view with her morning cuppa.
So while I agree that maintenance should happen, it's also very easy to put into the instructions 'pool man arrives at 11am on Wednesday' or some such similar, or indeed do the maintenance on changeover day.
I once got a complain from a family that my pool guy came into the garden to do his bi-weekly pool maintenence... apparently it startled them... I mean c'mon, swimmin pools don't keep themselves clean.. I don't know what these people think, sometimes, the magical pool fairy visits when they are all asleep, like santa clause? lol!
Friends of ours were at thier rural holiday cottage when the owner popped round like a magical pool fairy at 8.30am one morning to pop chemicals in the hot tub. Unfortunately this meant that the owner startled a naked woman stood looking at the view with her morning cuppa.
So while I agree that maintenance should happen, it's also very easy to put into the instructions 'pool man arrives at 11am on Wednesday' or some such similar, or indeed do the maintenance on changeover day.
To be fair it was my pool guy who texted me about the incident... To preemptively warn me if they contacted the agency.
So I told the letting agent to make sure there's something added to the welcome pack that people get which is just like a little fact sheet for the property with emergency numbers, dos and donts etc..
Thing is though he usually on time but it's not out of the ordinary for him not to be, but at least it's a reminder to guests that there will be access required.
I guess it was an oversight by the agency. Kinda funny though.
This is why if possible I avoid AirBnb with their add-ons and prefer Booking.com with their simple end price. AirBnb is the Ryanair of holiday rentals IMHO.
That's anecdotes for you. I'd say the opposite. With one exception - the place clearly hadn't been cleaned in forever - I've had nothing but good experiences with AirBnB. Booking dot com on the other hand... random example, one time we arrived in the arse end of France to a hotel which was full and had no record of our booking. They sorted us out in the end, B.C were as much use as tits on a fish.
It's been a few years now since I've used either though, and companies can change for better or worse.
I use a bricks and mortar local estate agent to handle lettings, just seems better for me and they give me a spreadsheet of income/expenses so it makes it nice and easy to work out tax etc. hiccups happen but it is what it is.
Presumably they market through booking.dom etc as well as locally but thats not really my department - they have an in house booking software so its not really possible to double book -I can log into that aswell and see whats booked and when.
