Self catering apartment damage deposit

stokesley

iB1 wrote: »

I think that is more to do with stag and hen dos rather than single sex couples

Yup. They're known as single-sex parties - been accustomed to the term for so long that I forgot it could be open to misinterpretation:rotfl:.

BitterAndTwisted

Aha! It was the lack of a hyphen which threw me. A single, sex party, a single-sex party or a single sex-party. I'm past the age where a stag or hen would be the first thing that came to mind. Still, if it was a stag or hen do, I would have thought that any chair, rickety or not, would be the last thing on the occupants' minds, but what do I know?

The crisp crumbs on the carpet would have been a sure sign of wanton abandon, I reckon.

stokesley

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Aha! It was the lack of a hyphen which threw me.

You are, of course, quite right.

Mea culpa.

PasturesNew

Single sex parties are the worst. Noisy, drunken, inconsiderate, p1sshead louts; and they often will book somewhere with a few names, then their mates also turn up, so a place for 4 people is holding 8, or a place for 6-7 has 10 in it. These groups will often also wrestle/tussle and muck about in a place, doing daft drunken things and breaking stuff you'd never imagine could be broken. Male parties will also often p1ss the bed, thereby requiring a new mattress to be brought in at short notice.

Cleaning is normal stuff: run a vacuum round, strip the beds, change the towels, wipe down the cooker/fridge and tops and empty the cupboards of leftover food. Check the dishes/pans are clean and give them a little clean if there's a little mess on them. Run a duster over surfaces. Job done in 1-2 hours.

Excessive cleaning is: opening the fridge and finding it full of sand, beer stains/slosh all over the floors/walls/windows, bedlinens stained (lipstick/fancy dress makeup common with stag and hen parties), towels heavily stained because they were taken to the beach and beer was spilt on them then they were used to wipe up some spilt beer on the floor. Finding they cooked a whole Sunday lunch, burnt two pans and never did any washing up at all. Excessive is quite obvious when you encounter it, over the usual cleaning required between lets.

blued

How has this thread spiralled to single-sex parties!? It was not a single-sex party! There was one couple (male and female) and 2 other friends. There wasn't a party.

I'll need to draft a letter to send to the management company. There was no inventory and we arrived after hours so nobody showed us in to the apartment.

G_M

blued wrote: »

How has this thread spiralled to single-sex parties!? It was not a single-sex party! There was one couple (male and female) and 2 other friends. There wasn't a party.

I'll need to draft a letter to send to the management company. There was no inventory and we arrived after hours so nobody showed us in to the apartment.

Homosexuals have rights too! Some of them even like parties!

And though not relevant, out of interest what sex were the 'friends'?

As for the length of your journey I fail to see what possible relevance it could have that it took you 'hours' to get there.....

(or is this another hyphen issue?)

BitterAndTwisted

PasturesNew wrote: »

Noisy, drunken, inconsiderate, p1sshead louts; and they often will book somewhere with a few names, then their mates also turn up, so a place for 4 people is holding 8, or a place for 6-7 has 10 in it.

Oh, OK then I won't mention the twin-bedded hotel-room I booked in the Netherlands where we ended up with seven people sleeping on the floor. We were drunken !!!!-heads but we weren't louts although we did use an awful lot of the hotel's towels. We tidied up after ourselves and left quite a bit of money behind for the chambermaid as well. Oh, happy days!

Thanks for the chuckle G_M!