Holiday cottage rental disaster

melb

couldn't be bothered reading every single reply but what i did see seemed to be a case of the usual baa baa baa load of sheep let's all agree with each others crap brigade. Why should anyone put up with mice or rats in their holiday home? If you were staying in a barn on a farm that's a different matter but as the owners live next door they must be well aware of this problem and should have sorted it out. Don't most people have a fruit dish out on theor work surface at home? yeah .. thought so

anxious_mum

I have stayed in countless holiday homes, both in the UK and overseas, and I have NEVER come across even the faintest squeak of a mouse! I wouldn't be too pleased if I knew they were scurrying around the kitchen in the night, and I would be even less pleased to have to look at their little dead bodies in the mornings after their night time raids!

I can think of better things to do on my well earned, hard worked for holiday than dodging mouse droppings! And, who would be responsible for taking the little, broken, furry bodies off and re-setting the traps?

martinthebandit

Interesting posts (some of them) do people really believe that there is a house anywhere in the UK (and probably in the world) that has not had mice in them at some time or other?

The OP just happened to be unlucky that she happened to be there at the same time the mouse was.

What I was trying to point out was that her initial reaction was a little over the top and because of that she was unlikely to get her money back.

anxious_mum

I agree Martinthebandit, I've never seen or heard a mouse but I don't doubt that they prowl around and search the cupboards for biscuits and peanut butter at night when everyone is fast asleep. I also think the OP over reacted, but then again, we're all different. Maybe if the OP's pet had been a !!!!! cat instead of a dog......... :-)

I can't believe I wasn't allowed to type p*ssy! since when was that word outlawed? LOL

dodger1

melb wrote: »

couldn't be bothered reading every single reply but what i did see seemed to be a case of the usual baa baa baa load of sheep let's all agree with each others crap brigade. Why should anyone put up with mice or rats in their holiday home? If you were staying in a barn on a farm that's a different matter but as the owners live next door they must be well aware of this problem and should have sorted it out. Don't most people have a fruit dish out on theor work surface at home? yeah .. thought so

The owners offered to sort the problem out the very day it was reported.

Joanne_c_3

Bla, bla, bla, the owners offered to sort out the problem! My tap wasnt broken, my boiler wasnt on the blink, the fridge didnt stop working, there were mice in the kitchen, mice, why dont all the people who have to put their 2pence in just go and ..... . To all those mice experts I hope they visit real soon, or even if your desperate I know a cottage ready to rent!

pararct

Whatever your opinions on mice one way or the other in the eyes of the law and the reasonableness test the OP probably has not a leg to stand on. Bottom line you upped sticks and crashed out not giving the cottage owner the opportunity to put right the problem.

One of the tests may be was the cottage uninhabitable after the mice were spotted, were they an immediate hazard to health. If a swarm of wasps had managed to get in through a hole in the roof and had built a nest in the living room then it may well deemed reasonable to abandon the cottage given the danger test as I have outlined above.

Try and step back and consider how a judge might view this. He/she would apply the reasonable test, on that basis ask yourself if what you did in abandoning your let was reasonable. If under all the circumstances you feel it was then feel free to pursue legal action.

Joanne_c_3

Let the owner put right the problem, yuk! Catch all the mice, or more like turn my holiday into a mice catching exercise. I cant think of anything more vile than disposing of vermin each morning squashed into traps with their eyes popped out. The bathroom was accessed via the kitchen, the only toilet, didnt fancy having them running over my feet as I passed through or in the bathroom during the night. Anyone who sees this accomodation as a holiday I can easily forward the address, available officially on saturday, your very welcome!

anxious_mum

I'm really sorry your holiday was spoilt Joanne, we save up all year round and expect the best. Then, when something like this happens, it all goes pear shaped and its a huge disappointment. If its any consolation, I've just come back from a week in Greece and there was a damn cricket in my studio ceiling (It was a mezzanine type thing, so the roof was very high). It was so noisy it woke me up every night! I found myself at 3:30am with a mop trying to shoo the bloody thing out of the door. Or squash it, either would've been good. This continued for most of the week, apart from the one night I drank enough retsina for it not to bother me!

I hope your next holiday is better x

Joanne_c_3

Anxious_mum you see we are all so different! I have lived with crickets outside my door in various countries and tuned out from them! But this is all about what can be tolerated, Im sorry that cricket wrecked your sleep whilst on a much needed holiday. But mice I have zero tolerance for..