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My Guest Of The Year
My guest of the year, he taught me a great lesson of kindness and positivity.
Two of my rooms in the basement were booked. They had guests for three nights. Both rooms housed two guests each. The ones in the twin beds room left on their check out date. However, the other pair in the double bed room requested an extension. I agreed to the extension.
Immediately after, that room started to be requested for booking by prospective guests because the extension wasn’t made through the Airbnb App for some technical issues.. It was request after request. I turned down three in a row, and it continued. Then, to the fourth one, I explained that the room that they were requesting was still booked but I could let them stay in my other room. They accepted the offer and they booked that same room.
They checked in to the twin beds room while having booked the double bed room. Yet, the other guest was out until midnight and the one who was in earlier locked a middle door that was supposed to remain always unlocked. Then, the one who asked for extension was left locked out. Right now, as I write this piece, I was communicating with him, and it’s at this time that I learned all about his encounter (being locked out) at night.
So, which one is my best guest of the year and why? It was a surprise to me. The one who was finally accepted, after I…
