Limit on number of nights or weekends someone can stay in a B and B. Is this seriously a thing????

gotz

Only giving that these places are in Dublin. Couple of which I've had the experience of. No problem by the way with any of their services. Not the issue

I do go on weekend and sometimes midweek breaks to various places mostly to Dublin and always look and get the best deals.

Maybe this has irked 1 or 2 places and now they are saying to me that there is a limit put on number of stays a person can have with them.

That it's a management choice after. I can't be bothered asking.

10 night max in a 1 year period. That's barely even a holiday for me

Is this really a thing???

Cuddlesworth

They can choose who can and can't stay in their premises as long as it doesn't violate the discrimination act. The reasons why they would enact such a rule or policy in this case are between you and them.

mikemac2

10 nights in a year sounds just bizarre. If they were smart they could have sales reps and others as regulars passing through.

Maybe it's time to put that VAT rate from 9% to 13.5%, times are not so hard after all

In hostels sure yes I've had the situation when I needed to check out, stay somewhere else for one night and then return and check back in. I believe it was to stop me establishing residency, fair enough.

looksee

always look and get the best deals.

Maybe this has irked 1 or 2 places

Why would this cause issues? How do they know you have been checking round, and what if you have? Why would they be irked?

Strumms

It’s common…

just checked Jury’s Inn in Galway and it’s maximum 21 nights per stay, same with Gresham in Dublin, so hotels must have freedoms to limit it.

gotz

To get customers in that make them more money?

High season and all that.

Anyway all I do is check in and check out. All paid for in advance.

No point looking at me. It's their rule not my

mikemac2

Checking rates was even more common in the past. When I went to college in Galway fado fado and had not sorted accommodation you went to the B & B´s and negoitated rates on the doorstep. Oh it's 6pm and the room not filled? Well here I am and I doubt you get phone booking at this late hour (said more nicely than this 😊). If it doesn't work out you go to the B & B next door.

B & B´s are businesses and expected it. Nobody was offended.

And when I was a hotel night porter people chanced their arm with me looking for reductions, it's all good.

I guess OP the B & B´s are worried about you becoming a tenant after staying long term. That is the policy decision. They want your business but they do not want you to be a tenant

L1011

10 nights is exceptionally odd - it wouldn't be that uncommon to have 14 night rentals, moreso in seaside places I'd guess.

10 rentals in a year - if there's a good reason to do it at all, limiting it by rentals would make more sense. But its still not a substantial amount. There are/were people who would stay in the same hotel or B&B 20-50 times a year doing a sales territory round or similar.

gotz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119228445#Comment_119228445

Bit more reasonably of them despite their prices

gotz

Just because its summer I reckon. If it was dead season probably wouldn't be a word said.

If I'm staying odd days or groupings of days, then I'm seen to be taking a chunk of someone else's holiday.

All I can think of

Strumms

also in a hotel, it’s not someone’s home. There are a plethora of staff.

a B&B the owners generally live there too. If there was a client(s) who as a B&B owner you didn’t like, didn’t feel comfortable around, you are shut of them after x days… you hate Mr & Mrs Dempsey… they are a pair of head wreckers and not too polite…you have to serve them food a couple of times a day, you have to make small talk, bump into them, answer their questions, exclusively you really…. Got to have the opportunity to get shut of them.. doesn’t matter in a hotel.