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

gotz · 20-06-2022 08:01PM #1

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 · 20-06-2022 08:05PM

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 · 20-06-2022 08:26PM

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 · 20-06-2022 08:32PM

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 · 20-06-2022 08:41PM

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 · 20-06-2022 08:42PM

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 · 20-06-2022 08:45PM

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 · 20-06-2022 08:45PM

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 · 20-06-2022 08:46PM

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

Bit more reasonably of them despite their prices

gotz · 20-06-2022 08:50PM

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 · 20-06-2022 09:13PM

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.

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

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