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How would you handle this frustrating situation?

Asked by WillWorkForChocolate (23163points) November 15th, 2010

My family rented a cabin in Oklahoma this past weekend, for the annual Fall Festival. The cabin goes for $120 a night, but it sleeps 4–8 people, so the price sounded reasonable enough. BUT… when we got there, we had to spend an hour and a half killing wasps and yellowjackets, and almost got stung a few times. Even after all that killing, we were stilling killing more, here and there, for the remainder of our stay. That’s the first problem.

Then we pulled out the sofa bed to get it ready for bed. There were roach droppings on the mattress pad. There were also no sheets to put on the sofa bed, even though I had been assured there were plenty of linens in the cabin.

There were also no trash bags and no dish soap to clean the cabin dishes. No cleaning supplies at all, and no way at all to clean out the fireplace we used. There were only three forks, two spoons, and two butter knives, which promptly fell apart. She knew there would be 6 of us there. And we had been assured the cabin was stocked with everything we could possibly need.

It was very frustrating to have rented a cabin that was dirty and horribly undersupplied.

We’ve requested to have one night of the bill taken off as compensation. What would you do? Would you request half off like we did? Would you grin and bear it? Would you request a free weekend in the future or flat out refuse to ever stay there again?

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