Please:
Take your shoes off! Especially in the winter! A universal complaint.
Don't scatter your socks around!
Take a few lessons on how to use the toilet. A particularly sore point. Will
someone tell me how even women managed to leave their fluids all over?!
Show up when expected.
Practice your negotiating ability elsewhere. Why the cheaper the offer the more
likely prospective guests are to bargain?! And the more of a deal they get the
more they shit around?! I have no choice but to urge hosts on this list not to
give discounts.
Take out your garbage!
Don't visit porn sites with viruses from the host's computer you are allowed to
use. If you can't live without your daily fix go to to a specialized establishment that at the staff and resource to
clean after you.
Absolutely no pocketing things! Usually missing items are noticed after western
travellers invite their Russian friends. No local friends, especially
girlfriends! Russia has a huge underclass. Chances are your average off the
street acquaintance is not at all the sort your host wants to see. I lost two
cell phones that way, one good new external HD, and several souvenirs from my
great grandparents' days.
Don't change computer settings if you can't put it all back. I had to install a
password on my computer - and locking things is not at all my style. But before
the passwork was installed the system would need to be re-installed every 3-4 guests.
Don't change TV settings if you can't put it all back as it was. I would like to
take the opportunity to relay thanks to some
sort of an "English teacher" who activated porn channels to kids'
delight.
Don't send 5mb pictures of yours. Just happened last night. 5 copies! Received
at my dacha via GPRS!
Anybody remembers the $10/night bomb shelter on the canal, within easy walking
distance to Red Square? The one run by Katherine? The project was discontinued
because of the quality of clients. Otherwise it could have worked! And then I
hear complaints that Moscow is expensive. Want it cheap? Don't waste resources.
That's what prompted me to re-activate this page. Received Nov. 10 2011 from Alla. More pictures coming up from the same host. The less they pay the more crap they generate.
How could that have happened?! Although the client covered the cost of the chair, a trip to the store took a total 6 person-hours. And one of these was I, used in the capacity of consultant, driver, and chair assembler. From Alexandra. November 8 2011.