thats good to hear, i have left a book, and travel games before when we stayed in florida pines, but pool toys we have left a big whale when we were in corfu, wont buy one again, but we did have to leave our humungus rubber ring, (well it fitted my bum in it) couldnt get another thing in the cases!!
very disappointed with walmarts choice of swimming/pool toys!! only had goggles and 1 type of rubber ring!! most boring, but did find some bits and bobs for the pool in the 99cent store
Liesa
WE too get all sorts of things left at the villa. Additional books, games, pool toys. It is lovely for other guests and I always thank guests when they tell me.[msnsmile2]
Liesa it's lovely when guests leave things behind for others to use, especially pool toys, because as you've found, depending on the time of year, you don't always get a brilliant selection in some of the stores.[msnsmile2][msnsmile2]
Carla
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but do any of you villa owners mind if we leave bits and pieces behind such as pool toys etc????
have never thought to ask before just did it, but if you have so many guests doing that during the year you will be snowed under with them?
hope nobody minds me asking???
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We too don't mind our guests leaving things, its quite nice to find little extras like pool toys, books and games. One of our guests left a PS2 game too, as they realised it wouldn't work on their PS2 at hone.[msnsmile2]
Sarah
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He's still there Mach 2 and is a favourite with other guests too!!
He's huge and I have to admit that last December I let the air out of him (no mean feat in itself!!) and put him around the side of the house, because we were having a new virtual tour done and I didn't want him "starring" in it. Low and behold he was back perched on the hot tub when I went out in May. [msnsmile2][msnsmile2][msnsmile2]
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Ah thats nice to know Carla, he was $9.99 from Walmart and we bought him back in 1998! Glad to know he is still going strong[msnwink]
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For example, we have a small book exchange thing going on at our 3 bed where you can take any book as long as you leave one in it's place and it's lovely to see a new collection of books each time we go [msnsmile].
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by LiesaAnna
but do any of you villa owners mind if we leave bits and pieces behind such as pool toys etc????
have never thought to ask before just did it, but if you have so many guests doing that during the year you will be snowed under with them?
hope nobody minds me asking???
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We are encouraging this as well John and being a bit of a bookworm, it's one of my favourite bits, seeing the books that other people have left behind[msnsmile2]
Liz
We also provide a load of books, CDs DVDs games etc and encourage exchange. Our repeat guests love this, and they often deliberately bring more books for our home the next time they come.
We also provide inflatable chairs for the pool for the summer. Most of the other pool toys don't last for very long as they get well used.
We have never visited our villa twice and found the same selection of books and toys. It makes it more exciting for us wondering what we will find.
Our funniest find to date was a pumpkin lantern. We found a plastic bag in the garage where we keep our Christmas decorations (so perhaps should have guessed to start with) but when Stuart looked to see what was in the bag it looked like a mouldy pumpkin. We thought yuk could the guests or cleaners not have binned rather than leave it to go mouldy. We then realised it was not soft but hard and found this wonderfully realistic mouldy pumpkin face with a light inside. We had a good laugh and have left it for our current guests to use come the witching hour later this month
they have some truely amazing pumpkins and all sorts of halloween things........if we were there over halloween i would love it, people decorate there gardens!!!!
lots of fun to be had!!!
Liesa
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