Guest could’ve burned my cabin down
I’m struggling with whether or not to go all in on letting this guest have it. I can’t post the pictures in here it seems but she took our blow dryer, plugged it in, put it in the bed under the covers and turned it on like it was a personal bed heater. It was still in the bed when I came to collect the linens. In addition to this, she was really needy and annoying but I generally take that with a grain of salt. She followed none of our checkout instructions and even left our gate unlocked. Where do I draw the line here?? Should I light her up?
Edit/additional info: when I say “light her up” I am being hyperbolic. I’m not going to ruin her life. 2-3 star review.
Many people are saying I can’t prove that’s what she used the blow dryer for and admittedly this is true. I messaged her the following: “Aloha ****, I hope you had a safe trip to your next destination! I just wanted to ask because I noticed the blow dryer in the bed, were you cold at night?” We’ll see what she says.
People saying I’m obviously irresponsible for not having heating: we’re in Hawaii. Nobody has heating here unless they live at a super high elevation and our cabin is at about 1500 ft. We provide extra blankets and mention that in both our welcome letter and our listing info, neither of which she read.
EDIT AGAIN: actually, I basically CAN prove it’s what she was doing! We have remote monitoring for our off grid solar setup that tracks energy usage, and when guests go to bed, it drops to basically nothing. This guest had random spikes in energy usage of 1200 watts at a time scattered throughout the night. Unless she was using the electric kettle at random times all night, she was running the blow dryer.