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I think my Airbnb guests were strippers and now I have a glitter problem

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I think my Airbnb guests were strippers and now I have a glitter problem

I have been an Airbnb host for about six years, and I thought I had seen everything. I was wrong.

I recently accepted a three-night booking from three young women. They looked perfectly normal on their profile. Nothing unusual. The messages were polite, check-in was smooth, and I did not give them a second thought.

The first sign that something odd was happening came from the neighbour. She asked me, in that half-concerned and half-nosy tone that older neighbours do so well, whether I knew the guests were “working nights”. I asked what she meant. She said she had seen them leaving the property at around eleven o’clock, wearing full evening wear. Not the sort of outfits anyone wears to go to Tesco.

I brushed it off at the time. Some people go out clubbing midweek. It is not my business.

The second sign came from my cleaner. She sent me a voice note the following morning, saying she could not get inside because “they are still getting ready for work”. At that point, I thought my neighbour must have misinterpreted something, because who gets ready for work at half eleven in the morning after coming home at four?

Then the third sign arrived, and this is the one that made everything click. One of the guests messaged me asking if I had any spare full-length mirrors because they “needed them for rehearsals”. I told them I did not. They said not to worry, they would improvise.

By now, I had built a fairly accurate picture of what they were doing, but they were tidy, polite and not causing damage, so I convinced myself to leave it alone. If they chose to live that way, that was their business.

The real problem happened after they checked out.

My cleaner rang me, sounding exasperated. She said the place was spotless except for one thing. She said the carpet looked like someone had exploded a craft shop inside the living room. I went over to see it myself. She was not exaggerating. There was glitter everywhere. Embedded in the carpet, stuck to the curtains, wedged in the skirting boards.

I vacuumed, she vacuumed, we tried sticky rollers, we tried a carpet brush, we tried duct tape. It barely made a dent. Every time we thought we had cleared it, we walked across the carpet and our shoes lit up like disco balls.

I cannot list the property again until it is resolved.

My question: Is there any vacuum cleaner on earth that actually removes glitter from carpet, or am I looking at a full replacement?

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