backpackers hostel
Kip & Kaboodle
Kip & Kaboodle
Welcome
to our list of rules we (mistakenly) assumed were totally unnecessary to state.
Hey! Yes - you ... do you know a dumb rule we didn't think of? Email it to us so
we can include it!
| 1 | Please don't put our
electric (plastic) kettle on a burner and attempt to heat the water that
way. It is, by definition, electric and therefore plugs into the wall
and does not require additional heating on an element. In fact, to do so
will cause a fire. And for any Doubting Thomas's out there, we actually
have the proof. |
| 2 | Please share the internet.
While we understand free internet is exciting, it needs to be shared
with everyone in the hostel. |
| 3 | Please use bedding
appropriately. Which is to say, please sleep on top of the bottom sheet,
and under the stop sheet. Even if it is so warm you don't want to use
the quilt, we ask that you refrain from just sleeping on top of
everything. (haha - use bedding appropriately. That just sounds funny to
me.) |
| 4 | Please don't sneak out to
your car late at night and bring your own personal bedding (sleeping
bags, pillows, sheets, blankets, stuffies, etc.) back into the hostel
after we have already asked you to keep it out of the hostel. We do not
allow any personal bedding in the hostel, and it is for your protection
as much as ours. Personal bedding carries tics, fleas, spiders and the
infamous bedbug. Not your's specifically, of course. Someone else's...
buddy over there in the next bed. But if we let them have their gear in
the hostel, all those things might climb into your gear (and our beds)
and then they'd be there too, despite how clean and tidy you obviously
are. And we can't really have special rules just for you, it's just not
fair. So we can't let anyone at all bring their bedding in. Even you.
Sorry. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Please don't leave soggy,
wet clothes or towels lying on top of your bed .. whether or not you
plan to sleep there again tonight. Surprisingly, doing so tends to leave
the bedding and mattress soggy & wet. |
| 6(b) | Please also don't hang soggy, wet clothes on other people's beds - use your own. And if your soggy, wet clothes start dripping onto the floor, then they need to be wrung out again. There are clothes lines outside, so you could always hang them there. |
| 6(c) | Please also don't lay
soggy, wet clothes or towels or shoes directly on the heaters and turn
them way up. There's a number of reasons for this - can you think of
one? Here, I'll give you some hints: severe fire hazard; severe stink
hazard; severe waste of electricity. I'm sure there are more reasons ... |
| 7 | Please let us know if you
spill something gooey & sticky all over the bedroom floor. Gooey, sticky
messes are often a lot easier to clean up when they're fresh! I might be
a mum, but I promise not to put you in time out if you spill something. |
| 8 | Please turn off the
lights/fan/heat/computer/radio when you leave. Forget about what it
costs, it's also a waste of electricity which is bad for the
environment. |
| 9 | The little slanted drain
bit of the dish rack goes over the sink -- this is so the water
drips from the dishes, onto the tray and into the sink (and not all over
the counter or onto the floor). We actually leave it set up correctly,
so if you just don't move it, then it will work properly. |
| 10 | Please sort garbage as
clearly labelled. For example, where it says "PLEASE: ABSOLUTELY NO
FOOD" don't read that as "place food here"... or where it says "FOOD
ONLY" don't put plastic, or indeed, anything but food. It's all fairly
straight-forward -- our kids (all under 10) can sort garbage
appropriately. ..oh, and this isn't actually our rule - it's a
provincial rule. We recycle our garbage in Nova Scotia. It might add 30
seconds onto your daily allotment of throwing-out-garbage time, but it's
30 seconds well spent. Future generations will thank you for it .. as
will I, when I am NOT having to re-sort all of your garbage to avoid the
exorbitant fines we are charge for mis-sorted garbage. |
| 11. | Please don't try to check
in before lunch: We haven't finished cleaning yet. And while we're on
the subject, please don't check out at 6pm. Please. We understand the
need to sleep in (people can't seem to help themselves here: it's so
quiet, and our beds are so large & comfy!) but really, if you're
checking out today please check out by 10am at the very, very latest.
Check in is 4pm or later; check out is 10am or earlier (oops - am I
repeating myself?). |
| 12. | It's really not okay to
tell us in the morning that you aren't sure if you're coming back that
night or not. We need to know so we can clean the rooms, change the
beds, and get ready for any new people who might be coming in. |
| 13. | No, we won't look after
your luggage all day and then drive it out to the bus stop at night when
the bus shows up. You can, of course, leave your luggage here all day
and then come back to collect it yourself and take it with you to the
bus stop... you can even make arrangements with Trius Bus (at least 24
hours in advance) to stop at our drive to pick you up -- they have a
'flag stop' in Maders Cove. We can also take you to the bus stop with
your luggage in the a.m. and you can ask the business at the bus stop to
look after your luggage all day, which they are normally quite happy to
do. |
| 14. | Please don't cancel your
reservation at dinner time, then drive up the driveway after midnight,
sneak quietly into the hostel, spend the night, rise early in the
morning, coast down the driveway and then drive away without paying. We
are late to bed and early to rise. Chances are we'll see you and assume
(mistakenly or not) that you are trying to stay in the hostel without
paying ..... that's just a silly little thing we'd appreciate people not
doing and we will take offence at if you try to do so. |
| 16. | The hostel is no smoking.
That means no smoking. Not even in the bathroom. Not even in the
bathroom with the fan on. Not even in the bathroom with the fan on and
all the doors & windows standing open. And, just to be clear, it's no
smoking anything at all. Including all illegal substances. Smoking
anything whatsoever is not permitted anywhere at all inside the hostel. |
| 17. | Please, please oh pleasey-please-please don't leave your toenail or fingernail clippings on the floor. Seriously - it's just plain gross. |
| 18. | If you have stayed with us for more than a few nights, it would be really incredibly nice if you didn't get offended when we ask you to pay. I know our hostel is awesome, and it feels just like home - we really are that relaxed around here. But however much it might feel like home, it's a backpacker hostel, and sadly you need to pay to stay here. It's not personal, it's just how we do things around here. I'm pretty sure all the licensed accommodations operate on the same premise: you stay, you pay. Weird, right? If you wanted to plant us a money tree which we can harvest to pay our exorbitant bills, we'll happily accept it and let you stay for nothing. |
| 19. | If for any reason you are unhappy with something, please let us know. If for any reason you are incredibly happy about something, please let us know that too. If you feel outlandishly neutral about anything you can tell us that as well. If something's gone wrong we won't know unless you tell us; if something is amazing we can't ensure it continues unless we know about it; if something is neutral we'd like to work on that and see if we can't bring it up into the stupendous range. |
| © Kiwi Kaboodle/Kip & Kaboodle 2000 - 2011 |
The last time I managed to
find time to |
info@kiwikaboodle.com |
Our backpacker hostel in Lunenburg & Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia can be rented like a cottage! New in 2011, you can rent the whole cottage which sleeps up to 11 people. It's close to both Mahone Bay and Lunenburg, as well as plenty of beaches, trails, museums, art galleries, shops and more.