I have taken on the role of ‘hotel manager for lost souls’ on several occasions... Usually, by the time it gets to the point I consider offering, I have been with the poor passenger for well over 4 hours, in dense fog, with other idiots shouting and screaming at me... and he is the one person who has bought you a coffee and commented on how he does not know HOW I do my job... I remember on one occasion when LHR was closed due fog a particularly nasty New Yorker shouted at me from the middle of the crowd of 20 or so stranded pax, “I don’t give a flying f**k about the fog, get me to New York god-dammit”. Without so much as a breath I just looked up and said in my best british…, “I regret to inform you sir, that at this point in time your ‘f**k’ isn’t going to be flying anywhere… now then, who’s next…” Naughty, I know but it felt so good and resulted in a cheer from the other 19 passengers! -Legal waiver here… the above is not endorsed I know, I know…

Anyway, back to the topic … By this time in the proceedings I hope I will have seen through any Hannibal Lecter characteristics in the forlorn, lonely travelling (or not as the case may be) public and am so tired, as they are, that all I, and they want is a bed! I have had positive outcomes and keep in touch with one or two previous impromptu house guests!

As for vacationing with other non-revers... I'd have no problem, so long as I KNOW that the house I would be staying in was up to my (rather particular and exacting) standards! I am afraid I could not last two minutes in an unkempt or less than clean house!! Don't I sound like the precious one!!!!