WWTOTD? Rodents in the AirBnB

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we rented a cabin in North Carolina and in the middle of the night our 12 year old said she saw and heard mice or rats.Then we saw one of the nasty little frickers run through our room into the bathroom then into a closet

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This would be a no go for my wife. She would've already had a new place to stay & working on a refund.

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Is leaving and going somewhere else, asking for a refund for the rest of the trip an a-hole move?

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No. That’s what I’d do.

If the rental was in the mountains of western NC, there's not really much you can do about one or two mice. It's like having a fly in the kitchen at some point. If it was overrun with mice, then yeah, there's a problem that should be identified and dealt with, but a mouse (or maybe two) isn't an infestation.

Any time my wife and I head to NC or TN to spend some time at a mountain cabin my wife takes her five-gallon bucket mouse trap and sets it in the kitchen. It's a trap door lid that sits on a five-gallon bucket. The mice climb up to the top for some crumbs she leaves on it and they fall into the bucket and can't get out. Then wifey takes the bucket outside in the morning and lets the mice free, the mice wander around for a bit then sneak back inside and we go through the entire thing all over again the following night.

We find that if we stay more than a weekend we get to know the mice by name.

In all seriousness, though, there's not much you can do about one or two mice getting into the kitchen late at night in a very rural setting. At least they're not disease-carrying rats that you'll get in urban settings.

No way you can guarantee that a mouse or two won't enter the premises.

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Let the hosts know. They will probably give you a nice discount

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We did and they offered to refund the trip but the kids want to stay so we are and they’re sending terminix out asap. The hosts were mortified and very apologetic. It is a very rural cabin so in the grand scheme of things, it’s understandable a mouse would be able to find its way in

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saw and heard mice

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we rented a cabin

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I mean…. You’re in a cabin in, I assume, the middle of the woods.

What did you expect to find?

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I mean…. You’re in a cabin in, I assume, the middle of the woods. What did you expect to find?

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This. It would be like guaranteeing no cockroaches in the gulf south. It would be impossible. I’ve sprayed my house monthly, put out granular around my house landscaping, and still get the occasional roach.

My father in law had a very nice ski in and ski out townhome (subtle brag I guess Mingo) in Jackson hole and it had occasional mice. The locals are VERY anti poison due to birds of prey eating them and dying.

When I stayed at The Swag in North Carolina we had some ants in our room and some sort of flying bug.

Now an ‘infestation’ is different. But the occasional visitor is normal in many places.

Video the problem and communicate with the owners. I would expect a huge discount. But give them a fair opportunity to correct the problem.

But if they do not credibly correct this, then not posting an honest and negative review is a method of victimizing other people in the future.