Sitter wants to arrive the night before, have us pick them up, stay with us and have dinner with us

This is certainly not unheard of and on my first ever house-sit in Copenhagen, the home owner offered to collect me from the airport and I did have tea together with the family that evening before they left super early to go on their travels the following morning.

However, I’d certainly never expect any home owner to pick me up from the airport and I believe that is my responsibility to get myself from the airport to the HO’s home.

I’ve actually done 10 overseas sits at this point and 90% of those, I made my own way to the HO’s house. With my most recent sit in Oslo, we’d both arranged that I got to the HO’s house between 7 and 8 pm the night before their departure. We didn’t have dinner together but that gave us ample time - a good couple of hours to go through pet routines and everything that was necessary as the family had a flight at the crack of dawn the next day.

I’ve also had situations where it’s a key under the doormat and I’ve been sent some great little video guidelines to help me get set up. I loved this as I found it easier to grasp often than written instructions.

There are definitely no set rules when it comes to handovers and I’ve had all sorts of different scenarios over the years!

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