Having people to stay is great. It means no one has to traipse back to a hotel late in the evening and that everyone can have a drink without worrying who is going to drive back. It can however be a bit of a nightmare if you are not used to hosting people or are generally a 'leave it to the last minute' type. If any of the above sound familiar then this list is your new BFF.
1. Beds/Bedding
Do you have somewhere for these people to stay? If not, can you make somewhere for your guests to stay?
When people are only staying for a night or two most are happy on a sofa bed or airbed if it comes to a push. We have a spare bed, a sofa bed and then a spare mattress if push comes to shove. The next thing to consider though is do you have enough bedding. In this hot weather people may need sheets/blankets rather than a 14 tog duvet, are these clean?
I tend to try and do all my laundry a couple of days before so that I know everything is dry. Top tip, if the bedding is sulking and not quite dry, whip the iron out and give it a once over. Not only will your guests have lovely crisp bedding but it will half the drying time.
2. Food
Your guests will need feeding. It is worth going through each meal of each day and making sure that either you know what you have on offer to give them, or you can plan to get things in. I personally never really have toast for breakfast but I always make sure I have enough bread and a few toppings as it is a lot of peoples breakfast of choice.
Also if you are planning on going out, gather potential options ahead of time so you can present them as ideas without that awkward conversation where no one seems to mind where they go, and will 'just go with the flow'.....so annoying when 'the flow' still haven't made a decision hours later!
3. Activities
What will your guests want to do, does any of this need pre booking/arranging?
4. Evenings
If your not going out for dinner what are you planning on doing in the evenings? Yes sitting around and watching the telly is fine for a usual night in but it's nice to do something different for guests. It doesn't necessarily have to be a night out on the tiles, boardgames can work equally well. Bananagrams is a personal fave which gets everyone involved and avoids the awkward 'sitting round and looking at each other' hours that can occur of an evening.
5. Sunday Night Jobs
Chances are that its been such a busy weekend you've neglected all the usual jobs and forgotten quite what needs to be done for Monday morning. As long as any essential ironing is done and there is stuff for lunches in the week everything else can wait....chances are you'll be knackered and it will be an early night all round.
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