Visitors When you are visiting someone's home, whether they're your close family, distant relatives, friends or colleagues and even if you're paying to stay in a hotel or to share an apartment, it is important to be a gracious visitor. It could make all the difference between a pleasant stay, or never being invited again. Being polite and considerate to everyone will make your stay as a visitor enjoyable for yourself and your hosts.

Visitors We love to have visitors who come to our house. When they arrive, we take their coat or sweater and put them on the bed, or hang them up. We serve tea or coffee and often little sweet cakes. We want to make our guests feel welcome and comfortable. We tell them we want them to stay as long as they can, and we chat about our children or our families and friends. Sometimes we show them our garden outside, or even play card games with them if they can stay a long time. If they stay too long, we start yawning and say we're getting sleepy, and hope they "get the hint" that they have stayed long enough. It is fun having company (visitors) but we secretly hope they do not stay ALL DAY LONG!