I finalized an agreement some weeks ago. Now the guests are asking to bring additional guests. This makes me uncomfortable. Does anyone have experience with this?
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I don’t have experience with guests asking to bring other persons after the swap is finalised, but I do as a host and a guest have experience in talking about not being certain about how many people will come, and if they/we are okay with that. For example, we agreed in a swap with a family for this summer a long time ago. Beacuse thise year, my husband and I will be married for 25 years, we wanted to bring our children and their partners. At that moment, only one of them had a partner and I asked if it would be okay if the other would bring a partner too, if they got one in the meantime. They haven’t, but if they had, they would have been welcome. It’s very nice if hosts are flexible with such things.
The other family wasn’t sure wether the parents of one of them would come and how long. We kept that open, too.
If I had the room and people asked nicely and explained which persons they were taking, it would be fine with me if we had the capacity.
Yes this is something that can happen, and personally I have experienced this too. Ultimately the agreement that you have made is for the number of guests agreed to when you finalised the exchange. If you are not comfortable with additional guests in your home then it is completely up to you whether you agree to this or not. After all - this is your home 
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