Comments on: Was My Host Just Plain Nuts? A Guest Ponders After Bad Review.

By: Mara

Mara — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 21:37:36 +0000

Yeah, I don’t understand why these comments are so negative. The host and the place sound terrible, and at $28 a night it can’t be the best place. I would have liked to see the full review. I’ve stayed at 30 AirBnbs without an issue and I’ve never left reviews even of the worst places, but for the first time today a host refused to rent to me because they require things to be extremely tidy, as they said, and someone hinted I didn’t clean their room enough (wonder what I pay $100 cleaning fees for then). The host even asked all tenants to give them a $200 security deposit. Maybe I’ll revisit the idea of staying in real bed & breakfasts, or hotels.
There is something to be said for doing business with professionals rather than amateurs.

By: emmy

emmy — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 03:45:27 +0000

Hahaha, you poor thing. You took the time to write your complaint about the host berating you and the commenters are all stating you’re in the wrong.

I don’t know. I just think that’s funny. Flexible check-out time sounds like flexible check-out time to me. As a host, you can pick a time to have them check out, or you can leave it blank, which means flexible.

I do think you should have communicated with her about how long you would stay in her house that day while working on stuff, and you could have told her what time your flight is and that being the reason for your lingering ahead of time.

Sounds like normal passive aggressive behavior from her, leaving you a bad review from the safety of the computer screen and letting all the negativity rip, while trying to remain hospitable in person…. Bad balance, for sure.

I just moved and am about to host. I’m nervous, especially since AirBnb’s “smart pricing” has low-balled me by a good 30-50$ for peak ski-season weekend pricing. hmpf!`

By: Nellie

Nellie — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 17:03:59 +0000

A flexible checkout according to Airbnb is 11.00.

You didn’t check out at 11.00 a.m. You still were using her home you admit a full 6 hours later. And as you admit did so, because you felt you could get away with it as you thought they were at work.

Sitting at her dining room doing your emails when her new guests arrived is not on.

I would have been upset too. It wasn’t until 3 pm. that you notified her that you were still there and asked for a lift to the airport. Hosts are not a taxi service and perhaps they felt uncomfortable about declining your request.

On average Airbnb contacts guests at least four times encouraging them to leave a review and I am sure you read reviews of the hosts home before you stayed so a little disengenuos to say you didn’t know about the system.

If the hosts place was as awful as you say, why didn’t you do what Airbnb suggests and contact them within 24 hours of arrival to outline how it wasn’t as described and ask to cancel and get a refund. Rather than moaning about the state of the place after staying there for the whole period of your stay.

You sound entitled to me.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:43:00 +0000

Just, wow … I am an occasional guest at different AirBNBs and reading your tale makes me glad I’m not a host! Based entirely on your own telling of the story, you are totally in the wrong. Your host must have the patience of a Saint! You clearly lack life skills and social awareness, so my recommendation is that you not travel at all.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:51:52 +0000

Totally siding with the host! Indeed, many hosts have full-time jobs and you were requiring full-time attention ‘quietly sitting at THEIR dining table’. Yeah right, stay in a hotel and book an Uber next time.