It is clear, of course, that she should not have invited a guest without communicating this to the host. However, as she has paid, it is, of course, clear that kicking her out and making her pay nevertheless is an unreasonable response from the part of the host. There are other way to resolve the matter and where the issues lies – as clearly indicated by the guest who wrote this – is whether and how Airbnb is going to solve this situation.

Any reasonable person understands that it must have been very uncomfortable to have been thrown out during the night in a foreign place. Any sensible person also understand that the host has clearly overstepped his rights as an owner, where he kicked the guest out but remained possession over her things, which she was only allowed to collect the next day.

I am sorry for this experience. Unfortunately, as I am sure you know see, you cannot trust the site or hosts and should be very careful when traveling this way, especially in many foreign or less developed locations.

Please do report how this case is being solved by Airbnb! Attach pictures as well.

Good luck!

Fake rule? Not really. It seems your first clue should have been when she went to the effort to take note of names on initial arrival.