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Reminder why I don’t use AirBNB’s
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They have AirBnB management companies that people can use to rent their places and those are fucking AWFUL.
I will never use AirBnB again. For my friends birthday, he wanted to go to Hawaii. I booked an AirBnB at the hotel he was at. A week before I was scheduled, the management company contact ed me and said the host cancelled, but not to worry, they had an equivalent room nearby!
So I get there, and their equivalent room was across the island over fifteen miles away (it's Hawaii, so you must travel around the big mountain, not through it). No where near the original. I left and booked at the hotel. I contact AirBnB and their response was "Sucks to be you. We'll ask them to waive the cleaning fee." Like ??? Yes, of fucking course you will? I just stepped in. (Narrator voice: "They did not, in fact, waive the fee") That was it; over $900 down the drain. Should I have validated that the company and I considered "nearby" the same thing? Yes. Should me thinking "nearby" meant the same hotel or a house within walking distance cost me over $900? No.
The idea that these Mom&Pop shops are selling AirBnB isn't strictly true, and AirBnB is incentivized to bend over backwards and fuck over guests in favor of those middlemen management companies since they represent a large chunk of renters.
Because this really annoyed me recounting this, I actually looked at my email history. They DID NOT refund the 'cleaning fee' in full. Instead they offered me $75 off my 'next adventure' This is what AirBnB sent me:
So, I now post this story on every social media I can find when it reference Air BnB. Fuck them.
I feel like a credit card charge back would have been in order here, losing your AirBNB account be damned.
Yeah, I tried. The CC said it was in the AirBnB terms and conditions, which I accepted in using the service, so I had to deal with AirBnB.
Sounds like you need a better credit card provider.
100% charge that shit back if you didn't even partake of the service, let alone getting it. Fuck 'em, not like you'd use that service again after an experience like that.
I've never stayed in an Airbnb and I never will, but I've seen these management companies AirBnB-ing out hotel rooms in Vegas at places like the Rio. It's the same price as going through the actual hotel. You still have to pay the resort fees. You still check in at the front desk.
I literally cannot understand wtf that's about.
I've never stayed in an Airbnb and I never will, but I've seen these management companies AirBnB-ing out hotel rooms in Vegas at places like the Rio. It's the same price as going through the actual hotel. You still have to pay the resort fees. You still check in at the front desk.
I literally cannot understand wtf that's about.