Will start listing here all the bad hosts I encounter all over the world.
I’m well-travelled and tolerant of varying degrees of hospitality around the world. What I won’t tolerate is completely unacceptable business ethics. I hope you never have to deal with them.
Will keep adding to this list over time.
Germany
SCAM HOTEL! You have been warned. Booked a 3-week stay here on AirBnB (over a month ahead of time). And even asked them a question about the property. All I got was multiple automated messages saying they were too busy to answer emails on time. They also asked you not to send any more contact requests.
On the morning of the day I arrive, I woke up to see a price-change request from the AirBnB host wanting $800 more. But the AirBnB offer said that if I rejected the price request, the reservation would stay the same. So I rejected it.
When I got off the plane, someone from the property wrote back to me saying the price was mistakenly set too low. And since I refused their last-minute pricing adjustment, the reservation is cancelled and no longer available to me. They took zero responsibility for their mistake, zero discounts or comopromises, or anything to help me out last minute. You’d think this shitty experience ends here but no…
They did NOT cancel the reservation. And since it’s not cancelled, my money was not refunded for me to book another place. Now if I try to cancel it myself, then I don’t get a full refund. Now you see the problem. I had to contact AirBnB and wait a whole 12 hours for AirBnB to manually cancel and refund me.
I went through to the hassle of having to book another place extremely last minute (11pm after arriving from long flights). Never again.
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