Yeah, all you need is one shady AirBNB experience to forever turn you off to the idea. I had a horrible one in 2018 and haven’t stayed at one since.
I agree with other posters—I’ve had some better experiences using similar services to rent like entire villas for large work groups, but other than that I don’t think it’s worth it.
Pay for early check in, show up, get ghosted by the host for two hours.
Receive a text—“Go to this Starbucks and await further instructions”
Get texted a 20 page pdf full of crazy shit including a line “If someone comes knocking on the door in the middle of the night asking for Chris tell them that you leased the apartment two months ago because he stopped paying and no one has seen him.” PDF includes GPS coordinates to a telephone pole with a master lock lock box on it that contains the keys to the place.
Arrive at the condo and it’s—I’m 100% not kidding—FILLED WITH SAD CLOWN ART. It was literally all pictures and statues of sad clown shit with an added touch of Jewish devotional stuff.
Go to a conference the next day and return to all of my shit moved around.
Literal horror story. Never again.
EDIT: Preemptively I was poor at the time and it was for a work conference that had already been reimbursed. I should’ve contacted AirBNB. But I was young, dumb, and wanted to advance at my place of work.
Yeah, all you need is one shady AirBNB experience to forever turn you off to the idea. I had a horrible one in 2018 and haven’t stayed at one since.
I agree with other posters—I’ve had some better experiences using similar services to rent like entire villas for large work groups, but other than that I don’t think it’s worth it.
You can’t just say that and not tell the story!
Oh god, where to start.
Pay for early check in, show up, get ghosted by the host for two hours.
Receive a text—“Go to this Starbucks and await further instructions”
Get texted a 20 page pdf full of crazy shit including a line “If someone comes knocking on the door in the middle of the night asking for Chris tell them that you leased the apartment two months ago because he stopped paying and no one has seen him.” PDF includes GPS coordinates to a telephone pole with a master lock lock box on it that contains the keys to the place.
Arrive at the condo and it’s—I’m 100% not kidding—FILLED WITH SAD CLOWN ART. It was literally all pictures and statues of sad clown shit with an added touch of Jewish devotional stuff.
Go to a conference the next day and return to all of my shit moved around.
Literal horror story. Never again.
EDIT: Preemptively I was poor at the time and it was for a work conference that had already been reimbursed. I should’ve contacted AirBNB. But I was young, dumb, and wanted to advance at my place of work.
Holy shit, flipping horrific nightmare fuel