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Yep. Had an Airbnb setup this week in Atlanta, looked good, responsive host. We arrived, looked clean and decorated well enough, but had 4 glade plugins for a
by joyeuse6701 4y ago
Yep. Had an Airbnb setup this week in Atlanta, looked good, responsive host.
We arrived, looked clean and decorated well enough, but had 4 glade plugins for a 500sqft place… seemed excessive like their might be a bad smell hidden.
Sat down on a chaise which collapsed because of a leg attached by gum. Found a cockroach under said chaise. Reported it and the owner said it was treated the other day, so it should be fine.
Sat down on the couch, which also collapsed, one leg was missing and was held up by a coffee mug. The bed frame had cinder blocks and children’s notebooks supporting it, (stubbed my toe on the cinder block). Bathroom fixtures were loose, sink basins were not properly seated to their countertops, inviting mold.
In the morning I found 3 more cockroaches roaming around the otherwise clean looking kitchen.
I named one of them Gregor.
Airbnb gave us a refund for the nights unspent and we’ve spent the rest of the time at a brand name hotel. More expensive, but more options for recourse if things go south.
If not for the cockroaches it would have been bearable, but the combination of issues left too many doubts as to the safety of the place. My wife and I could not find rest there.
Airbnbs can be nice and give you a real sense of being a resident of a place, but the quality control truly is a gamble. These days, I increasingly prefer the consistency of a hotel bed.
I will say this, the thermostat was better at the Airbnb than the hotel. No auto feature in the hotel.
- ehecatl42 4y ago> I named one of them Gregor. Not everyday you come across random Kafka references!
- SwiftyBug 4y ago> Airbnbs can be nice and give you a real sense of being a resident of a place I really don't get this. If you're vacationing there's no way you'll feel anywhere near a "sense of being a resident". It's vacations, you're a tourist, there's nothing wrong with that. I don't get what about the "experience" of a regular Airbnb is better than staying at a decent hotel. Of course this does not apply to exotic Airbnbs.
- mewse-hn 4y ago> I really don't get this. The promise of AirBnB used to be you could get a spare room / apartment in a place where the locals actually lived, rather than the hotel & convention center district that's 2 blocks from the airport
- dazc 4y ago> If you're vacationing there's no way you'll feel anywhere near a "sense of being a resident". Some other residents will have broken plumbing, bad smells and cockroaches. You are living as they are?
- joyeuse6701 4y agoTrue, this very much may the common experience of the community I stayed in, but it was not advertised as such, nor was it priced that way either.
- Firmwarrior 4y ago"Roach Infested Hellhole - $30/night" Sold!
- slaw 4y agoHow many stars had that apartment? How many stars you gave in your review? What makes Airbnb not reliable is not cockroaches, but no negative reviews. I prefer Booking, because my reviews even negative are not removed like on Airbnb.
- joyeuse6701 4y ago4.67. We haven’t submitted our review yet, suffice to say Airbnb responded that the offer unit did not meet their standards. Airbnb hides the review score, only giving an average.