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On the other side of the coin, your hotel is unlikely to cancel on you at the last minute (which happened to me recently with an Airbnb). So you are accepting a
by BadCookie 13y ago
On the other side of the coin, your hotel is unlikely to cancel on you at the last minute (which happened to me recently with an Airbnb). So you are accepting a certain level of risk. It's also less convenient to book an Airbnb, especially if you are only staying one night because most hosts have a two night minimum. Mostly, I agree with you, though.
- Aloisius 13y agoA friend of mine recently had the Four Seasons in San Francisco cancel on him. He found out when he arrived. Of course, they had a car waiting to take him to the Hotel Intercontinental and comped him for his troubles, but it does happen.
- mike_esspe 13y agoI had an experience of overbooked hotel too, so I don't think it's a considerable difference.
- tiglionabbit 13y agoI have had hotels cancel on me. Some hotels have a policy that if you don't check in by 2am they will give your room away, and no amount of calling ahead and negotiating will change that.
- ghshephard 13y agoWhile I was attending a training course in 2001 - I arrived at the Doubletree in Richardson, Texas on a sunday night to discover that the room I had booked, and provided my credit card for - was not available to me. Even worse than a cancellation, as now we had to scramble to find another hotel at 11:00 PM on a sunday night (in richardson, texas)
- tomwalker 13y agoI had a hotel cancel on me last month on the day that I arrived. I found at when I arrived at the destination airport