Review and Refund

Trent93
Level 1
Philadelphia, PA

Review and Refund

I attempted to leave a review about this listing **and it has not been published. I am extremely disappointed with Airbnb and highly suggest avoiding them and this listing in particular. We showed up and the front door was wide open. The basement smelled of mold and the toilets were disgusting. 

 

It is extremely unfortunate that Airbnb will not work with the customer. They provide a scripted line that its the policy. Not sure why they would allow a host like this on their site. 

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Sarah977
Level 10
Sayulita, Mexico

@Trent93  Reviews are published 14 days after you receive the notice to review. If the host also leaves a review, the reviews are published as soon as both are submitted. So, 14 days maximum, or sooner if both parties review.

Colleen253
Level 10
Alberta, Canada

@Trent93 Your review is not published until the host leaves a review for you, or after 14 days from check out, if they don't review you. Did the host leave you a review? If so, perhaps what you wrote violated the review policy and Airbnb removed it.

 

https://www.airbnb.ca/help/article/2673/airbnbs-review-policy

 

https://www.airbnb.ca/help/article/13/reviews-for-stays

 

Did you follow the guest refund and cancellation guidelines when you discovered the problems with the listing?

 

https://www.airbnb.ca/help/article/2868/airbnb-guest-refund-policy

 

https://www.airbnb.ca/help/article/544/cancelling-during-your-stay

 

 

 

 

Sarah977
Level 10
Sayulita, Mexico

@Trent93  I see this host has 5 listings, so they are more of a property manager than a hands-on host, and those are the types of listings that one reads the most guest complaints  about.

 

Also, none of the properties they manage have particularly high ratings, and while most of their reviews are quite positive, some do mention issues. So you can't claim you weren't warned.

 

And when you arrive to find a place unacceptable in some way, Airbnb protocol is that you are supposed to first contact the host, to give them an opportunity to correct the issues. It's possible that the cleaner was scheduled to show up that morninng, and unbeknowst to the host, didn't, and would have been mortified that you arrived to find it that way and sent someone over to clean right away, and offered you the first night free, or paid for you to go have a meal somewhere while the cleaning was done. 

 

And if the cleaner neglected to show up, the previous guests could have left the door wide open when they left- happens all the time, and I can assure you no host would be okay with that and certainly wouldn't be happy to know the place was left unsecured.

 

So quite honestly , if it was just dirty, that's something the host may have been responsible for, but that the door had been left open makes it sound like this was all some situation the host wasn't even aware of.

 

You have to give hosts a chance to make things right, not just assume they are terrible hosts who don't care about their properties or their guests.