I wanted to show you the response of my host after he
- aproved my request
- ask for more money (1500 to 6500 euros!!)
- ask me to cancel the booking
When I tell him I won't cancel but he's free to do so, he writes me the following:
I’m just letting you know. I will not cancel , and the apartment won’t be available for you. It’s up to you.
I spent an hour on the phone with Airbnb today talking about this ongoing issue. If you look at different properties, you will see no property like this one would cost anywhere near what you were hoping to pay.
Airbnb does give me the option to choose the right price for each day. But this is a package price, which means, what if someone wants to come on the 25th and leave on the 1st, and let’s say I changed the price to reflect 28 thousand 5 hundred as 4 thousand a day for example. It still wouldn’t be accurate. So there is no mistake here. You perhaps didn’t grasp the exact predicament here. But I did go the distance to ask Airbnb to write you and let you know you you won’t be penalized in any shape or form. But you have until June 17th I don’t know what time to do so. After that there will be pantries.
I’m not gonna cancel because on my end, I have only 3 instances where I can cancel due to issues with the apartment per year, and I don’t want to blow it with your cancelation just because you think you should be paying the amount that appears to you. If you look at the description you will see I mentioned under Overview about Carnival and New Years being a different rate.
I really hope you understand I’m not trying to be difficult or anything and I can appreciate the efforts you have been putting in finding the right place.
Once it’s all canceled, you will learn you won’t find any price near what you instant booked for.
I really hope you consider this, if not, I’m here to tell you, the place will not be available for you on December 27th regardless and I can’t use 1 of 3 cancellations I have per year just because you might feel entitled to stay at our place for 1/5 of the cost when you never reached out to discuss pricing considering it’s the new year. And I know you know that, because if you book my place, you know these are not the ongoing rate for an apartment on the beach like that.
Best of Luck