Guest wants refund for cancellation

Ronnie19
Level 2
St Kilda, Australia

Guest wants refund for cancellation

I had a guest who booked the place for 30 days. She arrived today and sent me a message saying she doesn’t like the place, and has gone to a hotel instead and has asked politely if I could refund her.

 

We average 4.9 stars and have over 90

reviews.

 

Nevertheless it’s not what she was looking for.

 

Options:

 

1. who cares - it’s her problem.

 

2. Get her to cancel the reservation - this will open the airbnb and if I find someone else I could offer her a partial refund. 

 

What would you do? What do hotels do?

 

One month is a lot of money - I feel bad for her. 

 

option two seems like the right decent thing to do but the hassle of doing all this is just annoying. This is why I set my policy as moderate so i wouldn’t have to deal with this kind of stuff!!

 

 

 

 

1 Reply 1
Emiel1
Level 10
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

@Ronnie19 

A 30 nights reservation has the "long term cancellation policy " attached automaticaly.

The guests need to cancel the reservation asap, to make the dates available again.

But there is now refund according the cancellation policy, unless you give one manually. Which is your decision. to do so. You could also wait to see if dates will be rebooked full or partial.

Best regards,

Emiel

 

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