Hi,
I guess this is a bit of a special case and I am tempted to just ignore it and do nothing, but are just wondering what other hosts think about this.
People come from different countries, different cultural backgrounds and with different expectations, so I feel it is important to show you are accommodating towards peoples special "needs". Therefore, I always ask my guest to immediately contact me if there is anything they are not happy with. This gives me a chance to change things or stock up on other things, just to try to make my guests stay a good experience.
I recently had someone to come for 10 days and they asked a lot of questions, like information about local hikes that were specially children friendly and so on. Loads of questions. I felt I was being very accommodating searching for loads of this information which took a lot of time, even making a binder with all the information. Of course I never verified this information as it came from local hiking teams. All free information but made by people who hiked these places.
The guests arrive and they were quiet and everything seems fine, but after their stay I get this real bad review. They insist it was very dirty. First they said they found a hair but then it escalated to hair all over and dust and so on. I am a superhost and all my other reviews are 5 star reviews and people are very happy about everything. I hover and wash floors every time someone have stayed there, but of course I am just human and might miss a hair and some dust in a corner, but I am pretty fanatic myself and try to clean it properly. I even hover under all sofas and beds every single time, which is maybe why I feel even more puzzled that they complained so highly about dust. They also complained that there were not enough pots and pans to acommodate them because they really liked making a lot of food and the information they had for hikes was not precise and not enough information about parking and so on. I was simply trying to gather some information for them which I found sufficient, but expectations can be very different. I still thought they would at least appreciate the effort as they didnt make any themself before arriving even its all available online and in english. I still did this because I thought they were staying for a long time, so I wanted to accommodate them but also I thought I could use this information in the future for other guests.
I then wrote the guest and asked why they didnt tell me right away, to give me a change to fix this to acommodate their special needs, especially considering that I prior to their stay specifically had asked for them to contact me about any issues they might have. I also wrote that I didnt find that quite fair and hoped he would understand it from my point of view and consider contacting AirBnB to remove that review.
He then writes back very angry and say I am threatening him to try to remove the review which he refuses and then he threathens me to write that on my profile.
I am chocked by that answer and this is where I dont know wether to just accept that one bad review or if I should involve airbnb to try to have it removed or something different?. I simply dont understand why some people would not just ask for an extra clean if they didnt find it sufficient and a few extra pots, but instead stay for 10 days and then complain afterwards.
What would you do?