I got thinking about all the hosts who have said their guests never bothered to read house rules or policies on their listing.
This is an ongoing issue that I think can be fixed with the implementation of an “Accept” or “Decline” button for reading and agreeing to the house rules and cancelation policy.
The way it would work in my head, would be when a guest requests to book, prior to payment, a new screen pops up with the house rules and the cancelation policy. A guest can then click accept or decline. If a guest clicks “Accept” another window will populate telling them that:
“You have agreed to the host’s house rules and cancellation policy. In addition to that, you also agree to these terms if house rules are broken during your stay.
1. Any violation of the hosts house rules will results in cancellation of their reservation.
2. Guest will not be permitted to book again on the platform for X amount of days or weeks.
3. Guests review privileges will be suspended for the listing in which they just broke house rules for.
4. Any damages to the listing by the guest automatically suspends their right to leave a review for that listing/stay.
They would then be asked one more time if they “Agree” or “Decline”
If the guest “declines” the house rules & cancelation policy, then the listing is no longer available to them anymore.
Instant Book would be similar to the above mentioned process.
I encourage other host’s opinions, thoughts, changes, feedback.
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