Oh man, I may end up with a wild AirBNB story by the end of tonight.
Today I received a call (@ 4 PM… which was check-in time 👀) that the Airbnb I selected was trashed by the former guests and would need extra cleaning, so the property manager offered to put me in another property close by and provided me with all the “need to know” information for the new place.
I just got a call at 7:25 that the ORIGINAL property I selected is totally fine, but the floors and the couch will probably be wet.
What am I walking into?
Oh and they still want me to pay $20 for parking after all this crap. I feel that it’s important that I had this $300 voucher because AirBNB ‼️FLAT OUT CANCELED‼️ the Sarasota condo my mom and I rented for the ENTIRE MONTH of February with less than THREE MONTHS AWAY to find a new place with a pool in Venice, FL. All the places were already rented out and when we looked, it was nearly 2.5 x more expensive. I had reserved the condo nearly 1 year in advance so our original cost was $3,000 for the entire month in a beautiful house with a pool, hot tub, and had its own boat dock on the river.
Only to get a message IN THE APP, which I never received a notification for and had been there, undetected by me, for over a week. By the time I saw it, we couldn’t find anywhere less than 25 mins from all her friends in Venice. I, on the other hand, had ZERO requests other than (1) Florida, (2) an entire month during the winter, (3) our own pool… no walkin down to the community pool- I didn’t want to talk to anyone IRL for a month other than Dolores 😂.
At the end of the day, they were like, “sorry it took us this long to know that the house you reserved was a scam. While we cannot pay the difference or, you know, assist with any of the new costs directly associated to our error, and it’s true there are no locations available close where you originally booked, we hope you’ll look at this condo (w/its own pool) kinda by the airport for $7,000. Oh, here is a voucher that you only have a few months to use for a whole $300 to make up for our monumental screw up”.
And that’s how I got THAT voucher for this stay.
K thanks.