[swaggyBoatswain]

Airbnb has "public" and "private" reviews. "Public reviews" are shown everywhere, "private" is just messaged directly to the host only. You need to write a "public review" to do a "private one" to my knowledge, last time I used it.

Whenever I had a bad host relationship, I decided not to pursue it further and leave no review at all. It feels weird that there is no recourse action because you don't know if your host will recripcate posting a good review, a honest terrible review, a fake bad review, or none at all. Your host might know your experience was bad and doesn't know either if you will post what he will post. Airbnb reviews feels like the prisons dileama game theory problem.