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by jschwartzi 2437 days ago
The last AirBnb I stayed in was sparkling clean and totally infested with cockroaches. And they had the nerve to tell me they couldn't get me a full refund, and that I should be used to staying in lower-end places. In the end my fiance and I had to book a hotel anyway, at great inconvenience to ourselves and with no guarantee from AirBnb that they would refund anything. That was way more inconvenient than not having a kitchen for a few days.

So the flip side of it is that you're rolling the dice and AirBnb doesn't actually have a way to guarantee anything for you the way a hotel would.