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by CaptainZapp 2424 days ago
Yes they usually are.

There's a raft of AirBnB horror stories[1] about hosts pulling a confirmed booking at the last moment and AirBnb's "awesome" customer support leaving the guest high and dry if they were approachable at all.

AirBnb may have been a great idea in 2010. Nowadays what you get is very oten a cheaply outfitted cooky cutter appartment managed by some faceless management company.

You may also be asked to sneak to your appartment through the back door because the lease is actually illegal at your destination and other such fun shenanigens, while the price essesntially is no more cheaper than a comparable hotel room.

[1] https://www.airbnbhell.com/

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Nice I didn't know this one. I did a quick search and found a lot of stories like mine where people tried to used my now defunct account, and they got zero support from AirBS