[mancerayder]

> Hosts can remove bad reviews.

Yes and this is so frustrating to me that I'm going to force myself to use hotels more.

What people don't understand is how one manipulates information not from what one says that's false, but in what one omits.

We know for a fact it's easy for a host to remove bad reviews. Take a look at the AirBNB subreddit, which is run by hosts. They actively tell each other how to get rid of reviews. Biggest tip: find something in the review that is 'not something the host has control over'. Boom, success, the entire thing is silently canned, and the writer will never get notified.

I got burned a lot with crappy experiences the last few years. My biggest issue was unexpected noise never mentioned in 20 reviews. One apartment had a bedroom attached to the top floor of an elevator shaft, making clanking noises. Another had THREE restaurant courtyards literally in the yard.

Caveat emptor with AirBNB, because you won't get to leave early and get a refund, whereas hotels are often negotiable.