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Anonymous01/12/26, 00:14No.2854649Afraid to do a refund
I'm at this airbnb that i booked for almost 3 weeks, the host was really nice, but the place is honestly shit. It has this odd lingering smell that i can't stand, and its dirty despite reviews saying it was clean. The room is cold, the shower water is barely warm. The bed has hairs and tiny bugs in it. The area around the hotel is also full of junkies and crazy people. I feel so uncomfortable here. It says i can cancel and get a partial refund, i've only been here for 2 days so I would get like 80% back whcih i would use to book a hotel like Marriot or Hilton for a week and get smashed. Do I just hit the cancel button, leave the keys and bail without saying a word?? is there anything the host can do to come after or charge me extra money. I'm never coming back to this town again (it's fucking awful as well) and will probably never use airbnb again.
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Anon01/12/26, 00:37No.2854651
>Do I just hit the cancel button, leave the keys and bail without saying a word??
No. You cancel and send him a cordial message with photos to support your actions. Tell him you won't leave a review since you stayed a short time, if you feel bad.
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Anon01/12/26, 00:41No.2854652
And take your own side. You should be valuing yourself, being an advocate of yourself and ensuring you get what you deserve and also the best.
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Anon01/12/26, 02:13No.2854664
don't hesitate, get out and report the host to airbnb, take lots of pictures as proof and communicateas the other poster said, you need to stand up for yourself sometimes, shitty hosts are a blight
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Anon01/12/26, 02:44No.2854666
>The bed has hairs and tiny bugs in it.
take a bunch of pictures/videos and then get the fuck out.
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Anon01/12/26, 03:00No.2854668
Brother, the moment you see bed bugs, get the fuck out. Crime and junkies are bad but bed bugs are worse. They have some weird effect where you'll wake up months or even years from now, panicking and thinking that they're biting you. They wreck your brain.Cancel and get the refund. There's a good chance those bugs will get inside your luggage, and if that happens, you're fucked for life. They're harder to get rid of than cockroaches. They're resistant to basically any poison and they can hibernate without food for a full fucking year.
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Anon01/12/26, 03:04No.2854670
This happened to me twice in a year with airbnb, this is why I no longer use the app. Hotels are safer, cheaper, and there's less bullshit drama like this.Also bedbugs are worse than your worst nightmare, strongly consider burning everything you have with you and don't take it home with you, trust me it will be FAR CHEAPER to replace what you're traveling with than to deal with a bedbug infestation at your home.
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Anon01/13/26, 21:13No.2855068
>The bed has [...] tiny bugs in it
>i've [...] been here for 2 days
You're fucked
Hopefully this teaches you to check under and around the bed for bed bugs and eggs as the first step when entering any accommodation
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Anon01/14/26, 03:02No.2855113
What country? every time I hear these airbnb terribad stories I never hear the country.
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Anon01/19/26, 07:20No.2856181
If the room is as described in the advertisement (not reviews) what grounds would you have to seek a refund? You did stay there, someone else couldn't.It's entirely fair to leave a bad review if you had a bad stay, but a refund is really only for false advertising and ToS violation.I put in for a few refunds where the host double booked, wasn't there to let me in, or the pictures were fake, but never because I just didn't like the room. While you can get refunds and blackmail businesses into giving them in my view that makes you a parasite, both because you failed to warn other travellers that the room is shit, and because you didn't pay for a service you actually recived.I work in actual hotels, and we have to deal with people trying to jew their way out of paying all the time. It's a cultural behaviour we almost expect from certain guests who figure they're leaving the next day so what have they got to lose? We've had guests threaten to review bomb us, book in again just to leave other bad reviews, poor faith behaviour. And yes, often they get to stay for free, it works, and that's why the whole industry fucking hates guests, groups of guests, nationalities, people who do this shit.