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We booked through Airbnb for our spring break vacation at the end of March. We planned on going to Florida and stayed 1 night due to an issue at the place we were staying. Since we had our dog with us, I couldn’t find anything around the area within our budget that would allow us to have pets. I ended up finding a place in Myrtle Beach to book that allowed the dog. We drove all day to get there and arrived around 11:30 PM to check in. We went in to check the place over for bed bugs as I always do. We didn’t end up finding any bed bugs, but discovered the place was infested with cockroaches!! I tried to contact the host first who didn’t respond until the next morning. I then filed a claim with Airbnb to get my money back because we ended up just going home and not even staying 1 night. Airbnb support finally messaged me 3 days after the incident which is where I provided pictures of the incident and explained what happened. I am still fighting with then to get my money back!! My issue is classified as a travel issue and, on their website, constitutes as a full refund. Airbnb ended up siding with the host saying there was nothing more they could do for us because the host would t give any money back other than the $200 cleaning fee. I paid $800 for this place we never even stayed at and they did not a single thing to help get my money back. I will NEVER use Airbnb to book another trip again!! WORAT EXPERIENCE EVER!!!

After being deceived by a host and reporting it to the customer support team, the only resolution that we received was an email response more than a month after our trip that “it didn’t violate their standards and that they have gone over their community standards with the host to ensure they understand” 😒Are you kidding me?! The property is adjacent to a property that is currently burnt down but is occupied, in the original property description there was no mention of it. There is also an aggressive dog that will not stay off of the property and tried to attack me twice. This host approached us about installing a dryer to replace the broken one at the residence, then we brought to her attention the electrical problems throughout the house with all of the outlets that kept tripping or just were not working at all! She then asked me to fix them! I told her I absolutely would fix them but she would have to pay me for my labor! After buying the parts and doing the labor, of course she didn’t pay me for my work. Apparently this host has a few properties and because of this Airbnb doesn’t seem to have a problem with the fact that they are liars and scammers. They’re lucky that Sarah Foust had enough sense not to come to the property after calling me and threatening ME!! I will NEVER use this service again and I will NEVER recommend it!! I also have all of the photos and receipts, emails etc from this host 👌🏼🤔

If I could give this company and this app a negative review, I would. I work in customer service, and I have never seen and will never try to emulate the kind of awful customer service I experienced with AirBnb. I won’t get into the details because I’ve told this story too many times, but in essence, my host lied and claimed that my friends and I broke her air conditioning system and thermostat so she could charge us for the already-broken system. She also promised to refund us if we left our trip early, and—although we did—she refused the refund and then tried to charge us for the the thermostat (and at twice the cost of the actual unit). I contacted AirBnb about this promptly, and not only did they take weeks to answer me back, but they never had the decency to call me back and get my side of things (they only emailed after I complained about not getting a call despite my host getting a call from them). They took months to get to a resolution and their resolution, though vague and unclear, was along the lines of “your host doesn’t have to refund you, and you can solve this on your own.” So, basically, my host and I got into a predicament which AirBnb refused to solve. I believe that their only reason for not wanting to handle this in my favor is because this host rents out multiple locations through AirBnb, and so she is more of an asset to them than I am. I hope this review helps them to see how awful that logic is.