It was a bad experience. First, the host asked me to make a groupchat involving everyone that would step foot inside the airbnb so that he could send them the same rules written on the website, which I could’ve easily sent over. It didn’t matter that I didn’t want to share their personal information with the host, he was going to hold the keycode to access the airbnb hostage until everyone had read and responded to his message. Nevertheless I agreed and made the groupchat well in advance and asked him explicitly to address everyone (since we needed to reply 24 hours before check-in, I wanted to give everyone the necessary, since some people are busy and don’t necessarily see their messages immediately), he replied not to worry and that everyone answers their messages. He then proceeded to wait until after the deadline for free cancellation to send his message, so forget cancelling if he added new rules we didn’t think we could abide by, a message he sent at midnight the day before check-in. I was forced to bombard everyone with messages to make sure they replied. The day of check-in he was impossible to reach, I messaged him several times asking for the keycode which I was supposed to receive three days prior, with no answer. I tried calling him with the same result. I ended up receiving the keycode exactly 25 minutes before the check-in, a point at which I’d been looking at last minute airbnbs since I didn’t think he would ever answer. Horrible communication. When we get to the airbnb, the walls and the ceilings were dirty and there were no blankets for the beds, we had to use what were essentially large dish towels as blankets. All of his rules were related to the neighborhood and how extremely noise-sensitive it is and there were a bunch of extra fees we had to agree to, but we assumed that the night would at least be peaceful. Instead, the neighbours were partying with speakers that had an extremely loud bass that, essentially, made the apartment vibrate until 5 AM keeping any of us from having any proper sleep.