This was the biggest scam I have experienced on Airbnb, a website that I've generally had good experiences with. The advertisement said the unit was 300 sqft, and the host assured me that it was quiet. I booked it for a month, trusting what I read. When I got there, besides noticing the smell (like chemical adhesives), the spiderwebs in the corners, and the noise up until 4 am, I felt extremely uncomfortable and cramped. As I could not readily tell what 300 sqft was, it had not occurred to me that I was scammed. Only after a few days, when I realized that I could not live there anymore, that I begin looking at hotel rooms. I noticed that the other hotel rooms, which were 240 sqft, were in fact much larger than this "300 sqft" unit. I came back and measured the unit, and I deem it to be around 200-216 sqft. When I told the host, they refused to return me any money, claiming that since I was there for over 3 days, I no longer met the cancellation policy. Scammed me out of $3000 USD.