My first unpleasant Airbnb experience.
My boyfriend and I didn‘t get to stay at Francescas place because the night we we‘re supposed to get into her appartment she claimed the keys got stolen and we felt sorry for her. For that night she organized a room in a hotel of a friend which we thought was really nice of her. She herself said she was staying at the same hotel, but we never got to see or speak to her since she never answered the phone when we called she only communicated via text (Whatsapp) and most of the time it took her hours to answer. The next day she was supposed to get the keys to her appartment, but asked us if we prefered staying at the hotel. We told her that we prefered the appartment, this is why we chose Airbnb and not a hotel. She was ok with that and then we were supposed to meet at 4pm at the hotel or her appartment. We left the lugage at the hotel and went for a walk and waited for her. 10minutes before our meeting she cancelled and tried to insist, that we take the hotel although we told very clearly that this is not what we wanted and at this point we really felt that this was a scam. I tried to call her to talk but she didn‘t answer or call back. We took our lugage and called Airbnb to report her and found another nice Airbnb room.
Long story short: It would have been better to be honest and cancel on us in the morning instead of making us lose a whole day in Berlin waiting for something that wasn‘t supposed to happen. It was a short weekend trip that was supposed to relax us and instead was just stressful because of this very weird and shady event.
I think that if you don‘t have time or you don‘t feel like hosting someone, you shouldn‘t offer your appartment just to make some money. I know a lot of people had good experiences with her, but I can’t share these experiences. I really can not recommend staying with her, sorry.