We had booked the house for our honey moon. On our wedding day, we wanted to have our last group pictures with our 6 authorized guests in the garden and the host treated us like criminals. As soon as he saw Black people entering the garden, he called the police. We tried explaining that we only wanted to take our last wedding pictures and I apologized for not warning him before - as this was not planned - but he did not listen at all. He was only shouting at us “I don’t care it’s your wedding, it’s outrageous, I’m calling the police”, recording videos of our guests and counting down to 5 then 3 minutes for us to leave the property.
It was a very traumatic and humiliating experience. He ruined our wedding day and caused a lot of emotional distress especially on my side. I was 6 week pregnant at that time and very vulnerable. His reaction was completely disproportionate as we only wanted to take pictures in the garden. It was sadly obvious that the only reason why he called the police and treated us that poorly was because a majority of our friends were Black.
We had to leave in a hurry and leave all the food we had prepared as we were in shock and felt safer going back home that day. After that, we did not feel safe, comfortable or even welcome in the house. He was always watching us so we spent as little time as possible on the property.
2 days after, he came to attack me while I was in the garden. He started shouting me again and would not listen when I tried explaining that it was just a misunderstanding. We were scared to use the garden and we were relieved to leave for good. I don’t think I’ll ever use Airbnb again after this...