This place is not a boutique hotel. That’s very inaccurate. It’s a guy renting out rooms in a house.
My friend picked Riks place for New Year’s Eve trip. She forwarded me the AirBnB link and I booked. We saw “boutique hotel“. When I booked - the Airbnb user interface only allowed me to book for one person. I wasn’t really paying attention to this dynamic. 100% of the time a “hotel” reservation can be made for one person - so I figured I could make the room res in my name.
When I show up to Riks place - I openly tell him my friend will be arriving in the morning. Not hiding anything. Why would I? He refused to allow her to stay in my room and coldly says she will need to get another hotel. He completely believed I was trying to pull a fast one on him. He even told me the bed wasn’t big enough for two people (it’s a full size bed).
I asked him if I could pay him more money. No. I asked him for flexibility. No. His next excuse was the the Amsterdam hotel authority could possibly get wind of him having an extra person in his house and then they would “fine me $10,000”. The next morning when my friend arrived I asked him again politely - she was very upset and blamed herself. He said no.
It cost me $700 to say one night in this BS “boutique hotel”. Bottom line. Honest mistakes happen when you travel. His description is bare bones and kinda misleading - and he was dismissive when I brought this up. It wasn’t a big deal. He could have been flexible. But Rik made us leave - Merry Christmas.
By the way. I have an awesome AirBNB rating - from over 15 hosts over 5 years. I left respectfully without saying anything mean.
You want to stay with hosts that can be flexible and accommodating and helpful.