No amount of refund can justify the misery of getting off a long plane flight only to find that the check in information is incomplete and your host is unavailable. So you will happily wander the streets with your luggage at night, looking for a place to get online, buying drinks in a bar or cafe, trying to contact your host until finally you contact airbnb and finally after 4 hours just as airbnb is going to set you up with someplace else (from 6pm until 10pm) your host is kind enough and bothers to respond with the apt number and where is the key.
We used to stay in actual peoples homes, but these days they are all just empty apts like this one, God forbid that for $463. there might be some coffee in the kitchen.
The place has great bones but looks like Carolina hasn't put a cent into it, The furniture is cheap and threadbare. The fridge is sad. The bathtub is beautiful but could use some porcelain work. The views are great out of beautiful windows. The heat works great and so does the hot water. The wood floor is beautiful. But it felt like a million dollar apt owned by someone who is broke.
The one night refund that Carolina offered was thoughtful. But in what universe is $85 one third of a $463 charge for three nights? Carolinas apt is 90 a night. But her cleaning fee is $140. lol That'll be good news to the Tunisians, the Syrians and the Turks who do all the work in Geneve. Finally after screaming at the lame airbnb representitives they gave me an actual refund. Halleluja and Praise the Gods. But I would have much more enjoyed to simply get into the apt without all the fuss.