My friend and I have been staying at airbnb houses for many years but this is the first time that we have been literally kicked out of the house in the middle of the night! And we haven't yet understood the reason why this happened.
My friend and I were travelling to London and I had booked this room to stay on my own. My friend had a flight the next day early in the morning and instead of letting her roam on the streets during the night, I asked her to stay with me for a few hours at the room that I had booked. She would stay for no more that 5 hours at the room, so I thought that the host would not mind.
When we arrived at the room the lady told us that she was expecting 1 person instead of two and I explained to her that my friend would leave early in the morning to catch her flight. She did not seem to bother with that, she only mentioned that she was angry because we did not inform her about the exact time of our arrival. I informed her that I would arrive in the morning but then I had some other obligations so I told her that I would be late. She also said that she has been calling me several times to my phone but got no response. I later realised that I had failed to update my mobile number on my airbnb profile so this number she was calling was out of service. It was of course my fault that I forgot to update my mobile number on airbnb, but I did not do it on purpose. This could have happened to anyone. But I don't understand why she got so upset with that. She could have informed me about it on the airbnb messenger and I would have given her my other number. Instead, she kept on calling and then she told us that she informed airbnb about it, instead of informing me!! Phones can run out of battery, or be out of signal. I don't understand why she got so upset that she could not find me. And I dont understand why she did not inform me about it so that the issue could be resolved.
So after scolding us about this incident, she let us stay in the room. 3 hours later, she all of a sudden entered our room and told us that if we wouldn't leave within 10 minutes she would call the police. We got really upset because we could not understand why she threatened us. She said that we had told her that my friend would leave within 2 hours but she didn't. What we actually told her was that my friend would leave in A FEW hours. But still, if it bothered her so much that my friend would stay in the room for almost 5 hours, then she could have asked for extra money and we would not refuse to give it to her. But she never asked us for extra money. Instead, she treated us like we were thieves or dangerous people and threatened us by saying that she would call the police if we wouldn't leave. Even while we were getting ready to leave, she refused to leave us alone in the room and she kept on following us everywhere we were going, as if she was afraid that we would steal something. We felt like criminals and really embarrassed and humiliated. If for some reason she did not trust us, she could have just refused to host us in the first place (although I don't think we gave her any reason to think that we are not trustworthy) we also offered to show the tickets of the flight to prove that there was an actual flight after a few hours. She did not cooperate for one second. But apparently she is just racist and she did not like the colour of my skin that's why she treated us like that. She literally kicked us out of the room at 12.30 am and at this time we had to find another room to stay. This was very hard because hotels don't usually let you check in at this time. She was very rude and I really think that we did not give her any reason to be so rude. My only fault was that I failed to update my mobile number. If this made her think that we are bad people then she should stop hosting people in her house because apparently she has trust issues.