Olly was very responsive and considerate until the day of my arrival.
Olly supposedly heard 2h before I got into in town that his last tenant was positive for Covid. Even though this is not longer recognized as an extenuating circumstance by Airbnb he told me that he could not host me that night but had another room for my second night.
He then offered to drive me to another place he had found, but it turns out it was 3 miles away ! After he had sent me links to two other places (which turned out not to be a option : one got booked and one was in a seedy neighborood), Olly asked me to cancel my booking for that night.
After I asked him why he could not merely desinfect the room, he sent a cancellation request to Airbnb for both my nigths at his place ! I was left with nowhere to go to for my entire stay in Manchester !
Fortunalety the Airbnb support took over and helped me locate an available room and thanks to a small voucher with not too many extracosts.
I was very disappointed at how the deal with Olly ended when it had started so well and was baffled that he could merely cancel the booking and wash his hands of the case without a second tought !