Nice stay overall, but a couple of quite serious issues.
We booked to stay back in February to stay in Edinburgh during August for the festival. Some while after our booking was confirmed the host sent a message saying:
“ Due to glitches in the Airbnb price list, my apartment was listed for very less price .
I am sending alternative request with small price change. Please do accept the request.
If you feel , price is more then please feel free to cancel the booking..
Hope you understand.”
I then emailed air bnb who swiftly confirmed that no such glitches had been reported and that we were not obliged to make this payment, there was also no such chat on social media about these supposedly damaging glitches either. I suspect that the host had simply forgotten to spike their prices for the Edinburgh Fringe.
In any case, it was really not cool for the host to try and extort more money from us in that way
Secondly we arrived to find the blinds in the main bedroom were broken, they had been gaffa taped up evidently. We had to sleep the first night with no blinds (the street outside is very well lit). They then gaffa taped the blinds on the second night, which fell down by the third night - in the middle of the night mind! They only managed to replace the blinds on the fourth & final night . This was disappointing because the light coming into the room made it difficult to sleep & the host really could have handled this a lot better