Major Privacy Violation!
We chose this air b&b for my friends bachelor and birthday party. I communicated with the host about how many people would be attending/sleeping overnight which at first was 8. Due to the rule of having over 12 guests considered an “event”, allowed for an additional charge as well as the host to co-host the event, as stated in his profile. A few days before we checked in, our number had gone up to 10-11, and when that number changed from what I said previously, I chose to be completely transparent with the host. Due to cameras in the house, I didn’t want him to think we had gone over the limit we discussed, and I wanted to honor his rule and home. However, once telling him the change in number, he tried to charge me an additional $350+. Keep in mind at this point the house was already paid for in full and we did not exceed the limit of people to make it acceptable for a cohost. After discussing it with the host, he decided to not charge me the additional fee which I appreciated due to not exceeding the limit of 12 guests.
Honestly, everything was fairly good about the house, clean, good location, etc. The only thing that was unacceptable was the fact that the host came into the house on the first night at 4:30 am, came up the stairs where the girls were sleeping with a flashlight, shined it on us, woke up one of my friends and scared us half to death. I’m not sure if he was counting us to make sure I was telling him the truth about how many guests were staying (which ended up being only 10), or what his intentions were. I had my phone on me the entire night and did not get any sort of communication as to him planning on checking on us, coming into the home or anything of the sort. In fact, in his listing it states we would have complete privacy. This person was not a member of our group, came when everybody was asleep when the house was locked with a pad lock and lock box code that the host gave me. My main concern is what if we were changing, what if we were naked, alone, etc. Why 4:30 in the morning? Why no heads up? What was the need for checking on us if that was the intention?
We made an inquiry to Air B&B’s officials and they emailed and called me to speak about it, saying it was against privacy of guests and that they were going to investigate. However, I have not heard back from them to move forward.
For anybody staying here in the future, just be aware of what happened for our group.