In sum, bad price to value ratio, crappy communicator and the worse host I’ve had to content in over ~10 years of using AirBnB.
Paul’s place is pretty nice and decently situated. My review is a reflection of my experience with Paul has a host for two reasons:
1) Expectations Setting
- Paul lists his place as supporting immediate booking with self-checking b/t 4 and 6p. This is not accurate. Upon booking his place, I was stuck in front of his place getting chewed by mosquitoes for ~45 min after a 2hr flight and 1hr Uber…
After fees, a 2-night stay avg to ~$315 dollars/night. That’s not the level of service I expect at that price-point.
2) Communication
Upon booking the place, though Paul advertises a self-checking process, he didn’t provide me with check-in code despite my asking at least 3x…Knowing that I had a very timely appointment, I messaged him at 15min interval about 45 min before I got there. He got back to me late and refused to provide me the code…I’m guessing it was changed or whatever…instead he kept badgering me about “whether I’ve read the places polices around parties and noise and the like”. The latter a non-issue as by virtue of booking the place via AirbnB I’ve agreed to those terms.
When I told him that the code he provided did not work (I took a video), he kept telling me I didn’t enter it adequately.
Now, I acknowledge that I could make a mistake so I asked him for specifics on how to enter the code (via Airbnb msg), called the number he had listed, and texted him - to no avail.
When I finally got in touch w someone via the number he had listed, it was a “management company that could only take a message for me, but couldnt help with the door.”
So while I’m wasting away being chewed by mosquitoes, late for my appointment, he kept asking me about “what my plans are” instead of providing the code to the place or saying he can’t find it and extend me a refund.
In sum, bad price to value ratio, crappy communicator and the worse host I’ve had to content in over ~10 years of using AirBnB