From unexpected roommates to uninvited critters, the world of Airbnb can sometimes be a wild and unpredictable place. While many travelers enjoy the convenience and unique experiences offered by this platform, others have had some truly disastrous stays. We’ve gathered some of the most outrageous and unbelievable tales of Airbnb horror from guests who have seen it all.
I stayed at an AirBnB in Milan with a couple of friends of mine. I was the only guy in the group and apparently, our host had never let a male enter her apartment before, so she was refusing our group from entering her apartment at 11 PM after we had traveled all day.
She ushered us in and began screaming at us for disturbing her, to the point of making some of my friends cry. After entering her apartment, we saw that she had about 10 cats that just freely roam around the apartment, with no liter. So there was just cat sh*t all over the apartment (mind you 3 of us in the group are very allergic to cats). The worst part was when we rolled out the bed part from the futon, we found all this poop and hair that covered the entire bed.
We stayed for a couple of hours trying to figure out how to not die at the apartment and left right at the crack of dawn, fearing for our lives.
AirBNB in Toronto. Sister and I brought our passports. They demanded we forfeit the passports on arrival. We said absolutely not and after hesitation were shown to our space. The rooms did not match the pictures posted at all. The place reeked of bleach that had been used recently. We took photos of every room and quietly slipped out when no one was watching. Reported everything to AirBNB and were given a full refund. Their ad was removed and the host was blocked. Seriously we believe we narrowly escaped being trafficked that day.
Non-smoker all my life. Never touched cigarettes, and cannot purchase cigarettes, yet the host takes a picture of a cigarette butt on the table and frames me of smoking. Asking for 1000$+.
I am deeply disappointed at the despicable behavior and do not know how many people have fallen victim before me. Shameful. Obviously, I will not pay a penny, but I am thinking of filing an official lawsuit against her for damaging my reputation. Unlikely I will win, but still.
My host lied about having wifi and a king-sized bed. Then, I was woken up by her sneaking into the apartment in the middle of the night and snooping in my bag. I had to call the police… That was fun.
[host] Toilet paper is on its own.
[me] what does “is on its own” mean?
[host]Welcome kit is provided. You have to buy more.
[me] The listing says you provide “essentials”, including toilet paper [I include a screenshot of the listing’s amenities]
[host]Yes, but not for the entire stay. But no problem. I’ll tell [cohost] to give you
[me] That’s not what airbnb means by that, but thank you for the toilet paper.
What’s next, a “welcome package” of hot water? The first 100 MB of wifi are free, after that wifi “is on its own”? 1 pillow per guest is included for the first night but after that, you need to deposit a quarter in each pillow to use for the night?
I’m so over host charging $200 and expecting guests to clean the apartment. I just stayed in an Airbnb where I was asked to wash towels upon leaving. They didn’t leave any laundry detergent. I asked the host and they said they don’t provide it. So I left the towels in the washing machine and didn’t run it, and told the host. They left me a horrible review because I didn’t “follow cleaning instructions.” I’m not about to go buy laundry detergent for a 4-night stay.
We rented an absolutely beautiful home. Spent way more than we normally do as we were treating ourselves after a horrible few months. We drove 8 hours and finally got to the home that we had rented 2 weeks ago. Get out of the car and hear music coming from the pool and think, “Lovely, they’re welcoming us with music.” A man in swim trunks comes up and says, “Hey! Are you the roofers?”. We tell him no, that we’ve rented the home for the next 5 days. He looks very confused and says, “But I’m staying here for the next month. I’ve been here a month already.” Turns out he is the uncle of the homeowner. She has been letting him stay there while he’s visiting from the UK. She never bothered to block the calendar. My husband calls her, and she completely comes apart, yelling and cursing. Tells him to “just find another place.” That’s not an easy thing to do in a beach town. We called AirBnB and they were apologetic, but couldn’t help us find another property because there just isn’t anything to rent right now. We ended up 1.5 hours away from where we were supposed to be.
We checked out of a spectacular apartment in Morocco because it was partially booked during our stay. No big deal, we booked into another place – right down the street. Similar price, a slightly lower rating, but similarly glowing reviews. No reason to suspect anything wrong.
Checked in and everything seems okay…nothing was quite right, but nothing was egregious either – except the wifi didn’t work. I contacted the host and he led me around in circles for literally the whole time.
Night time came, and we realized that the small beds did not have sheets. That is pretty gross, but we just laid the extra blankets on top for my kids.
The next day, the stove didn’t work, and we noticed the restroom began smelling like sewage. I’m trying to complain to the host, but we’re still arguing about the wifi, so he’s just sort of ignoring everything. I managed to turn the gas on myself to make my coffee, but then the whole kitchen smells like propane. Naturally, I turn it off, and we are unable to cook for the remainder of our trip.
After day 3 (checkout day), all 4 of us developed a pretty bad cough – that is still lingering for myself and my youngest 3 weeks later. I won’t say it’s definitely the apartment, but my wife mentioned she suspects they never wash the blankets and that’s what’s giving us the cough.
So we check out, and I leave my review, which mentions all of this (except the cough, I did not mention this, because I just don’t know for sure). I wasn’t looking for Airbnb to do anything about it. It’s just that all of the reviews are all positive, and I want people to know our honest experience – no wifi, probable gas leak, smells like sewage, blankets not washed. He gives me a decent review btw, because I’m sure I’ve only mildly inconvenienced him.
NEXT DAY: I got a message from Airbnb saying that my review has been removed for violating their terms and some sort of mark has been put on my record. That’s weird, so I contact support, and they will not give me any information. Probably 50+ messages later, I finally get it out of them that I have COERCED the host into letting me have a party, and the review probably doesn’t reflect my actual experience.
WHAT. THE. F*CK. Does that even mean?
I got them to send me the “proof”. Here it is for your entertainment: https://imgur.com/a/7p1HknJ
I’m obviously livid because it’s not even proper English – Google Translate probably would have done a better job. Not only that, but I somehow managed to “send” him this WhatsApp message about 12 hours BEFORE he gave me his number, which IS documented in our Airbnb messages (wouldn’t they check those?). It seems the host likely got AM and PM confused when he faked this message.
A WEEK and a dozen messages later after pointing out the difference between AM and PM, they send me a message saying “You’re probably right and your review has been reinstated”. Good f*cking grief.
I said, “That is ABSOLUTE LEAST you can do. I have no reason to trust Airbnb at all if guys like this are allowed to operate AT ALL.”
About two days later, I got a message saying my review had been removed AGAIN. For the same reason.
I contacted support again, and went through the whole circus AGAIN. And today, I got messages from both threads: they decided against me on the €22, and they decided against me on getting my review reinstated.
7 years of business with Airbnb. The last 3 years or so have been increasingly rocky, and this is it. Airbnb doesn’t have licensing or legal standards to keep up. If I can’t trust the reviews, I don’t have anything. So this is it. Goodbye forever.
I am in an AirBNB with my baby. My husband is currently in the next town over at a family event. He took the rental car so perhaps it looked like nobody was home. Baby’s stroller was right next to the door, which I would think would indicate guests are currently using the property. I heard someone start using the keypad to unlock the house; which scared the heck out of me. The door opened up and it was an older woman with her friend; she immediately started apologizing saying she didn’t realize anyone was home. She was the host’s mother and wanted to show her friend the couch in here.
My friends and I were in Charleston staying at an Air BnB during NYE. The House was nice but we found out there was a man (ex-husband) of the owner living in the garage. She said he was the handyman, but we found out they had just broken up and he didn’t have a place to stay. He didn’t bother us, it was just a weird situation to see a garage with a bed in it.
The last and only AirBnB I stayed in pretty much put me off the service for good. It was a nice place in a great location, from the look of the pictures. A friend and I were going to a concert in the area that night and drove in from out of town. After being on the road for hours, we were exhausted and starving. Once we settled in we realized it was very obvious the house hadn’t been cleaned since the last guest. There were small bits of garbage everywhere, dirty dishes in the sink, and old food in the fridge. The advertised “second bed” was an air mattress with no sheets and the sheets on the master bed looked… questionable. Then I made it to the master bathroom. There were dark, thick, curly hairs all over the bathroom floor. One of the sinks was clogged with cloudy water. The bathroom mirror was covered in flecks of toothpaste and debris. There was no hot water in the apartment.
I told the property manager that the house was not acceptable and we would be booking a hotel for the night and asked where to leave the key. I offered to accept a partial refund as I had taken a (freezing cold) shower and used one of their towels. The property owner refused and gave me an awful rating, accusing me of “tampering” with his property and “expecting the experience of the Ritz hotel.” I sent AirBnB photos of the condition of the place. They gave me a full refund.
I booked a 7-night stay in Los Angeles (ok, it was Marina del Rey). I was travelling with my husband and our two young kids which included our 1-year-old baby.
Two nights into our stay, we returned to the apartment in the afternoon to find an eviction notice on the door from the property management. The eviction was for multiple months of unpaid rent. The notice clearly states that if the rent wasn’t paid back plus extra fees within 3 days, the property management would seize possession of the premises. And we had 5 more nights that we had already paid for.
I called Airbnb immediately and told them I felt UNSAFE and that our stay was no longer secure. I only asked to be rebooked immediately elsewhere to a similar property in the area. I had concerns that the host would barge in and start removing her things from the apartment, harassing us or what she was capable of after this notice. An eviction letter is not a first-time warning so obviously this was a long-standing problem.
Airbnb gave me 2 options. A) Contact the host and have her release us from booking. Spoiler alert: she didn’t and I knew she wouldn’t. It wouldn’t be in her favor to do so financially. Or B ) Trust the host if she said that she resolved it with the apartment management. The host said all was resolved but did not provide proof of it. There’s no way I could trust someone who was accepting Airbnb bookings if they didn’t pay the rent. And as a 3rd party, the apartment management has no obligation to tell me if she paid. What if we stayed, rent was not back paid and the apartment management locked the apartment or confiscated the things we had (luggage/passports etc), what rights would we have?
So I stayed up until 5 am, desperately trying to escalate this with Airbnb, asking to speak to a supervisor, getting absolutely nowhere with them and simultaneously trying to find another place to stay right away. I could only connect to call centers outside the US, where their reps only read from a script and were devoid of any urgency or incentive to help.
And Airbnb had the audacity to say if we vacated early, that we would be held to the cancellation policy which meant no refund. I asked how that was possible to ask us to stay when there was a 3-day timeline for the eviction and we had 5 more nights? Crickets.
In the end, we quickly left to a hotel and I contacted my credit card for a fraud dispute. I also emailed the apartment management, sent them the Airbnb link and asked if the tenant (aka the host) was allowed to sublet to Airbnb. They replied that absolutely not, the lease prohibits any subletting.
I wrote a negative review of our stay, cited the eviction debacle and the host replied that the apartment management never informed her of any problems! Obviously, a lie because our messaging within the Airbnb app included her saying that she was emailed the eviction notice.
Despite all the documentation, MY CREDIT CARD DENIED THE REFUND AND SAID I MUST ADHERE TO AIRBNB’S CANCELLATION POLICY !!
We stayed at an Air BnB that was someone’s full-time house (we didn’t know that when we reserved it.) The owner ended up moving into a shed at the back of the property for the week that we were there! I took a look over there once when she wasn’t around (the backyard was clearly marked with a sign that read, “Private Past This Point,”) and, yup, it was a shed that she’d outfitted with a bed, sink, hotplate, and TV. As far as I could tell there was no toilet in the shed, and only an outdoor shower.
The house was fine, but the shed situation made it weird. It felt like the owner was keeping an eye on us. We surmised that she needed to make extra money by doing this (there were some signs that she was recently divorced, and we wondered if she bought the house with a spouse who was no longer in the picture,) but didn’t have a place to go when the house was rented out.
Me and my husband were relocating to a major city center, and we stayed in airbnbs while we were looking for an apartment. At the same time, my husband was transferred to his company, and his new store location was still up in the air.
He secured a trial shift at one store location, and as soon as he got into work I received a text saying “What’s the name of our Airbnb host?” I told him, and he commented that the host shared a name with his new boss.
Just a reminder that we were moving to a major center (as in millions of people) with hundreds of airbnbs and over 10 store locations in which my husband may have been placed. My first reaction was to assume that they simply shared a name. When my husband returned to the AirBnB I showed him our host’s profile photo.
IT WAS THE SAME GUY.
Out of MILLIONS of people, we somehow managed to stay in his boss’s basement suite.
We had to be stealthy for the rest of our stay as we are both socially awkward and didn’t want to have any weird encounters with his new boss.
My boyfriend and I rented a nice cottage out of town for our anniversary. The place was great, the view was great, and the lists of rules and stipulations were, however, not great. There was an entire page of rules to be followed, which I can understand is pretty basic but they were bordering on obsessive. The owner also expected us to be the maid for the next guests. All the way down to vacuuming and mopping the d*mn place. Nowhere in the ad for the place (or the reviews for that matter) did it ever mention that you have to literally clean the place from top to bottom before you leave. I can understand basic common sense like clean up after yourself and do your dishes, but cleaning the toilet, the shower, vacuuming and mopping?! Nah, lazy a**h*le.
We booked a monthly stay at this cozy-looking small house which looked fine in the pictures but little did we know the nightmare was just beginning. The woman had two houses on a small lot. One bigger house that she lived in and two smaller ones presumably for Airbnb.
In her ad she listed that she had a nice pool that is good to swim in on hot days however when we arrived the water was green and had a layer of biofilm on the top.
The woman who seems ok at first shows us inside the house and immediately the pungent smell of mold and cat urine just hits us in the face. It smelled like a hundred cats drank ammonia and just urinated on everything. And the mold, lord it smelled like that house had just been sealed up for 50 years. I immediately wanted to leave but there were slim pickings in our price range (400-600usd/month) at the time so I told myself we’ll buy some spray and deal with it.
When she leaves and we are unpacking I go to check out what we have for cookware and everything is filthy. There is a spider’s nest in the blender, dirt and grime on literally everything, and just rotting peeling counter panels. Just disgusting!! After a couple of hours in the place, we also start to get a headache. My wife and I. We text her about the moldy smell and she simply denies it saying that it is “impossible” because the walls are concrete. Stupid I know.
There are two upstairs rooms and bathrooms, in one of the bathrooms there was an actual turd still left in the toilet from the last guest? And in the other bathroom, there was a hairy bar of soap. The blinds had a thick coat of brown grime that was sticky and there was dust and dirt on everything. In addition to this, there were several cockroaches running around in the upstairs bedroom and I had reached my limit!
We text her through Airbnb and tell her that her house is disgusting and we don’t feel like she cleaned the place at all. She comes over and asks what specifically the problem is. I show her everything and told her that it stinks. And this is where it gets interesting. She immediately becomes hostile and starts yelling at me saying that I am insulting her house and I am being disrespectful. She says that things cant be clean to my standards because it’s a tropical country and that “tropical countries are always dirtier” Having grown up in a tropical climate myself I know that this is complete nonsense. She said “I’m sorry that you had expectations” and that “she can do nothing about it” She then stormed out.
Needless to say, we immediately started taking pictures of everything and immediately contacted Airbnb and sent them the photos. The Airbnb agent on the phone was horrified by the pictures and assured us we would receive a refund. We then had to find a new place and get out of there as quickly as possible.
It was by far the dirtiest Airbnb I have ever stayed in and I have no idea how some of these psychos even make it on the app lol. Funny enough all of my worst experiences with Airbnb have been in Brazil.
I was working away and my girlfriend had come to visit. She checked into the place while I was still working and I was going to meet her at around 1 am when I finished.
According to her, the room was actually the host’s own bedroom, and he was going to sleep on the couch which was weird enough.
She called me at about 12am saying she checked into a hotel because she found a bedbug while she was sitting on the bed. Apparently when she told the host he begged her to stay and tried to force money into her hands.
We put in a complaint about it in the morning and within an hour were contacted by phone. They refunded us in full, removed the host from the site and paid for our hotel.
Had to book somewhere in a rundown town with zero notice. Found somewhere in an inconvenient location but there was nothing else. Ignored the red flags when the host/owner contacted us, before confirming the booking, about having a tiny baby and that our visit would have to fit around its feeding time. Said we just needed somewhere to crash for the night – we’d dump our bags and head straight to dinner, then leave early in the morning. We got held up in awful traffic (huge accident, roads blocked) which pushed our arrival time to 6 pm. I kept in contact with the host the whole way but she got increasingly agitated. I said we’d make ourselves scarce and would head straight out. Arrived and were told we couldn’t use any other area of the house (due to said baby). Headed straight out. Started receiving texts at dinner asking what time we’d be back (we’d be given a set of keys to use, so as not to disturb them). Asked if we could be back by 11 pm. Arrived back at their house to find a door chain lock on the door – even with keys we were locked out. We then met the husband who greeted us with a grunt before walking off. As we were confined to the bedroom, we had no idea where the kitchen was and didn’t want to explore in the dark so we lapped water from the bathroom tap like a dog. We were then awoken by a knock on the door at 6 am – she was headed to work and we’d mentioned we’d be leaving early, didn’t we need to be off soon? The whole thing was so uncomfortable and a waste of money.
I got an Airbnb that was listed as close to transportation. Translation, directly under the flight path for an international airport. There was no A/C and the “queen” mattress creaked and had a dip in the middle, so my boyfriend and I ended up smashed together in the hot June night. By 5 am the flights started up and we had to close the window because of the noise. I think I got 3 hours of sleep. I called AirBnB in tears and was able to get my money refunded. We ended up going to a hotel.
Stayed with a dude and his wife when I went to Singapore. The guy was super friendly, he took me around town, and even let me hang with his dogs. I got home and decided to send him a friend request on Facebook. The picture on Facebook was with his wife and two dogs. I was planning on returning to Singapore that summer and wanted to stay with him again because of his hospitality. When I tried to message him I saw that he no longer had Facebook. I typed his name in on Google to try to find him again and was met with a news article that the guy was currently wanted for s*xually abusing two minors. The article said he was on the run from the authorities. I have never been so disgusted and frightened in my life. I haven’t used Airbnb since especially because they refused to refund me and didn’t conduct a background check on that monster.
Last weekend, my son (17) and I booked a stay-in at a house near Big Bear. It was listed as a “Whole house with a private entrance”. In the listing, it mentioned that the host lived in a MIL quarter in the back of the house. We arrive and check in at 4 and the host comes out to greet us and show us some features. She was very sweet, at this point. Since we had been hiking that day, we showered. We noticed that there was not much toilet paper in the bathroom. I texted the host to ask if there was another roll in the house and she decided my text meant she could enter our area. My son was wearing just a towel and I was getting dressed. She told us she couldn’t get us more tp because she had surgery last week. She said she “knew she should’ve stocked up” but she forgot and now she can’t drive due to her pain meds. We have empathy so we told her we could pick up some tissue paper on a trip to dinner. She then says, “Oh! Would you mind bringing me back some food, too?” Reluctantly, I said I would and told her it would have to be a pickup order because we were going to eat and then sightsee and we could get the tissue paper and food on the way back. She said she’d Venmo me when I returned for the full amount.
While we are at dinner, she texts and says “My pain medication refill is at Rite Aid. Can you pick it up, too?” Since I was going to get her tissue paper there, I said ok. Get to the pharmacy and he demands my driver’s license and $15 for her copay. I say I’m uncomfortable signing for a narcotic rx tied to my DL. I call the host and she begs. I get tissue paper, meds, and her dinner and we head back to the Airbnb. It’s now 9 pm. When we open the door, she is on the couch in our space. She says “My apartment was too warm so I thought I would wait here and chat with you guys while I eat”. I said, I appreciate your pain but my son and I are going to FaceTime his sister and go to bed. She gets livid and goes to OUR bathroom. She poked her head out and asked us to bring her a roll. I have her the whole package through the door. We wait 20 minutes before she comes out sobbing. My son offers to help her get to her door and I carry her bag of food and meds. We go to bed and are awakened at 3 AM by our angry host who says the dinner we brought gave her food poisoning. She wants a ride to an ER. I refuse. I tell her to call 911 and have an ambulance take her.
The next morning, before we check out, she hands me $5. The total I spent was: $6.79 for tp, $15 for her meds, and 22 for her meal. I told her we could round it to $40. She screams that I’m hustling her and makes a complaint to Airbnb.
We found 2 different hidden cameras with feeds going into the wall. 1 in the bedroom facing the bed/closet. 1 in the bathroom vent facing the mirror. I cut the cords and took the cameras with me as evidence and reported it to the police. They were unable/unwilling to do anything since it was his property, he had the right to record anything. They were unsure of the legal grey area and made an intimidating visit to him. We no longer use Airbnb and I always check for cameras in hotels now.
The worst part was that they had a playground in the backyard and advertised it as “kid friendly”. I sometimes want to go back and burn it to the ground. I settled with notifying all of his neighbors of the cameras
We arrived at our AirB&B in Austin to find that the master bedroom had been quite literally blocked off by the pool table. We thought ”Eh, no biggie, they were probably cleaning and forgot to scoot it back.”
So we scooted it back to center of the room – right into the four little divots in the carpet from where it had been sitting before.
The trip goes well, we leave – and a day later, I get an email from the property owner demanding payment for a professional balancing service to be performed on the pool table. Five hundred ding-a-lingin’ dollars.
How were we supposed to enter the master bedroom?
Were we expected to crawl over the table?
Does the owner legitimately expect me to believe he had the pool table professionally balanced in the corner of the room, with two of its edges against the wall?
After several days of going back and forth between the property owner and AirB&B Customer Support with these and other questions, my credit card was charged $500. So I called my credit card company, explained the situation and they recorded it as fraud.
It’s bad enough that there’s no heat source at all in the bedroom (and it’s late November in the Netherlands), but the only radiator in the house has a “smart thermostat” on it that the host controls through an app. I set it to 21 degrees and within two hours it’s back at 15 degrees so I have to keep re-setting it all day. And then at night it completely TURNS OFF. This place is a refrigerator half the time. I’ve never been at an Airbnb where I felt like I needed to go buy a space heater. F*ck the cheap-a** host – I don’t get why it has 5-star ratings across the board. It won’t for long.
Recently moved for my career and booked this rental for a month while I look at a more permanent place to actually call home.
I like to have my own space, so I booked this townhome that was listed as the entire townhome to yourself. When I checked in the host was here to show me the place, give me the WiFi information, and give me a key to the front door, etc. She mentioned a locked room upstairs that’s hers, but I figured that’s where she stays when her place isn’t being rented out. A week goes by and I’ve had the entire place to myself like advertised, until today.
I got a message earlier today from the host saying she is spending the weekend. The listing itself says the entire place to yourself, and nothing in the listing mentions her staying here at all even temporarily. To clarify, this isn’t some duplex situation or something similar. The host plans on staying in the bedroom that is across the hall from my bedroom. Effectively downgrading this rental from an entire place to yourself, to a private bedroom with a communal shower, living room, and kitchen.
I checked into an Airbnb in NYC. When I walked in there was a lot of religious imagery in the place, which is fine. The host was nice and explained the simple rules of the house. At the end of the explanation, the host said something to the effect of “And can we just acknowledge that if we all believe in the greatness of god, everything will get better”.
I’m an atheist, but I needed a place to stay so I was just like “Sure”. But I got the vibe that it may have been a nogo if I told him I didn’t believe in god.
I could envision a guest being way more creeped out by the vibe of Airbnb. Very culty.
Checked in for a two-week stay and discovered the host has a list of requests that are not in the online listing, so I only found out about it upon my arrival. The host requests that the guest leaves a full roll of toilet paper in each bathroom (we were given two per bathroom for our stay), two kitchen trash bags (we were given three), and one full roll of paper towels (we were given one). Basically, the host wants us to replace the consumables they provided for our stay. I understand the condiments which we have been replacing. But toilet paper, trash bags, and paper towels sound ridiculous. If anything, I think we should have been provided with more of these items considering the length of our stay.
My one and only Airbnb stay was at a nice condo in Long Beach, CA right on the beach. Once I got home, the hosts tried to charge me $7000 for damages that were 100% false. They claimed I broke their refrigerator, TV, and Internet, spilled oil on their couch, and stole their bathroom rugs. They also claimed I did drugs in their apartment.
Best part? I never met the host. Their housekeeper is the one that let me in.
When Airbnb requested photos, they didn’t send any. Imagine that.
My wife and I along with our 8-month-old daughter booked an Airbnb in Philadelphia and they cancelled at the time we arrived at the place.
8:30 pm in the middle of a city. The place had 16, 5-star reviews. We had received confirmation emails, and updates from the host in the weeks leading up to and including the day of within an hour of hour arrival. It left us completely stranded in this major city with no time to plan arrangements for ourselves. The owner stated Airbnb was supposed to have messaged us about the cancellation meanwhile they did not and had no problem holding onto our money.
Is this common? How can they get away with this. We received a refund but it just doesn’t seem like enough after leaving us stranded with an 8-month-old in central Philadelphia 🙁
I’ve been looking to book an Airbnb for my birthday weekend. I found a studio I really liked and asked the host a question about check-in times. He responded very promptly and answered my question but 30 minutes later when I went to book the property, he had raised the price is about $50 a night, for the dates that I chose. I checked other dates throughout the month and they were the same price as what my original dates were. Why do hosts do this? Do they really think people wouldn’t notice. I’m extremely irritated and now I have to find another property in my budget.