Anonymous
Post 06/08/2025 08:45     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
If they aren't steeling your identity, a friend of theirs is.

Why would you comply with this.

AirBnB is total a FAFO system.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 17:30     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
You are asking to be a victim of identity theft. Cancel ans choose another place.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 09:48     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The requests from the host are bizarre and I would not have complied. Agree with others that I’ve moved away from Airbnb (the fees are out of control, and they’re ruining livability in major cities in Europe and increasingly here). I mostly stay in hotels now.

But OP, did you arrive and get into the place? What’s the update?


OP. It got worse, unfortunately.

The listing said 2 parking spaces. The apartment is in a high rise with reserved parking in a garage. No indication of what our parking spots were.

After finally getting ahold of someone to figure out where to park, they said parking is an additional $30 per day. None of this was indicated in the listing. They said they would send a link so I could pay for parking and they would get a parking FOB to me in the morning.

Now I'm paying $50 a day to park in a different garage down the street, and they never even sent me the payment link to get parking.

Very frustrated with the whole experience. Has anyone gotten a refund or even partial refund from AirBNB? I feel like they should at least cover the cost of my parking.


Take screen shots of the listing.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 09:44     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure you have to give names at a hotel as well. Seems reasonable to me to at least take down names.


No you don't.


Yes you do and each room needs a separate person making the reservation. If you were say staying in four hotel rooms, four different people would have to give their information including a credit card. You also have to put the ages of the people staying with you and how many.


New poster. Where do you book with these strange rules? Never had issues booking 2 hotel rooms. And never needed to add names other than mine, except when it was someone else checking in before I arrive.


So when you stay at a beach hotel with friends, you just book their rooms for them and take responsibility for their stuff? I doubt you've ever booked a room and taken responsibility for anyone who was not in your family.


That’s a completely different situation and that’s not a hotel rule. That’s you not trusting your friends to pay for themselves or not trash the hotel room and leaving you with the bill

I travel with either family or people I know well enough that I don’t think twice about putting their rooms in my name.

As I wrote above, the only time I add names is when someone other than me is arriving first and doing check in.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 08:08     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Sounds like a scam. Repost them and only use proper hotels from now on
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 08:05     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Repeat after me: you can stay in hotels.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 07:39     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Sounds like they are trying to commit Identity theft.
Anonymous
Post 06/07/2025 01:47     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Anonymous wrote:The requests from the host are bizarre and I would not have complied. Agree with others that I’ve moved away from Airbnb (the fees are out of control, and they’re ruining livability in major cities in Europe and increasingly here). I mostly stay in hotels now.

But OP, did you arrive and get into the place? What’s the update?


OP. It got worse, unfortunately.

The listing said 2 parking spaces. The apartment is in a high rise with reserved parking in a garage. No indication of what our parking spots were.

After finally getting ahold of someone to figure out where to park, they said parking is an additional $30 per day. None of this was indicated in the listing. They said they would send a link so I could pay for parking and they would get a parking FOB to me in the morning.

Now I'm paying $50 a day to park in a different garage down the street, and they never even sent me the payment link to get parking.

Very frustrated with the whole experience. Has anyone gotten a refund or even partial refund from AirBNB? I feel like they should at least cover the cost of my parking.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 22:43     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
The requests from the host are bizarre and I would not have complied. Agree with others that I’ve moved away from Airbnb (the fees are out of control, and they’re ruining livability in major cities in Europe and increasingly here). I mostly stay in hotels now.

But OP, did you arrive and get into the place? What’s the update?
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 21:32     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure you have to give names at a hotel as well. Seems reasonable to me to at least take down names.


No you don't.


Yes you do and each room needs a separate person making the reservation. If you were say staying in four hotel rooms, four different people would have to give their information including a credit card. You also have to put the ages of the people staying with you and how many.


Np no this is not a thing. Where are you staying? You might want to find a new place to book through since thats highly unusual and very strange.


+1 PP is so adamant and she's wrong. I book multiple rooms for my family all the time. I've also booked rooms for grandparents too. All in my name and one credit card. I might add the grandparents name to the room so they can check in without me, but that's it.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 17:13     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure you have to give names at a hotel as well. Seems reasonable to me to at least take down names.


No you don't.


Yes you do and each room needs a separate person making the reservation. If you were say staying in four hotel rooms, four different people would have to give their information including a credit card. You also have to put the ages of the people staying with you and how many.


Np no this is not a thing. Where are you staying? You might want to find a new place to book through since thats highly unusual and very strange.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 16:59     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Anonymous wrote:AirBnB is like everything else. Works well for awhile and then it doesn't.

It was nice while it lasted but I am back to hotels and always booking direct and usually only for one night. That way if it wasn't a good choice, I can move along.

And stay away from third party sites - like Booking - they are the plague, full of scammers now.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 16:58     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Anonymous wrote:It matters if this is in the US or another country. They required passports in Italy last summer but it was stated on their listing that they would be asking for this. Employer info is over the top.


Same experience with AirBnBs in Italy.
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 15:49     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
It’s the employer question that is ridiculous not acceptable

OP what are you still using them?

Just get a hotel room,
Anonymous
Post 06/06/2025 15:49     Subject: Horrible experience with AirBNB.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure you have to give names at a hotel as well. Seems reasonable to me to at least take down names.


No you don't.


Yes you do and each room needs a separate person making the reservation. If you were say staying in four hotel rooms, four different people would have to give their information including a credit card. You also have to put the ages of the people staying with you and how many.


New poster. Where do you book with these strange rules? Never had issues booking 2 hotel rooms. And never needed to add names other than mine, except when it was someone else checking in before I arrive.


So when you stay at a beach hotel with friends, you just book their rooms for them and take responsibility for their stuff? I doubt you've ever booked a room and taken responsibility for anyone who was not in your family.

NP here and not a fan of AirBnB, and I’m not sure why the hotel comparison is relevant, but tons of people book a hotel room that they’re going to split with a friend. More relevant is that tons of people, including me, also sign leases for vacation homes which will house large groups, not all of whom are family members. This is how we vacationed for years pre-kids and when our kids were little - with 5/6 other couples in a gigantic house. No one asked for names of the other parties, much less needed IDs or other information that should be kept private in almost all circumstances.