Anyone have a bad Airbnb experience? Any remediation?

Had one time where the owner's roommate didn't know I was coming... thought I was about to get murdered when I walked through that door at 10pm

Did you know he had a roommate? Wtf. How can he do that?

So do y'all read all the reviews before booking these places? We read most of the reviews and never book a place without several reviews over 2 or 3 years. So far so good....well in Nola we had a repairman show up unannounced and as I was sizing him up another stranger showed up saying he was the neighbor there to let the repairman in if we weren't there...... Was legit but totally inappropriate.....and another owner that harrased me after I left an honest review.......again......another Nola place.....and then another Nola place that my wife refused to stay at as she said it was sketchy.....seemed fine to me......but we have stayed at places all over Europe and the western US and NYC with no issues.....just in Nola.

Sorry about that experience! I am a host and I always look after my guests' comfort. But I do have something to share though. I've had guests(honeymoooners) who seemed to have forgotten that they can actually make love without being too noiseyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy lol.

My place had a positive review before I booked and had 25+ reviews. My issues was the noise at night and I left a couple of days early. When it came time to do reviews I was not going to do one at first but once she left one I decided to since I had no clue what she said.

I have stayed in Italy and Spain with no issues. Just spent a week at a house in the states that was an unbelievable value for the $15/night I was paying. Little sketchy staying out in the country, but the owner was cool as shite and super communicative. I love the AirBNB experience.

That said, every time I stay in a hotel, I appreciate how convenient and seamless the experience is.

wow, sharing a place with some stranger, and actually paying decent prices??????

It's 2017, not 1980

You can rent a whole condo, townhouse,etc for the prices i have seen on airbnb per night.

I've never had a terrible experience, but I had something similar to yours. I don't like their definition of "entire place". I stayed somewhere that ended up being a renovated garage storage room in San Francisco. I had to walk through the actual front door of their house, through the foyer, and through the garage to get to it. It didn't have AC, like many places in San Francisco, but the window opened to the closed garage - not to the outdoors. So I was miserably hot.

Then their washer/dryer was located right outside the door to my place, so I woke to them doing laundry/talking on the phone right outside my door at like 7am.

Edit - I don't stay in AirBnb that is a room inside someone's home. It would make me too uncomfortable.

we had a place booked in Aruba but we couldnt check in until the second day, so we rented this small house for the first night to hunker down in. We checked in and were hanging out, and the door opens and another couple walks in. Neither spoke english ( they were from venezuela IIRC). Apparently there was an upstairs that the owners also rent that wasn't mentioned in the listing. Wasn't a huge deal but was a little uncomfortable with the language barrier and all. My g/f had been walking around naked slightly before that (it was hot)