Individuals share Airbnb horror tales as man stays in ‘bathroom with a bed’
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irbnb horror tales are being swapped after one disgruntled visitor shared a photograph of what gave the impression to be a big toilet with a mattress in it.
David Holtz shared the image on Monday, attracting the eye of Twitter in addition to the corporate itself, which has supplied to assist kind out the difficulty. It is believed the room with out a view is in London however the unique itemizing has not been made public.
“Tfw [that feeling when] you arrive at your @airbnb and realize [sic] that the whole space is essentially just a large-ish bathroom that the host put a bed into,” he wrote.
In one other tweet, he continued: “After sleeping for 2 nights one foot away from a toilet, I’m ready to sleep for 26 nights in the jungles of Fiji.”
His put up sparked jokes and different tales of unhealthy experiences with Airbnb, together with one who mentioned she slept on a child cot.
An official Airbnb account replied to Mr Holtz: “Thank you for reaching out to us. Please send us a DM with the email address connected to your Airbnb account, so we can take a closer look.”
Mr Holtz has declined media requests past that he hopes the publicity may also help him seem as a contestant on US actuality sequence Survivor, a Bear Grylls-type present.
Airbnb informed the Standard: “Our customer service team has been in contact with this guest to provide support. We encourage guests to review all photos, as well as the description and reviews, prior to booking a stay.”
But he was not the one one to have had a nasty expertise with Airbnb. Here are a number of the greatest tales discovered on-line. The Evening Standard is unable to confirm the accounts past what has been shared.
‘I once slept on a baby cot in a hallway in NYC’
Helen Tran mentioned on Twitter that the expertise a number of years in the past had not put her off.
She added: “Airbnb is especially bad in New York, Montreal and Paris, in my experience. I think the latter two may have been a confusion in translations.
“I mean it’s kind of funny. Adventures of the 20s!”
Sulanga Ghosh added: “I had to shift out of a student hostel and landed in a similar bathroom!”
When in London…
Tina Nigro tweeted: “I’ve had one exactly like this in London. It was in 2016 I believe … left after 20 minutes (it was super dirty) and fortunately found another Airbnb …”
“This is awesome, man,” Fahir wrote. “You don’t have to get up when you need to pee.”
Jon Nilsen added: “Always wanted to brush my teeth in bed.”
Well, at the least…
Maile may at the least see the optimistic aspect of her personal expertise.
She wrote: “I stayed somewhere like this in NYC. Only difference was curtain between bed and toilet lol.”
‘I saw my kitchen in the background’
On Reddit there are numerous extra tales of Airbnb listings gone mistaken.
One nameless person mentioned: “I had one “tenant” make a porn. I didn’t find out until I was cruising [a Reddit thread] r/unexpectedsex (NSFW). I noticed my living room and kitchen.”
Another mentioned: “Had a guest rent my apartment for a music festival and my wife and I came by to check on the place and found that the guests were storing their drugs in my child’s crib. We bought a new crib after we kicked them out.”