It was our one and only experience with AirBnb thus far from a few months ago, and while we’ve staved off of utilizing them for years - there really wasn’t much of a choice in one of our trips recently due to the secluded destination we were traveling to as well as the high season for fall foliage. Most hotels were booked to the max and we had extremely limited options and decided to chance it with one of the properties offered on AirBnB. What I thoroughly enjoyed as a tough customer was the reviews provided per property in order to make a sound decision. Sure, I’m not going to take each and every review into consideration if they come off as unreasonable and/or silly but plenty of times low ratings are there for a reason, and especially when folks spend their hard-earned cash to have a good vacation and precious time with their loved ones. After much poring of reviews and accumulated time reviewing various properties, we finally settled on one and luckily it did not disappoint! The property was even better in person and the housecleaning was immaculate. We had no need for further assistance until after the trip, but other than that - for the two nights we’ve spent, we’ve had no complaints. We did leave a camping blanket behind by accident when we left the property and after much back and forth with the owner, we’ve soon realized it was a hassle to even get it shipped. We won’t rule out AirBnb in the future since we are dealing with individual folks but all in all, we can only rate it as neutral for the time being since it was our first experience. We’re not planning on making it into a habit because plenty of mishaps can go awry with vacation rentals like these and who has the time for that? Based on the endless reviews all across the Internet of negative experiences with AirBnb, we are still wary with choosing them whenever we travel. We have and always will stick with mainly hotels as our first option.
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