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Meh Screen Obsessed Geeky Wreath
(homeandgarden.craftgossip.com)
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vikramgoyal
4y ago
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vikramgoyal
14y ago
> I don't know how Airbnb works, but my hunch is that an "instant booking" just means you get instant confirmation that you have, in fact, successfully reserved a room for a given set of nights It also means that I am instantaneously li
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vikramgoyal
14y ago
I agree. What I did to my family was risky by booking via AirBnB for such a short notice accommodation.. that is the whole point of the article...
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vikramgoyal
14y ago
Yes, but with the reservation only 24 hours old, I was hoping to get some sort of communication from the host by the time I was in the city. BTW, as I have mentioned in the article, I was already in Italy and going from Rome to Padua.
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vikramgoyal
14y ago
The AirBnB service made a bad situation worse by insisting that I pay for cancellation when I had no choice but to cancel as the host wasn't there! Again, it shows that AirBnB is risky thing to do when travelling with kids, in a foreign cou
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vikramgoyal
14y ago
I am. And that is why, I will not be using AirBnB to make the same mistake. :) That is the crux of my article.
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vikramgoyal
14y ago
Mother, not mother in law :). The host wasn't delayed. I had no idea what the host was doing.
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vikramgoyal
14y ago
Hi everyone.. I am the author of that post and just wanted to clarify a few things. First, the intention of the post was twofold: Blow off a little steam at the anger I was feeling and second, to highlight the risk someone is likely to face
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One simple but powerful reason to avoid using AirBnB: It is very risky
(craftgossip.com)
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vikramgoyal
14y ago
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