Booked by 3rd party

[faheem]

Hi @Rolf,

@Rolf

Contact the person who made the third-party booking, and have them add the students name to that persons profile. This is how airbnb suggests. Remember, without the student on the reservation You have no recourse, communication, or agreement with the student.

I’m unclear how that would work. Does this requires the third party booking person to also upload ID for his friend for the verification step?

[Rolf]

Not sure what airbnb does but I imagine since my place requires verified id etc, that airbnb collects it from the second person. Then, you would send this person all the info about your place (house rules, exceptions etc) and hope they pay attention.

I would not do this when someone books a third party booking, but I have known airbnb to suggest this as a ‘solution’. I think if someone knows this is against TOS and persists on booking my place, that is all I need to know about that person.

[amywyo]

My insurance only covers authorized guests… 3rd party bookings are not covered.

[Snowy]

My son has a mental illness but keeps to himself and is very responsible, I opened an account for him and write his requests and reviews. I go over all the rules with him and check out information, so far so good. I book these trips for him to aid in his mental health as requested by his psychiatrist. If there was ever any problem, I would take full responsibility for him.

[Rolf]

So, you are thinking that your third party booking of your son is a good thing? Do you reveal all this to the hosts?

This is a perfect example of what we hosts say ‘better suited to a hotel’…

[muddy]

@Snowy

I book these trips for him to aid in his mental health as requested by his psychiatrist. If there was ever any problem, I would take full responsibility for him.

Do you inform the host of this when you book?

[muddy]

@JJD

She said he has his own account, she just does the administration for him. That’s not a third-party booking.

Yes, but she also writes the reviews for him. How can someone write a legitimate review of somewhere they haven’t experienced for themselves? That seems fraudulent to me.

[HostAirbnbVRBO]

This was a critical catch @JJD.

I actually missed that, and I think several of the other posters did too.

We were reading about third party bookings, and I thought that this was another. But it’s not.

[HostAirbnbVRBO]

I suspect that she talks with her son about his experience and then weaves his thoughts, impressions and words into a written review.

Otherwise, it would be just a silly fiction.

Maybe the words missing for you but likely intention after

@Snowy

write his requests and reviews

are ‘after hearing his thoughts, impressions and experience.’

[muddy]

@JJD

It’s no different than the loads of people who have personal assistants or nannies write the review for them.

Well, I would consider those to be fraudulent reviews, too, unless they are just transcriptions of what the actual guest had to say and dictated.

[muddy]

I certainly understand that in this case, if her son has written communication issues, there is nothing wrong with her handling that aspect of her son’s bookings. And also nothing wrong with her writing the reviews, as long as they are based on what he has conveyed to her about his stay. Which I can’t presume either way unless Snowy clarifies.

[Thunderlake]

Happened to me as well, reservation made for elderly parents but daughters profile, it was quite innocent. I didn’t make a fuss and they were the sweetest couple but it did worry me if they were injured in any way if we would be covered by insurance.