Psycho neighbor... Review (as a guest)?

[konacoconutz]

@chrlsrchrdsn

ABB does not show your review until after the end of the review period, just as you don’t get to see your host’s review until you both submitted a review or the time period is over.

Oh brother… Does anyone else want to answer this? After about the millionth time, I am just done explaining.

[konacoconutz]

@Barthelemy

So, this is the review I intend to post.

On our third night, we ran into a hostile woman we had never met before. She would not let us access the building and our apartment. (Host name) came to the location and after an argument with his neighbor, requested we leave. (Host name) told us he has an ongoing issue with her. We had to pack in a hurry and vacate. Though (host name) compensated us, we were left on our own on the streets of a foreign city, by a rainy night, with our luggage. We missed our dinner reservation and were not able to find another restaurant. We decided to abort our vacation and return home. We are discrete and respectful guests and still wonder why we had to leave.

What do you all think ?

PERFECT… do not change a thing. It is NOT too long.

[anon67190644]

@konacoconutz. You just need a little text document to drag into a reply window.

[konacoconutz]

Huh? I don’t follow??? [quote=“smtucker, post:43, topic:9575”]
@konacoconutz. You just need a little text document to drag into a reply window.
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[anon67190644]

@konacoconutz

Oh brother… Does anyone else want to answer this? After about the millionth time, I am just done explaining.

In response to this…

[Barthelemy]

@chrlsrchrdsn

just as you don’t get to see your host’s review until you both submitted a review or the time period is over.

@chrlsrchrdsn, I know that, but forum regular @konacoconutz has a theory which sounds valid regarding reviews.

In cases like mine, where the other party knows you are likely to leave a bad review, the other party will wait and hope you do not review them. If you leave a review, they will retaliate with a bad review cause without reading it, they know you likely left a bad review

[ccportland]

Goodness. I’d say something like “While the host was friendly, we were forced to cancel our reservation early due to an ongoing issue with a neighboring property.” Give him 4 stars if you want but I’d be p*ssed if this happened to a previous guest and I booked before it was resolved. n fact, this person shouldn’t even host until it’s resolved. I’m so sorry, what a crappy experience.

[chrlsrchrdsn]

The reason they gave you cash was so they would not have to use the AirBNB interface to cancel the rest of your stay, which would automatically ding them. This means this person has experience doing this. This also means others following you will experience the same issue. You should use the URL to this topic in your review so people can see the whole background. If you have 5 great reviews and one bad one. You’re fine. BUT next time FORCE them to cancel via AirBNB so it dings them!

[Helsi]

Why would he want to do that?

This is a closed forum for hosts wanting to let off steam and ask for advice.

BNB doesn’t allow links and even if they did it wouldn’t work for a closed forum

[smartbnb.io]

The URL to this topic will obviously not work, and will be filtered out by AIrbnb.

@Helsi

BNB doesn’t allow links and even if they did it wouldn’t work for a closed forum

This is not a closed forum: it is as public as it can be

[smartbnb.io]

This is a masterpiece. It is a fair and balanced review, informative and detailed while remaining factual. Moreover, it does good in that he will be forced to address this issue for good.

[Helsi]

oops you’re right - mixing it up with hidden forum on here