Post by High Priestess on Jan 6, 2017 16:28:26 GMT
At issue: can Airbnb users depend on Airbnb rentals in China?
www.china.org.cn/travel/2017-01/05/content_40043265.htm
The US short-term accommodation rental company Airbnb has bumped into new problems in China as it inches its way into the gigantic market.
On Dec. 29, Airbnb user Mr. Qi told Beijing Business Today, a local newspaper, that the lodgings he booked in Osaka, Japan on the platform had been cancelled by the host unilaterally just two days before his trip. He.... booked another place on Airbnb only to have found out that the room was again dissatisfactory.
"It promised to be equipped with heating and air-conditioning but we found out that the room was too cold to stay in," Mr Qi recounted his unhappy experience. He hoped to cancel the booking but was declined and only got a day's refund after multiple negotiations.
This comes after another unhappy encounter of an Airbnb host who complained on her twitter-like Weibo account that a college student from Shanghai had ruined her apartment after a stay, during which the student had used the property as a set to shoot videos.
On Dec. 29, Airbnb user Mr. Qi told Beijing Business Today, a local newspaper, that the lodgings he booked in Osaka, Japan on the platform had been cancelled by the host unilaterally just two days before his trip. He.... booked another place on Airbnb only to have found out that the room was again dissatisfactory.
"It promised to be equipped with heating and air-conditioning but we found out that the room was too cold to stay in," Mr Qi recounted his unhappy experience. He hoped to cancel the booking but was declined and only got a day's refund after multiple negotiations.
This comes after another unhappy encounter of an Airbnb host who complained on her twitter-like Weibo account that a college student from Shanghai had ruined her apartment after a stay, during which the student had used the property as a set to shoot videos.
www.china.org.cn/travel/2017-01/05/content_40043265.htm