What You Should Know About Airbnb And Bed Bugs
Alana Korol
March 15, 2017
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past five years, chances are you’ve heard of Airbnb. This online accommodation-sharing platform has revolutionized the travel industry in recent years. Rather than forcing travelers to pay for small hotel rooms in their destination city, Airbnb provides an affordable and arguably more interesting alternative.
Bed Bugs Are A Real And Present Danger For Travelers
Through the Airbnb platform, ordinary people with a guest bedroom, vacation property, or entire house to share can rent their unused space out to people who are looking for accommodations in that location. The website offers everything from villas in Italy to tiny studio apartments in Chicago. It may seem weird, but millions of people have embraced the idea. For one thing, it’s often far cheaper than a hotel and you often get more space/special amenities. For another, it’s just cooler, especially in the eyes of today’s adventurous hipsters.
“...The opportunity to stay in someone’s charming home feels like a more authentic way to experience a new city, as opposed to checking into a cookie-cutter chain hotel,” explains Yahoo Travel.
Here’s the big, often ignore a problem with Airbnb. You really don’t have any idea about the hygienic practices of the people who are renting out their rooms and homes. While the Airbnb platform goes a long way to make sure that you’re not renting from an ax murderer and that the property actually looks as advertised, these factors are only skin deep. In several cases, exhausted travelers have woken up in an otherwise clean-looking Airbnb only to discover that their limbs were a midnight snack for bed bugs.
“Our host in Los Angeles had terrific reviews. He also had bedbugs. Our first morning, we woke up and saw a critter the size of an apple seed crawling on the duvet. A frantic Google image search later, we had booked a hotel, sent the host a series of as-yet unanswered messages, and abandoned the apartment,” continues the author of the Yahoo Travel piece.
And that’s not even the worst part of the story.
What every traveler should know about Airbnb is that it offers little in the way of recourse for guests who have a negative experience with bed bugs. If you discover that the apartment or condo that you booked is infested with bed bugs, Airbnb has no policy requiring the host to refund your money.
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