FabSwingers.com forum: An extra visitor behind the wall

By *og-Man OP Man
3 days ago

somewhere

Irish family 'terrified' after finding man behind wall at Booking dot com rental property

News headlines and the woman spoke on liveline about it

Funny thing is you can see the man staring out his front door in the pictures of the house online and he looks weird

Yet another reason to use hotels instead of an airbnb for meets on fab

Anyone any tales they'd like to share about bad or funny experiences in an airbnb or hotel

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By *riendly_fun_guyMan
3 days ago

Dublin

Works both ways - and everything depends on the ppl involved… The only time I ever claimed on my insurance to replace stuff damaged in my Airbnb was after an arranged afternoon meet by a couple - I didn’t know this when they booked. It was only after, first they asked to arrive early then stayed only for a couple of hours and left.

The place was a mess!

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By *he KakapoMan
3 days ago

A nice rock

"Works both ways - and everything depends on the ppl involved… The only time I ever claimed on my insurance to replace stuff damaged in my Airbnb was after an arranged afternoon meet by a couple - I didn’t know this when they booked. It was only after, first they asked to arrive early then stayed only for a couple of hours and left.

The place was a mess! "

Sorry but thats not working both ways.

Thats unfortunate but it is the cost and danger of short term renting to strangers. And while unacceptable is expendable.

Having a host hidden behind a makeshift partition is a complete breach of trust and safety

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By *he KakapoMan
3 days ago

A nice rock

*expectable

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By *ealitybitesMan
3 days ago

Belfast

I stayed in an Airbnb a couple of years ago with a fab friend just for one night.

It was an old farmhouse cottage with an unusual layout and while it had been advertised as a one bedroom cottage it was pretty obvious that it was actually a 3 bedroom house but the other bedrooms were locked.

That in itself raised a few red flags but while we were there I read more reviews on the place to see what experiences others had had.

Well down the list of reviews were half a dozen talking about the host turning up and letting himself in at 11pm and later.

None of the more recent reviews had mentioned anything like that or I would have booked somewhere else.

We joked that he was maybe hiding in one of the locked bedrooms and would be wandering about during the night.

We never spoke to him during our stay at all so when he posted a review on Airbnb a couple of days later we found it very creepy when he described us as a lovely couple and said it had been great talking to us and it looked like we had really enjoyed ourselves in his house.

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By *og-Man OP Man
3 days ago

somewhere

He practically gave ye a veri

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By *B and VicsCouple
3 days ago

Co Antrim

"He practically gave ye a veri "

That's hilarious!

The whole thing is very scary.

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
3 days ago

Lucan

Was he just living in a secret room in the house or is there something more sinister here? He was hardly standing there for hours waiting for them to come in, was he?

Also, booking.com is utter shit in terms of reviews. Negative reviews are always buried so far that it's hard to find them. I almost stayed in two places on the same weekend a few years ago, and both were absolute cess pits. The first one, I left and slept in the car instead, and the second I ended up booking a hotel but far away when I realised how awful it was. Both had really positive reviews. I left negative reviews for both but couldn't find them a few days later when I went back looking for them. Fuck Booking.com.

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By *og-Man OP Man
3 days ago

somewhere

‘Terrifying’: Woman says landlord was hiding behind wall of Wexford holiday home https://jrnl.ie/7109317

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
3 days ago

Lucan

"‘Terrifying’: Woman says landlord was hiding behind wall of Wexford holiday home https://jrnl.ie/7109317

Full story "

"Hiding behind a wall" makes it sound a bit more salacious than "living in a secret room in the house" would.

Neither is acceptable of course, but one is much less seedy than the other.

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