Maureen McCartney has been using Airbnb for her travel accommodations for about eight years. But she’s started using hotels instead, after her last few stays didn’t go so well.
For a recent visit to Seattle, she booked a basement suite that looked pretty good in the online listing — but in person, felt like something from the set of a Saw movie.
“It was damp down there. And they still had, like, the tools sitting there, like the circular saw, with the jagged edges on the wall, like a couple of them and other tools,” McCartney, who is from Victoria, B.C., told Cost of Living.
She’s not the only one. A Google search for Airbnb on Reddit surfaces complaints above anything else, including “Is Airbnb even worth it anymore?”; “Is this the downfall of Airbnb?” or “Staying in a terrible Airbnb right now [Canada].”
Then there’s one of the most recurring insults to injury: …