5 Essential Tips to Avoid Booking a Bad Airbnb

Airbnb is the latest trend in comfort travel. It is a web-based platform where hosts facilitate travelers’ stays, by providing their space. The space can be a house, single room, or vast property.

This facility sometimes creates a bad experience if not booked it alarmingly.

Here are some tips by experts that we must remember before booking our Airbnb for comfort and safe stays.

1.  High quality doesn’t mean the unit is better

Sometimes, the property looks amazing and spacious, but this should not be the criteria for choosing it for a stay. Analyze the reason behind it. Be aware of the fact that sometimes the good photographic tricks are behind (wide-angle camera capture).

Remember that good staging does not always equal a comfortable stay. The space may look bigger due to photographic tricks by experienced photographers. A pro tip is to look keenly at the photograph. If the furniture, plants, or building looks unnecessarily elongated, it must be a trick photo.

Hence, quality is not the guarantee for comfort in this matter.

2.  Check the recent crowdsource feedback

Always review the feedback, but pay attention to the date. Feedback given two years ago might no longer be relevant, as circumstances and situations evolve over time.

Always check for recent feedback. If you can’t find any, consider it a red flag—it could indicate that the Airbnb has been vacant and neglected for months.

Crowdsource feedback helps to gain an idea about the cleanliness, food, rental location, and outside noise of the place.

3.  No reviews or ratings are alarming

Usually, when people feel satisfied and happy, they tend to leave good reviews, which they see as gratitude for their comfortable stay at the place. On the other hand, if they feel dissatisfied, then also they tend to leave bad reviews so that others may alert themselves and the place owner may also improve.

Hence, it is advised to check reviews and ratings, as zero reviews or ratings show that the Airbnb must have been vacant for some time. However, you can look for other properties of the host with positive reviews.

4.  Do not ignore the complaint about Wi-Fi

WiFi is a significant factor, without it half of our livelihood will not work. Yes, it’s a vacation, but still, from a safety point of concern, it is advised to check the wifi connectivity of the area and the property. It is thus advised to avoid the risk.

5.  How the owner responded to the reviews

If there are some bad reviews or no new reviews, you can ask the owner regarding this. How the owner responds to your queries is the answer to your decision. If there is a relaxed and comforting response, then it’s okay, but if there is some aggression or ignorance to the query, this may be an alarming sign to withhold the decision to rent the particular Airbnb.

How the owner responds is the greatest red flag to the decision you make.