Title: I recently had a bad airbnb experience. During check in the host requested a cash deposit. this wasn&#x27;t explained in the listing or prior to arrival. i couldn&#x27;t check in and went elsewhere. Then i posted a review* giving these details.<p>Airbnb removed my below review because &quot;The review didn’t have enough relevant information to help the Airbnb community make informed booking or hosting decisions.&quot;<p>The rating of the place went back up after removal. The host still have &quot;superhost&quot; status.<p>Needless to say, i no longer trust airbnb reviews.<p>*my full review was:<p>I wasn&#x27;t able to check in because [Host] requested 300 USD security deposit during check in. I told her - I don&#x27;t have that much cash on me. - That is against AirBnB rules. - This should have been explained in airbnb listing. She can&#x27;t just surprise guests with this at the last minute. She didn&#x27;t listen. She said: &quot;my house my rules&quot;, &quot;you can&#x27;t tell me how to run my business&quot;, &quot;if you don&#x27;t like it, you can cancel&quot;. I told her if i cancel, i don&#x27;t get full refund so she should cancel. she said she won&#x27;t cancel and me not getting refund is not her problem. I think she counts on the fact that guests typically wouldn&#x27;t want to cancel in the last minute. you can see in some other reviews people had to agree to paying her this deposit. But i didn&#x27;t want to cave in and called AirBnB. Thankfully, airbnb fully refunded the payment and i was able to find another accomodation in the last minute. I don&#x27;t recommend this host unless you want a stressful start for your vacation.
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