07-20-2025, 09:51 PM
In June I had a cancellation (1 week) and I was disappointed. June is high season and it was a last minute cancellation so the odds of someone else booking was really low. At the last minute (2 days prior) someone started asking information (not booking request) for that 1 week. We check his reviews and some are positive but some were red flags. We answered a question the potential guest had which resulted in him asking more questions, which we are fine with. But then within minutes he started to demand we book an event for him. Our gut feeling was that the guy is trouble so we blocked the dates so he could not book and advised him to contact a travel agent or stay at a hotel with a concierge for this requests. Today we are reading his reviews again and we see that he booked with someone else and he caused a lot of problems. Very demanding, treating the host like his personal assistant and requesting refunds over silly things.. so we dodged a bullet! We didn't get any money for that 1 week because nobody else booked, but we also avoided what could have probably been a disaster. These guests that have crazy demands during the "booking request" are just not worth it.