A YOUNG couple who stayed in a B&B where they were given breakfast and not charged extra for cleaning have realised Airbnb is a con.
Sophie Rodriguez and Josh Hudson were forced to book into the Sea Spray Guest House in Brighton after their Airbnb stay in a ‘luxury’ converted lifeboat was cancelled at the last minute.
Rodriguez said: “We were gutted, but we were in Brighton for a queer vegan music festival so we had to stay somewhere, and this was our only option.
“Everyone knows that life pre-internet was barely worth living, so we weren’t expecting much from a place which we had to physically walk inside to book, but we were very pleasantly surprised, once we’d got over our terror of speaking to another human.
“It was very clean, the bedroom wasn’t a cupboard photographed with a wide-angle lens to look bigger, and we didn’t have to feel guilty about contributing to the destruction of communities while doing f**k all about it.
“On top of all of that, they gave us breakfast and didn’t hit us with an exorbitant cleaning fee which was obviously taking the piss. We’ll definitely be coming again.”
Sea Spray Guest House owner Donna Sheridan said: “We’re glad they enjoyed their stay. Just don’t tell them about the ‘hipster twat’ premium we added to their bill.”
