u/Kennydoe

This is a "What would you do?" question.

We made this res back in January 2026. We chose it due to its proximity to a friend we're visiting, and the price was "Good" for the neighborhood.

The host just messaged on the platform and asked if we could talk on the phone. I put my number in the app, and I guess the app just makes a "Call Guest" button without disclosing my number.

The host was a nervous sounding young woman who wanted to let me know that the guest who was in there until today or yesterday was making cookies in the oven and a fire started. She said the apartment is okay, but they had to remove the rug, and the stove & cooktop aren't operable.

She offered the opportunity to cancel, except that there's nothing available for this weekend in Chicago that comes close to what we paid in January. I asked if there would be a partial refund if we choose to stay anyway, and she said no, best they could offer is an early check in at 2pm (It's usually 3pm), or we could just cancel with no penalty. I told her i was concerned about the apartment smelling like smoke, or there being ash/residue in the air. She said there were no problems like that.

I don't love that she went around the platform to contact me, for startters, but it's now 8:30pm, and we are getting on a plane in the morning at 8am, so I don't have much time.

What do you all think I should do, and should i document the phone call on the platform?

I am getting ready to do a collab music stream with a streamer whose communities don't have a ton of crossover.

We will be performing together as a duo in their studio, with their microphones, instruments etc. It will be their regular stream on their channel.

If I want to stream it to my channel, I can just call up her stream window capture w/audio - that's the logical way in my mind.

But I've seen streams where Twitch has both streamer tags/links, and it advertises on the platform that "These 2 streamers are streaming together". That's the part I don't understand.

Can someone help with this?

We're in the second week of a 4-week stay in the Baltics. No complaints at all about the apartment, the location, etc. The hosts have been fine, everything is good except that the headline for the property says 'Serviced Apartment in {City name}'.

When I asked the host about cleaning, they said it's not included, and it will be 50 Euros per cleaning to clean this average-sized apartment, however many times we want. There was no "Cleaning fee" line on the invoice.

There is no doorman or human security, which we do not care about at all; the property and building are behind code-locked doors, and it's not a high-crime city.

We paid a bit over what we'd generally spend based on the fact that it was supposed to be a serviced apartment, with the assumption that there would be cleaning included, other than the beginning/end of the stay. I'm left wondering what exactly about this apartment does the host consider "Serviced"? Do I have this definition wrong?

I'm also wondering if it's something worth addressing with the host or with Airbnb, or just something I should mention in the review (without subtracting stars).