In the spirit of sharing terrible airbnb experiences, I recently had to endure Booking.coms immense incompetence. I was staying in Tarifa on the southern tip of Andalusia, and was driving up to Seville for a dinner, and dinners in Spain are late so I used Booking to get a room in the centre.

Before meeting my friend, I went by the room to drop off my stuff, but nobody answered the doorbell. There was a number for an apartment management company, so I wrote that down. This was around 9 o clock, and I spent the entire dinner trying to sort things out.

Got there at 1, getting really sleepy, turns out it was on the very edge of town, across the bridge and along winding coastal roads for another 45 minutes. When I eventually got there, the night porter was very friendly, but check-in took 40 minutes, almost passed out at reception.