Yes. I'm in charge of booking a ski trip for ~15 friends each year, and the amount of reading between the lines I have to do to make sure everyone has a comfortable place to sleep is crazy.

Tons of places count sofas/pullouts/day beds in the "Sleeps # of People", and they often count the temporary beds as space for 2. So you'll see places that say, Sleeps 16, but there are only 3 or 4 real beds.

Hotels have it right up front: 2 Queens. Period.

> Try to get refund from AirBnb for misprepresentation or deliberate omissions of negative points.

-I don’t know whether their policy differs from country to country, but after using AirBnb 30+ times traveling with wife and three kids in Northern/Central Europe, I’ve only had two issues - once the place we were to stay was double-booked (and we arrived last!); the other it turned out what was described as a ‘bedroom’ in the listing was a storage room with no windows, hot water tank, a few shelves packed with all sorts of junk and barely room for a dirty mattress on the floor.

In both cases AirBnb promptly decided I was due a refund, my only minor gripe being it took a couple of weeks before the money was actually refunded.

How is this different from a hotel? From rentals in general?

I guess you know what you're going to get if you're staying at a national chain that you've stayed at before, but there's not always one available or in your budget.

> Lots of property owners goes to great extends to make property look way better, bigger, nicer than it really is and to conceal obvious negative points that become apparent even before you are given the keys

Sadly that sounds like mort advertising of everything, so I can't say I'm surprised.

> Lots of property owners goes to great extends to make property look way better, bigger, nicer than it really is

As does every single hotel ever in existence.

> need to read "between the lines" of misleading representations of properties.

I've never had a problem with this, but I also don't bother staying anywhere that doesn't have a 4-star or better average. If you just set your filter at >= 4 stars, then these problems go away, and we also comb through the reviews of our top picks to make sure there's nothing unexpected. Consequently, we've had nothing but good experiences.