We, ahem, tried to book in Vancouver BC, but had a few issues. Since I know the airbnb folks hang out here, I will elaborate: We tried to book a room and found that the slow response time from our candidate people made it impossible to fix up a place in short enough notice.<p>However, there was something in this process which might have alienated the spouse from airbnb forever (much, much more than the convenience/ time lag factor): We exchanged emails with the airbnb people, who were quite helpful, and in one of them said something like "the owner pulled back from the agreement at the last minute because he lost power from a snowstorm, which is quite reasonable." Or something to that effect. A couple of weeks later, the owner emailed us, basically screaming "why did you post such nasty things about me?" Turns out someone from airbnb had put "the owner pulled back from the agreement at the last minute" onto the owners feedback page, with neither our permission nor any context (like, the power went out because of the snowstorm). My wife emailed airbnb and the comment got pulled, but it didn't leave a great taste in our mouth.<p>I may not be remembering <i>exactly</i> the exchange, but it was pretty close to that. If you ever want my wife to consider airbnb again, it will probably take some cold hard cash.<p>Otherwise, I love the idea!