WTF, Where's Our Rental Condo?
Jul. 9th, 2022 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerColorado Travelog #14
Telluride, CO - Monday, 4 Jul 2022, 3pm
A few minutes ago we rolled into Telluride, the core of our trip to Colorado this week. Hawk pulled out her phone to check the address of our vacation rental in town. (She couldn't do that for most of the past hour because we're in a remote area.)
"WTF?" she shouted. "The map says it's 39 miles away!"
She double-checked. The address was, indeed, in the town of Ridgway, Colorado, 50 minutes away.
"How, exactly, does AirBnB think that's 'minutes' away from Telluride?" I asked rhetorically. "It's 39 miles away. There's a 14,000' peak between here and there."
Hawk started checking through the records of her booking months ago to determine where the mixup happened. I told her I was willing to go to the mats on this with AirBnB. This kind of thing is an outrageous bait and switch.
Alas, it wasn't a bait and switch. It was operator error. Well, it was a bit of bait and switch. AirBnB advertised it as "near" Telluride but they did also disclose that it's in Ridgway. They just didn't give the exact address at booking time. Hawk should have double checked how "near" Ridgway was.
BTW, the 14,000' peak between here and Ridgway is Mt. Sneffels.
"Mount Sniffles?" Hawk asked.
"More like Snuffles," I sneered. We're blocked by a mountain named for an annoying cold symptom.
Telluride, CO - Monday, 4 Jul 2022, 3pm
A few minutes ago we rolled into Telluride, the core of our trip to Colorado this week. Hawk pulled out her phone to check the address of our vacation rental in town. (She couldn't do that for most of the past hour because we're in a remote area.)
"WTF?" she shouted. "The map says it's 39 miles away!"
She double-checked. The address was, indeed, in the town of Ridgway, Colorado, 50 minutes away.
"How, exactly, does AirBnB think that's 'minutes' away from Telluride?" I asked rhetorically. "It's 39 miles away. There's a 14,000' peak between here and there."
Hawk started checking through the records of her booking months ago to determine where the mixup happened. I told her I was willing to go to the mats on this with AirBnB. This kind of thing is an outrageous bait and switch.
Alas, it wasn't a bait and switch. It was operator error. Well, it was a bit of bait and switch. AirBnB advertised it as "near" Telluride but they did also disclose that it's in Ridgway. They just didn't give the exact address at booking time. Hawk should have double checked how "near" Ridgway was.
BTW, the 14,000' peak between here and Ridgway is Mt. Sneffels.
"Mount Sniffles?" Hawk asked.
"More like Snuffles," I sneered. We're blocked by a mountain named for an annoying cold symptom.
