2023-09-08 07:41:00
the essential With no response from the owner, the couple called the police who, following forcing entry to the apartment, discovered that the woman was dead inside.
The vacation quickly turned macabre for a Spanish couple. While they had booked accommodation in Malta for their vacation, a family had a strange surprise when they arrived there. They discovered the owner who had rented the accommodation to them dead inside, reveals Spanish radio Chain Being.
However, everything looked idyllic until two days before departure. The couple, originally from the Canary Islands, communicated fluently with their future host and the comments on the Airbnb platform were positive. It was once they arrived on the island that the trouble started.
While the customers want to collect the keys, radio silence from the owner. They first believe it to be a scam, and are surprised, following long discussions over several months with their host. The couple, aged 78 and 80, decide to go directly to the reserved apartment, but once more, their calls go unanswered.
Hospitalized then sent home
Finding themselves without a solution, they finally decided to rent a hotel room while investigating the neighborhood to find the person who had rented them the accommodation. They end up finding her address, but the lady is not there and her absence has not bothered her neighbors. One of them nevertheless remembers seeing an ambulance taking an elderly person away a few days earlier.
The couple then learned at the hospital that the lady in question, who had been hospitalized for a while, had returned home. He urges the neighborhood to contact the police. This is where the police, who forced their way into the apartment, discovered the owner dead inside.
An unfortunate situation for which Airbnb refused to provide a workaround, even though they offered refunds to unhappy customers. The Spanish couple’s vacation nevertheless ended well: a local real estate agency offered them alternative accommodation.
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