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Airbnb alteration request errors

  • December 11, 2025
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Joseph Coker
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I still rather routinely have alteration request errors. For example, a recent guest is trying to alter the reservation from one guest to three guests, and the Airbnb platform is saying this will result in $111 decrease in the price of the reservation. There is nothing in our policies about this at all, and it makes no sense. I have two different reservations that are having issues like this. Anyone else?

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anthonyrallo
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  • December 12, 2025

I still rather routinely have alteration request errors. For example, a recent guest is trying to alter the reservation from one guest to three guests, and the Airbnb platform is saying this will result in $111 decrease in the price of the reservation. There is nothing in our policies about this at all, and it makes no sense. I have two different reservations that are having issues like this. Anyone else?

This is a known issue and I have reported it. My account has an open ticket about it but I think it’s important to pause the ability to make an alteration in HSPTB so hosts don’t accidentally use this and lose money. 

Here’s exactly what is happening ​@Joseph Coker 

 

Alteration Bug Decreasing Cost for Guests when changed in HSPTB


Eli Stoughton
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  • December 12, 2025

I still rather routinely have alteration request errors. For example, a recent guest is trying to alter the reservation from one guest to three guests, and the Airbnb platform is saying this will result in $111 decrease in the price of the reservation. There is nothing in our policies about this at all, and it makes no sense. I have two different reservations that are having issues like this. Anyone else?

 

There are outstanding problems with the alterations done on Hospitable. I recently had one instance where I did the alteration in Hospitable so that I would have essentially the same payout (just a difference of shifting the reservation by a day) but it ended up costing me a few hundred dollars in revenue. The message I received was to make all alterations directly on the OTA and not on Hospitable for now.


Petra Podobnik
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  • December 12, 2025

Just to double-check, ​@Joseph Coker, are you referring to Airbnb alterations within Airbnb itself, or through Hospitable?