‘It was my first outing with Airbnb.’ Any write-up that begins on a note like this you know where it is headed – yes, spiralling down. So before I proceed and make my case (the host had, while I was writing the Facebook post, threatened to give me such a terrible review which would make Airbnb tremble seeing my requisition for future stays – probably just like the crazy who totalled a pad which made Airbnb start with host insurance), I will stake a disclaimer: I had read ‘The Airbnb