Alexandria E.
sonder will try to scam you out of money for damages already present in room; awful service and room not clean upon checkin
i just stayed at a sonder and they charged us an additional $111. at first they said it was for “damages” from “paint marks on walls” but when we pressed them for photos of the damage they didn’t have any. they then turned around and said it was for cleaning for “excess mess” and sent photos of the bed not being made with some towels in the floor, dishes in sink, and some wrappers/soda cans left on counter/bedside table. this was odd to us because they don’t have a cleaning checklist or policy like airbnb and i’ve never had a hotel charge me for that sort of stuff. they even go as far as to say not to worry about taking out trash when checking out because they’ll “do it for you.” they also didn’t provide us with dish soap and only gave us one small garbage bag for our 3 night stay. when we first arrived on property there was food left in the cabinet from prior guests and they didn’t do anything to remedy that when we notified them of it immediately via their app chat (eg offer to clean, move us to different room, or reimburse partially like a hotel probably would). they also were hard to get a hold of for more towels/hangers for the room and tried to log our requests for the items as “complete” despite never actually bringing them. they told us they weren’t sure if or when they would bring us the items despite reassuring me before the stay that they had staff on site to assist with those matters. they did eventually bring more towels but never the hangers. customer service was terrible trying to get our money back from. very disorganized communication with different stories/explanations for why our money wasn’t being refunded coming from each representative i spoke to via email, text, app, and phone.

