Originally Posted by
milepig
Airbnb reviews are only published after both the host and guest have reviewed each other. This probably inflates the rating.
If I had a bad experience it's likely the host knows it and by not reviewing me they avoid my review going public.
This is not the case. The guest review will be posted after fourteen days, come what may. The fourteen days is the time period during which reviews can be written and the delayed publication is designed so that a review, of either the owner or the guest, is not influenced by the other.