I made this journal to document my travels to Riga and Warsaw. I had booked my flight several months back and piplined several chicks however, only one of them were from Latvia. Ya I know, big mistake. I ended up developing a moderate case of oneitis for her but managed to shake off most of it, and hopefully will rid my system of this disease once I meet more women in Latvia.
I flew out last night and for some reason had a crazy amount of anxiety visiting Riga. I don't know what it was, maybe I developed a fear or something after reading countless records of scams going on and also having some issues on airbnb for my host. Well now I'm official in Riga.
Day 1:
Things got off to very rough start today. I got fed incorrect information at the Warsaw airport for my connecting flight to Riga. I thought they would have fucked up my checked luggage and I would be without my clothes but luckily I resolved it in time. As I got closer and closer to my flight for Riga, my spider senses were tingling like crazy as if it knew something was up. Well they always say trust your intuition and that's what I probably should have done and made backup options.
I arrive in Riga around 6pm. The place was cold and dark and raining heavily, very depressing to say the least. I had booked two places via airbnb for Riga and Warsaw. I had some issues with the host with asking for some extra money for utilities after I paid for my apartment on Airbnb. It wasn't much so I let it go but asked her to change it on airbnb to reflect the new price. Things seemed fine until about 3 weeks ago. The women said that a previous tenant wanted to extend her stay and asked if I would like to be "upgraded" to a new apartment. I told her no thanks and didn't hear back until a week before I flew out inquiring if I needed airport transport and answering my question if she was going to be there to show me the place. She said yes and said it would cost me 7 euros for the transport. Alright so here's where things turn for the worse.
I show up at the airport and she's nowhere to be found after I get through clearance and pick up my luggage. I message her on airbnb via wifi and she's like I was already there but I'll do a second take. She shows up and appears friendly and everything appears fine. Then within two minutes she is like I have some good news and some bad news for you. I'm thinking "oh great" I've been had.
This bitch tells me the previous tenant still hasn't moved out yet and won't be back until next week but that she had two other "better places" for me. Classic bait and switch. I tried to remain calm but told her well I already paid for the place in advance so you can just move her things. She is like I can't do that but why don't we just go see these two places first and if you don't like them we'll cancel the reservation. I'm thinking shit, I'm in a foreign country and don't speak the local language, it's nearly completely black out, and this bitch is playing me for a fool. How the fuck am I going to get a room for the night with this crazy bitch driving me around god knows where.
I start to panic a little inside but don't show it. I also mention my friend in Riga who is going to show me around to try to tell her in a subtle way to don't fuck with me.
Anyways she takes me to the first place claiming its close by, its like an extra 5-10 min walk farther away and as expected it was crap. I was greeted by two old couple waiting inside. I immediately tossed the idea of staying there aside. There wasn't even a real bed, but a fucking futon and there was no bedroom neither. I had booked a place with 1 bedroom and also an additional bed. Needless to say, I was pissed and told her no! We started arguing a little in her car and I gave her shit and she is like if you don't like this place then I'm going to have to refund you the money and drop you off at some caferia or something. So then we show up at the next place.
I was greeted by some middle aged attractive Russian women. I didn't know if she was the owner or one of the hosts assistants but I didn't care. I just wanted what was promised to me. I had a look around and to my surprise the place actually looked better and bigger then the place I had rented. The attractive women showed me around the place, took her time to explain everything while my host stood idle. I think she herself was kind of surprised at how tidy and done up the place was. She had sent me pictures 1 week ago of the place according to her and it looked like crap so I immediately dismissed it.
This made me feel a little bit better but the place still seemed farther then the original place. The real estate agent mentioned about 20 minutes walk while my host said 15 minutes (obviously). There were a few issues with the place such as not having any pots and pans, and there wasn't any blankets there. I asked the host about that. My host looked at the other women and asks how come there's no blankets and bedsheets and she replies "no no, that wasn't apart of our deal, you never mentioned this to me." So from what I gathered her was that my host is a dishonest unethical bitch probably got a little worried about me making her refund my rent and her being dinged a penalty and bad review so quickly called up this women to give me this place and since it was so last minute she wasn't prepared yet. They both start arguing a little bit and then my host is like ok I'll take care of it and bring it to you. I'll go home and grab the stuff you need. At this point I'm thinking, I'm fucked either way, I can of course say no and have this women drop me off god knows where in the middle of the night and try to locate a wifi signal to get in touch with that girl who I developed a mild form of oneitis for to try and get her to help me and try to look for a hotel in the vicinity to spend one night and also call Airbnb and report this bitch or take the hit. The place is nice and looks bigger and better then the apartment that I booked and the other women seemed quite honest, she even offered to give me her number and when I asked her if she was the owner or something she said she's a real estate agent and is doing this for an Irish friend. I saw an irish booklet so it seemed more plausible.
I decided best not to try my luck this dark out without a sim card or having wifi so I took the hit. I was still extremely skeptical of the host but the other women made me feel abit more comfortable with the apartment. I also made sure to check and test out the stuff and she also took her time to show me and explain everything. It's a bit farther then I would have liked but I don't want to end up sleeping on the streets trying to sort this shit out. So I told the host alright, I'll do the switch and then guess what? This bitch again tries to pull a fast one. She is like there is a $250 deposit as well. I was like wtf! I told her airbnb already placed a hold for a security deposit already and that I wouldn't give her any money. Then I also told her that since she is really inconveniencing me because of the switch that she should take care of it. She paused and thought for a moment and then finally agreed.
I'm just about ready to strangle this bitch. She then says give her a minute while she and the other women sign their contract. The women gives me the keys, shows me where to dispose of garbage and then my host makes me go away with her to the car to grab my luggage and that other chick takes off. After returning back to my apartment, the host says she is going to go grab the rest of the things and then come back. I still don't even know where the fuck I am because she still hasn't given me the address yet. The other women told me but I didn't get a chance to write it because the host cut me off. I immediately go on facebook and message my oneitis girl. She says did I pay, don't pay. She is like I'm very busy right now but give me your address and I'll look for transport. We exchange a few more messages and she is like ok I hope everything will work out for you and then suddenly the host knocks on the door. I wait close to an hour before this bitch shows up with a few more items. She is like |"ok are we good?" I said I would feel comfortable if we have some of record on airbnb about this. So we agrees that she will send me a message on airbnb with the address of this new place and ask if I agree. Just then I forgot I was talking smack about her with the girl so I immediately minimize my browser and open up a different browser. Quick save!
I ask the host instead to change my reservation to reflect this new listing. My host doesn't have it on airbnb as a listing. Again bait and switch and probably because she doesn't want to deal with airbnb. We argue some more and she says "Look, I'm very busy and I don't have time to do this" so I end up relenting and saying fine just send me a message on airbnb and I'll reply to it. On my reply I made sure to right something like "something unfortunate came up and we agreed that the host would substitute me to this new place located at. It was the best I could do otherwise get a refund and be out there all alone at 10pm at night with pouring rain.
After we took care of that, the bitch took me to the grocery store to do some shopping and to help me get a sim card but the tech section was already closed. I think she was trying to get on my good graces so that I wouldn't leave her a bad review. She also asked if I could extend my stay and blah blah. I told her no but that in the future we could do this outside of airbnb because I know she is paying them a fee. I had a sneak peak of what airbnb is charging her (around 30%) when she went to send me a message on her account. I have no reasons to ever deal with this piece of shit human being again but I wanted to lessen the chance that she would further try to fuck me over by implying that I would look her up in the future early next year and we can skip airbnb and deal directly saving both of us money. She is like ya, make sure you write down my personal contact info and now that we both know each other and trust each other we can do it outside of airbnb.
She said tomorrow she would take me to a mall to purchase a sim card when she would come back with blinds for the windows.
What a fucking horrible night! This experience makes me not even want to ever step foot in this country ever again! I haven't sleep at all since yesterday morning and on the verge of my mental and physical exhaustion levels. I hope things turn out better. I'm going to go take a shower and hit the sheets. There's way too many things on my mind right now. I'm going to start scouting the area and become familiar with the place first before I start approaching chicks.
I flew out last night and for some reason had a crazy amount of anxiety visiting Riga. I don't know what it was, maybe I developed a fear or something after reading countless records of scams going on and also having some issues on airbnb for my host. Well now I'm official in Riga.
Day 1:
Things got off to very rough start today. I got fed incorrect information at the Warsaw airport for my connecting flight to Riga. I thought they would have fucked up my checked luggage and I would be without my clothes but luckily I resolved it in time. As I got closer and closer to my flight for Riga, my spider senses were tingling like crazy as if it knew something was up. Well they always say trust your intuition and that's what I probably should have done and made backup options.
I arrive in Riga around 6pm. The place was cold and dark and raining heavily, very depressing to say the least. I had booked two places via airbnb for Riga and Warsaw. I had some issues with the host with asking for some extra money for utilities after I paid for my apartment on Airbnb. It wasn't much so I let it go but asked her to change it on airbnb to reflect the new price. Things seemed fine until about 3 weeks ago. The women said that a previous tenant wanted to extend her stay and asked if I would like to be "upgraded" to a new apartment. I told her no thanks and didn't hear back until a week before I flew out inquiring if I needed airport transport and answering my question if she was going to be there to show me the place. She said yes and said it would cost me 7 euros for the transport. Alright so here's where things turn for the worse.
I show up at the airport and she's nowhere to be found after I get through clearance and pick up my luggage. I message her on airbnb via wifi and she's like I was already there but I'll do a second take. She shows up and appears friendly and everything appears fine. Then within two minutes she is like I have some good news and some bad news for you. I'm thinking "oh great" I've been had.
This bitch tells me the previous tenant still hasn't moved out yet and won't be back until next week but that she had two other "better places" for me. Classic bait and switch. I tried to remain calm but told her well I already paid for the place in advance so you can just move her things. She is like I can't do that but why don't we just go see these two places first and if you don't like them we'll cancel the reservation. I'm thinking shit, I'm in a foreign country and don't speak the local language, it's nearly completely black out, and this bitch is playing me for a fool. How the fuck am I going to get a room for the night with this crazy bitch driving me around god knows where.
I start to panic a little inside but don't show it. I also mention my friend in Riga who is going to show me around to try to tell her in a subtle way to don't fuck with me.
Anyways she takes me to the first place claiming its close by, its like an extra 5-10 min walk farther away and as expected it was crap. I was greeted by two old couple waiting inside. I immediately tossed the idea of staying there aside. There wasn't even a real bed, but a fucking futon and there was no bedroom neither. I had booked a place with 1 bedroom and also an additional bed. Needless to say, I was pissed and told her no! We started arguing a little in her car and I gave her shit and she is like if you don't like this place then I'm going to have to refund you the money and drop you off at some caferia or something. So then we show up at the next place.
I was greeted by some middle aged attractive Russian women. I didn't know if she was the owner or one of the hosts assistants but I didn't care. I just wanted what was promised to me. I had a look around and to my surprise the place actually looked better and bigger then the place I had rented. The attractive women showed me around the place, took her time to explain everything while my host stood idle. I think she herself was kind of surprised at how tidy and done up the place was. She had sent me pictures 1 week ago of the place according to her and it looked like crap so I immediately dismissed it.
This made me feel a little bit better but the place still seemed farther then the original place. The real estate agent mentioned about 20 minutes walk while my host said 15 minutes (obviously). There were a few issues with the place such as not having any pots and pans, and there wasn't any blankets there. I asked the host about that. My host looked at the other women and asks how come there's no blankets and bedsheets and she replies "no no, that wasn't apart of our deal, you never mentioned this to me." So from what I gathered her was that my host is a dishonest unethical bitch probably got a little worried about me making her refund my rent and her being dinged a penalty and bad review so quickly called up this women to give me this place and since it was so last minute she wasn't prepared yet. They both start arguing a little bit and then my host is like ok I'll take care of it and bring it to you. I'll go home and grab the stuff you need. At this point I'm thinking, I'm fucked either way, I can of course say no and have this women drop me off god knows where in the middle of the night and try to locate a wifi signal to get in touch with that girl who I developed a mild form of oneitis for to try and get her to help me and try to look for a hotel in the vicinity to spend one night and also call Airbnb and report this bitch or take the hit. The place is nice and looks bigger and better then the apartment that I booked and the other women seemed quite honest, she even offered to give me her number and when I asked her if she was the owner or something she said she's a real estate agent and is doing this for an Irish friend. I saw an irish booklet so it seemed more plausible.
I decided best not to try my luck this dark out without a sim card or having wifi so I took the hit. I was still extremely skeptical of the host but the other women made me feel abit more comfortable with the apartment. I also made sure to check and test out the stuff and she also took her time to show me and explain everything. It's a bit farther then I would have liked but I don't want to end up sleeping on the streets trying to sort this shit out. So I told the host alright, I'll do the switch and then guess what? This bitch again tries to pull a fast one. She is like there is a $250 deposit as well. I was like wtf! I told her airbnb already placed a hold for a security deposit already and that I wouldn't give her any money. Then I also told her that since she is really inconveniencing me because of the switch that she should take care of it. She paused and thought for a moment and then finally agreed.
I'm just about ready to strangle this bitch. She then says give her a minute while she and the other women sign their contract. The women gives me the keys, shows me where to dispose of garbage and then my host makes me go away with her to the car to grab my luggage and that other chick takes off. After returning back to my apartment, the host says she is going to go grab the rest of the things and then come back. I still don't even know where the fuck I am because she still hasn't given me the address yet. The other women told me but I didn't get a chance to write it because the host cut me off. I immediately go on facebook and message my oneitis girl. She says did I pay, don't pay. She is like I'm very busy right now but give me your address and I'll look for transport. We exchange a few more messages and she is like ok I hope everything will work out for you and then suddenly the host knocks on the door. I wait close to an hour before this bitch shows up with a few more items. She is like |"ok are we good?" I said I would feel comfortable if we have some of record on airbnb about this. So we agrees that she will send me a message on airbnb with the address of this new place and ask if I agree. Just then I forgot I was talking smack about her with the girl so I immediately minimize my browser and open up a different browser. Quick save!
I ask the host instead to change my reservation to reflect this new listing. My host doesn't have it on airbnb as a listing. Again bait and switch and probably because she doesn't want to deal with airbnb. We argue some more and she says "Look, I'm very busy and I don't have time to do this" so I end up relenting and saying fine just send me a message on airbnb and I'll reply to it. On my reply I made sure to right something like "something unfortunate came up and we agreed that the host would substitute me to this new place located at. It was the best I could do otherwise get a refund and be out there all alone at 10pm at night with pouring rain.
After we took care of that, the bitch took me to the grocery store to do some shopping and to help me get a sim card but the tech section was already closed. I think she was trying to get on my good graces so that I wouldn't leave her a bad review. She also asked if I could extend my stay and blah blah. I told her no but that in the future we could do this outside of airbnb because I know she is paying them a fee. I had a sneak peak of what airbnb is charging her (around 30%) when she went to send me a message on her account. I have no reasons to ever deal with this piece of shit human being again but I wanted to lessen the chance that she would further try to fuck me over by implying that I would look her up in the future early next year and we can skip airbnb and deal directly saving both of us money. She is like ya, make sure you write down my personal contact info and now that we both know each other and trust each other we can do it outside of airbnb.
She said tomorrow she would take me to a mall to purchase a sim card when she would come back with blinds for the windows.
What a fucking horrible night! This experience makes me not even want to ever step foot in this country ever again! I haven't sleep at all since yesterday morning and on the verge of my mental and physical exhaustion levels. I hope things turn out better. I'm going to go take a shower and hit the sheets. There's way too many things on my mind right now. I'm going to start scouting the area and become familiar with the place first before I start approaching chicks.