What You Should Do If You Find a Hidden Camera in Your Airbnb

You may have all seen in the news recently that a family found hidden cameras in their Airbnb. We have stayed in lots of Airbnb’s and never encountered a hidden camera or spy camera as some call it unless it was well hidden then we wouldn’t know! Unfortunately, this can happen. There are steps you can take to check when you arrive, although you shouldn’t have to do this, in today’s world it seems necessary. We will give you some tips on how to look for hidden cameras and what to do if you find a hidden camera in your Airbnb.

What’s Acceptable

Once we stayed in Airbnb that was owned by an Apple employee, the owner was extremely nice, friendly, and welcomed us to his home. The house was full of tech and gadgets (it took us 2 hours to figure out the front door smart lock), but that’s what you would expect from an Apple technician though. Later that night we noticed in the living area there was a camera above the cupboards which was on, this made us feel a little on edge even though we never did anything wrong.

We checked the Airbnb listing and the owner stated that he had a camera in the living room which he could access from his phone and that was the only area where there was a camera. This is perfectly fine as he disclosed on the listing there was a camera present. If an owner…