If you're traveling as 4 people or fewer and staying less than a week, just go for a hotel. Less hassle, reasonable expectation of consistency wherever you go, housekeeping and breakfast included, and no outrageous fees.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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There are a lot of hotels where you can get apartment-esque amenities without the bullshit. They’ve made efforts to make hotels feel more at home and it’s nice.
The only thing missing from hotels is a private common area for groups. If they had more hotels with 2/3 bedrooms around a living space I would never airbnb again.
I saw a hotel commercial recently that was promoting the idea of using the door between rooms so people could hangout. Thought that was interesting since those doors have always felt like more of an afterthought.
I saw that in hostels.
Just stay at a hotel.
Similar price, no bullshit cleaning instructions (then cleaning fees on top), no immoral monitoring, consistent experience.
AirBnB was at best a cute gimmick for a few years. Now it's a measurably worse experience.
The idea of "I've got a spare room that I'll briefly rent out for cheap" is nice, but as all nice things, it inevitably gets ruined by twats on all sides. Likewise with ridesharing apps that could serve the use case "I'm heading that way, maybe someone needs a ride that way too", but end up a shadier version of Taxis.
And with that, I think my time using Airbnb is officially over. Don't get me wrong, this is far from the only reason, but hotels are already basically the same price (often cheaper) and come with so much less drama and privacy issues.
I've got two trips booked on Airbnb over the next year, I'll probably keep both, but I won't be booking any future trips
how's your time officially over if you're still using it over the next year lol
Not booking any new trips? It's for the solar eclipse, and bookings in the area I want to see it in are already getting scarce, so no sense in missing out on that rare experience just to screw Airbnb out of $100 (or whatever their cut is)
A recent pilot in Prague enabled Hosts on Airbnb to trial Minut noise sensors, and found a reminder can be all that’s needed for a potential noise issue to be quickly resolved
If a reminder is all that's needed, the device could be an offline decibel meter that lights up when the volume exceeds a threshold.
Plus I'm sure parents are going to love their phone blowing up when little Billy is a bit too cranky at bed time.
My partner and I both carry two phones - personal and work. Can’t wait to get kicked out of an AirBnB due to having too many phones on the premises.
Yeah, I'm never using Airbnb again. This device is a crutch for wannabe hoteliers who don't know what hospitality is.
The prices on Airbnb aren't much different from real hotels, and there's way less of a gamble with a hotel brand that can't just delete their user profile and create a new one tomorrow after a bad review.
Recently I've been finding hotels at a lower cost than airBNB.
yea, I'll take the nicer room, downtown, without a load of cleaning fees
Airbnb can neither allow nor disallow them, because it is all up to the law - in Germany, that is.