Hotel vs. Airbnb

[Jorge]

Which do you prefer these days? When do you pick one over the other?

Getting an Airbnb used to be a much better deal than it is anymore.

[spike]

You’re not wrong.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I’ve never stayed over a night at a time in an Airbnb, so hard to compare from a quality comfortability standpoint. I will say in Baltimore at least it was still cheaper than a hotel, but I know it’s a lot more expensive than it used to be.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[The Argonaut]

Hotel, for sure. Airbnb is, I'd agree, not nearly as affordable as it used to be. And the potential for awkwardness is always much higher.

The only way I'd see Airbnb being an advantage is when you're renting a house with a big group of people. That's advantageous over a bunch of hotel rooms, for sure.

[knee tunes]

Hotel, for sure. Airbnb is, I'd agree, not nearly as affordable as it used to be. And the potential for awkwardness is always much higher.

The only way I'd see Airbnb being an advantage is when you're renting a house with a big group of people. That's advantageous over a bunch of hotel rooms, for sure.

[bodysnatcher]

Hotel, hands down. More affordable, less hassle, and I don’t have to fully clean the place and then get charged a cleaning fee. Plus hotels don’t tilt the housing market in favor of rich investors, and create possibly sudden negative environments for neighbors.

[The Argonaut]

oh, yeah, right, the housing thing, too. I forgot that one

[Monkey_Driven]

Depends on the situation. If it's an extended trip with a big group or my family, an Airbnb is the winner. A hotel is just fine otherwise.

[dad]

interesting timing…

[Jorge]

Actually that tweet inspired this thread

[dad]

we definitely lean more into hotels when it’s just the two of us, and Airbnb when we’re staying extended with the kids. The last Airbnb we stayed at was in Connecticut last summer, and the owners wanted us to turn off the a/c while we were out. F that. I’m paying for comfort. I’m going to get the comfort.

Also, boutique hotels are fun. Regular hotels too.

[BurtReynolds]

Never stayed at an airbnb. never got the appeal, tbh. I like that I can act like an utter pig at hotels.

[doug rr]

pretty much depends where we're going..most of our drives between Washington and California are stops at a holiday inn express..king size bed, allows our dog and has a bar/steakhouse next door...most other times such as a getaway we like to airbnb..I will say that airbnb has gotten a bit expensive lately..especially with cleaning fees and taxes

[Jorge]

Never stayed at an airbnb. never got the appeal, tbh. I like that I can act like an utter pig at hotels.

The appeal used to be that it was a lot cheaper. Plus you got an entire apartment to yourself rather than just a room. But these days it's considerably cheaper to rent a hotel room in a lot of cities.

[Ello Sailor]

1-2 people, hotel. More than that, Airbnb.

[VinylGuy]

I still use Airbnb, although its clear it got more expensive.

Im my recent trip to Europe we were three and rented a very cool place in Madrid, and awesome space in Cannes ( were the hotels i presume must be impossible) and had problems in Marseilles, were the place was a filthy hole. Really, it seemed people were living there.
We went to a hotel that also works kinda as a hostel and we had a blast.

I went alone to Belgium and Netherlands and repeated the hostel thing and by the time i got together with my business partner in Barcelona we decided to not even look for an Airbnb because we were two.

[Bammer]

“filthy hole”

[spike]

I still use Airbnb, although its clear it got more expensive.

Im my recent trip to Europe we were three and rented a very cool place in Madrid, and awesome space in Cannes ( were the hotels i presume must be impossible) and had problems in Marseilles, were the place was a filthy hole. Really, it seemed people were living there.
We went to a hotel that also works kinda as a hostel and we had a blast.

I went alone to Belgium and Netherlands and repeated the hostel thing and by the time i got together with my business partner in Barcelona we decided to not even look for an Airbnb because we were two.

We had a traveling party of nine through Europe a few years ago, and stayed in some awesome airbnbs. Like an entire villa in Bellagio, and a large apartment in Budapest with frescos covering the walls.

Definitely the way to go if you have several chipping in.

[Jorge]

Yeah I guess that makes sense. The last time I stayed at an Airbnb it was with a large group.