Hotel vs. 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.

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.

yeah, all my experiences with Airbnb in different parts of the world were really good, the only bad one was in Marseilles this year. I would say that three people is a good number to think to rent an airbnb.

[dad]

Stumbled across this tweet too. Truly awful people in this world.

[bodysnatcher]

Also, having to tell your host your itinerary? Hotel is like, “don’t give a shit, just be out by 11:00 on your checkout day”…… “I slept in, can I check out at noon?”…… “sure.”

[bodysnatcher]

I’ve stayed in 6 Airbnb’s, and I’d say 4 of them were poor to subpar accommodations for the price. One of them should have been a condemned house which was very falsely portrayed in the photos.

[The Argonaut]

It's also become very difficult just to browse the app and filter by price. The cleaning fees are often truly insane, nearly doubling the listed price. It's all just too much to bear

[bodysnatcher]

It's also become very difficult just to browse the app and filter by price. The cleaning fees are often truly insane, nearly doubling the listed price. It's all just too much to bear

Yep

“Oh sweet $70 a night for 3 nights, what a deal!



$500 total ???!!”

People are marking up the cleaning fees a ridiculous amount to cover the fees that Airbnb takes from their profit, and then hiring the cheapest cleaning crew or doing it themselves for free. So essentially you’re paying a cleaning fee, the Airbnb service fee, and then covering the host’s ass for what they owe Airbnb. And don’t even think about cancelling, even a month before your trip. But, the host can cancel your stay any time they want. Especially when they list their place on Vrbo for a higher rate and someone reserves it. It’s a shit system and I refuse to support it when scheduling my travel

[Monkey_Driven]

One Airbnb had a Sega Dreamcast. Instant 5 stars.

[Bammer]

Vrbo is where it’s at

[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.

[B]

I've never had a bad AirBnB, but they cost as much as a hotel now, so I don't see why I'd bother staying in someone's house. No maintenance, under cleaned, will there be sheets? Towels? Toilet paper?

Unless, I'm looking for cool digs like a treehouse or a mountain cabin, I'm hotel all the way.

[B]

interesting timing…

Yeah, my family stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last week, and the simplicity can't be beat. Food. Coffee. Extra towels. Extra sheets. No rules to memorize. No signs all over the place telling you not to do whatever ridiculous thing some previous guest did.

I laughed my ass off in Philadelphia at the trail of notes starting in the hallway. "Please don't stop on the stairs. Be respectful of our neighbors." "Please don't use liquid dish soap in the dishwasher." "Do not use wash cloths to remove make-up." "Don't put food down the bathroom sink." etc, etc.

[B]

Here's one of my favorite WTF moments in an AirBnB.

[spike]

[Chris_H_2]

One Airbnb had a Sega Dreamcast. Instant 5 stars.

the house from airbnb we're renting in palm springs for spring break has a full arcade-sized golden tee. watch it take quarters.

[dad]

One Airbnb had a Sega Dreamcast. Instant 5 stars.

the house from airbnb we're renting in palm springs for spring break has a full arcade-sized golden tee. watch it take quarters.

please report back.

[doug rr]

staying in an airbnb starting this Friday in whistler..there will be 7 of us in a giant house...bringing the dog as well..everyone will ski except me..I'll be cooking, drinking, and watching football

[epilogue]

I've only had one bad airbnb experience (and even that ended up okay -- got a fully refund). I've had a dozen terrible hotel experiences.

Having said that, the points many have made are valid. And lately I've been leaning hotel.

[doug rr]

I think I posted this years ago but we've also had only one bad airbnb...lexington Kentucky..we ended up leaving after one hour and stayed at the hotel that is located next to Rupp arena

[Chris_H_2]

I think I posted this years ago but we've also had only one bad airbnb...lexington Kentucky..we ended up leaving after one hour and stayed at the hotel that is located next to Rupp arena

i warned you not to rent eddie sutton's house

[bart]

Nothing beats a nice hotel