My favorite hotel is the "C'mon inn" in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, etc. It's a small family-owned chain that charges about $100 per night and has rustic decor and always has a pool and a bunch of jacuzzis. Amazing service, tasty breakfast, low price, and I'm not feeding some gigantic corporation. It's a matter of finding the smaller outfits, I tell ya.
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You think he's leaving the citizens alone? We're all fucked.
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I stayed at one AirBnB where the owner had replaced all the kitchen counters with untreated butcher block. The instructions basically said "don't use the kitchen". For bonus points, my parents got the one bedroom and I had to sleep in the kids' room ... on the bottom bunk with the actual kid's sheets because there weren't any other sheets in the house. I just felt sorry for the kid.
AirBnB may have some niche uses, but it is no replacement for hotels if you are just looking for general lodging.
I rent apartments a lot on booking.com for staff travel, it's never any hassle.
Used Airbnb once, never again.
Family book it often if I don't get ahead of them, apart from one time the places are always sub par and half the stuff is broken.
On the other hand, I'd pay extra to not give those cunts and their israeli buddies a cent. But it's almost impossible now. I call the hotel and they say "make a booking through booking.com (or one of its thousands of sites)"
Before I would hang up and look for another one, but I realise now that the cancer has taken total control.
Airbnb, Amazon, this shit.... Only someone insane would refuse to bend to our benevolent overlords, and I am still insane, putting up a fight I already lost.
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This makes an assumption that the Airbnb you booked actually exists. That is usually but not always a correct assumption. 🫥
And if it does exist, sometimes it's not legal. 🤡
I once had the guy tell me to enter and exit the building discreetly because the other tenants weren't supposed to know he was subleasing the apartment. I think they knew.
I had the same thing happen to me in London. Twice.
Both booked from hotels.com. The place didn't have the advertised room available so we got moved to another location. Both times.
Never book through Hotels.com even for actual hotels. Just look at the price and call the hotel directly. They will always price match because Hotels.com takes a cut of bookings through their site so they always win out if you book directly at the same price instead of going through hotels.com
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Why is the Airbnb $225? This is the point of it to be cheaper. Also, I haven't used an Airbnb in approximately seven years.
Airbnb no longer ads much value over hotels. Their pricing is frequently similar.
I’d say AirBnB’s pricing is worse since my hotel stay means I can just pack my stuff and leave. Most of the AirBnB’s I’ve stayed at have required me to cleanup after myself like I didn’t just pay a “cleaning” fee.
Airbnb used to be about renting your room for short stay, nowadays it's renting the whole unit/house, so the price reflect that. Then there's also cleaning fee that usually around 30%/40% of the total price, which then they demand you to clean the place before leaving. They also jack up the price after covid. It might worth it if you have a big group, but for 1 or 2 persons hotel is still the best option.
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Perfectly sums up why I always pick a chain hotel for my vacations. I'm here to relax, not follow a cleaning checklist.
I mean, seriously, does AirBnB really not include housekeeping services as part of your stay? Why would anyone agree to stay at one of these? Daily housekeeping is a make or break amenity for me. How is that not the case for everyone?
I've never used AirBNB. What's so special about it?
It used to be the cheaper option compared to hotels. Because it used to be people renting out a spare room.
And now it is (helping) ruining the housing market for us normal folk, with all these "entrepreneurs" buying up houses to list for high short stay rents on airbnb.
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Yep! And those hosts bend over backwards. Like here's a spare room, here's some local chocolates from our town chocolatier. I made these jerkies. You're invited to our 8pm fireplace time and have s'mores.
It was a real community. They still exist. But they're overshadowed by shitty Airbnbs that want you to clean the gutters and mop the floors now for twice the price of a hotel.
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I have a fondness for AirBnB. It's gotten way bad in the past decade, since it's being gamed.
Back then, there wasn't much of a review system for shitty places. Today, Google Maps, Yelp, forums, social media - they can warn you about shitty places. And from my experience back then, a lot of hotels were scams.
Need a place to crash? You can either get a scary motel for like $40 that might have bed bugs, or a hotel for $300. I remember my first time in 2000 booking a hotel over the phone, having them save me a room, only to get there and these fuckers tried to upcharge me. I walked and they said, "Good luck finding a room in the middle of the night!" My mom eats specific foods because of her health issues, and Airbnbs often have shared kitchens. Hotels only recently started adding kitchenettes. And some hotels had locked devices. TV was extra. Fridge was extra. Touch snacks, fucking extra. You expected to pay $250 and here's a bill for $600. Don't want to pay? Well we'll call the cops.
Airbnb and Uber gave people options, and you can give bad reviews to these bad actors. Having all this competition, hotels and taxis improved dramatically.
Of course, now Airbnb hosts (not Airbnb the company) took a lot of the shitty behavior that hotels used to do. Not to mention a lot of the Airbnbs are now owned by real estate companies who are trying to squeeze every penny.
So yeah, hotels have come back around to being a better service. And now if you get fucked over by the Marriot or something, take photos, leave a bad review, and they bend over backwards to apologize.
Rent a house instead of a hotel room. We've used that and other services like VRBO to rent cabins in the mountains. There's nothing really "special" about it and it's not really different from those other services like VRBO that came before. I think originally the difference was letting people rent a spare room, but I've personally never met anyone who has used that functionality (leasing or renting side).
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I went to Rome with my wife and stayed at an Airbnb thing. The guy who rented it to us looked like a mafia boss and wanted the payment in cash.
But the apartement was actually really nice, and right in the middle of old Rome!
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