Haven’t used airbnb in years, hotels are so much better and usually cheaper
And you don’t have to put the sheets in the wash, run the dishwasher, and take the trash out.
I have to eat out in a hotel, I save money by cooking in the Abnb
Yeah, but at a hotel, do you have to wash the dishes, change the bedsheet, take out your trash, mow the lawn, retile the roof and breastfeed the house baby while paying the same amount of more like in an Airbnb?
Thought so.
Seriously. This year for a similar amount per night, while I didn’t get a whole house to myself,
Just a two bed room, bathroom, desk, mini fridge, microwave, and coffee maker to myself.
I got an actually good free breakfast every day, a pool, a gym, free room cleaning, free Internet, and there was like a mini food store next to the front-desk if I needed food in the middle of the night.
Sure there are crap hotels, but if you read reviews it’s not too hard to find decent ones. And there’s usually no surprise extra fees.
Pretty much the only issue I ran into was at one hotel, the claimed free breakfast was watered down coffee, a waffle maker, cereal, and frozen solid orange juice. Had to go out for breakfast every morning which was annoying.
I can guarantee you can get a pretty nice hotel for less than that without bullshit fees. Anyone still using Airbnb or any of the other short term rentals deserve what they get.
Not for this one but when you say anyone… families get a better deal with Airbnb than hotels generally.
And when you have a baby or a toddler a kitchen is pretty much mandatory.
Are you kidding? It’s totally common for hotels to charge 50 bucks a night in bullshit fees
Last week I stayed in a hotel for 3 days at a said and done price that was still about $100 cheaper than this 2 night Airbnb’s base price, not even adding in their fees.
Ok? That tells us nothing without comparing location, etc.
I have never had a hotel charge bullshit fees. Rental rate and tax are all I have ever paid.
Around 2004-5 I regularly stayed at a large chain hotel near Tucson airport (something like Doubletree, but I’m not sure if it was that one). They charged a daily fee for the phone in your room. Not for using it, mind you, just for the phone being there. And no, they did not have rooms without phones.
In the US it is common to have an amenities fee that you will only know, in most cases, the day of your check in. The fee applies whether you use the amenities or not.
California just passed a law banning any mandatory fee if it isn’t included in the advertised rates; the ban goes into force starting middle of next year.
The new law, which takes effect on July 1, 2024, “make[s] unlawful advertising, displaying, or offering a price for a good or service that does not include all mandatory fees or charges other than taxes or fees imposed by a government on the transaction.” If a fee is not optional and cannot be removed from a bill, the fee has to be disclosed from the top.
That being said, I would imagine that there is some wiggle room on “mandatory”. Like, a hotel is going to be allowed to charge for use of items in a minibar, for example – that’s not a mandatory fee. I don’t know what the bar is for notification that a given action will incur a fee.
Lots of hotels tack on “amenity fees” or “resort fees” separate from those. It’s pretty obnoxious, especially since they don’t show them to you til you’re halfway through booking.
Parking (at a remote resort with no other reasonable way of accessing) comes to mind as one of the bullshit’ish fees I’ve had to pay, but most of the rest are usually fees passed up from the municipality etc
Big city mandatory valet comes to my mind.
In general, AirBnB is where we get places where we want to sleep 10 or 12 in one place.
Sure, but this is 2 guests unless they’re planning on lying about it. In which case, double whammy when they get hit with another fee for extra people.
Sorry it wasn’t a rebuttal. Rather, I was agreeing thatvfor situations like this a hotel is better, bit it’s hard to match AirBnB when you want to sleep lots of people in one place.
The major thing that keeps me from trying Airbnb is the fact that you have to clean up after yourself. I go on vacation to relax, not clean.
Also bedbugs.
Why clean, if you’re gonna pay a cleaning fee anyway? Do they send the AirBNB police after you?
They can have an extra fee added to your bill if you don’t accomplish certain tasks…
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Host fees
They love to make it look like the fees are being charged by anyone except them
Stop using Airbnb FFS
Are they also paying $57 for a service egg?
I know it is supposed to say “Service Fee” but after reading your comment my brain is unable to read anything other than Service Egg now …
They’ve got to switch that terminology to “parasite”
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I think amenities fees should be illegal. When I asked what amenities, they said “housekeeping, the free wifi, the exercise room”.
They charged an amenity fee for “free wifi”?
I think they meant fee (without the ‘r’) wifi
