In general, AirBnB is where we get places where we want to sleep 10 or 12 in one place.
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Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Dave@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Dave@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
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.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not for this one but when you say anyone… families get a better deal with Airbnb than hotels generally.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
And when you have a baby or a toddler a kitchen is pretty much mandatory.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There are plenty of hotels with kitchens, though? I know they’re often called extended stay hotels, but you can still just book a few nights.
Fal@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Are you kidding? It’s totally common for hotels to charge 50 bucks a night in bullshit fees
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have never had a hotel charge bullshit fees. Rental rate and tax are all I have ever paid.
witten@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lots of hotels tack on “amenity fees” or “resort fees” separate from those. It’s pretty obnoxious.
phx@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
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
oleorun@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Big city mandatory valet comes to my mind.
RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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.
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
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.
frommers.com/…/california-bans-deceptive-resort-f…
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, and I don’t know what the bar is for notification that a given action will incur a fee.
Ambiorickx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Jamie@jamie.moe 8 months ago
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.
Fal@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Ok? That tells us nothing without comparing location, etc.
Psythik@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why clean, if you’re gonna pay a cleaning fee anyway? Do they send the AirBNB police after you?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They can have an extra fee added to your bill if you don’t accomplish certain tasks…