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Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why clean, if you’re gonna pay a cleaning fee anyway? Do they send the AirBNB police after you?

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They can have an extra fee added to your bill if you don’t accomplish certain tasks…

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• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not for this one but when you say anyone… families get a better deal with Airbnb than hotels generally.

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  • loutr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And when you have a baby or a toddler a kitchen is pretty much mandatory.

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Fal@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are you kidding? It’s totally common for hotels to charge 50 bucks a night in bullshit fees

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  • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have never had a hotel charge bullshit fees. Rental rate and tax are all I have ever paid.

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    • witten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lots of hotels tack on “amenity fees” or “resort fees” separate from those. It’s pretty obnoxious.

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      • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • oleorun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Big city mandatory valet comes to my mind.

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    • RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Ambiorickx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Jamie@jamie.moe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Fal@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok? That tells us nothing without comparing location, etc.

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