What sort of hotel are you staying at?
I just looked and the cheapest air BNB in my city is literally someone’s RV for $100 a night.
In most cities I can grab a room in a nice hotel for $100 to $150 per night. Cheap hotels are more like $80 a night.
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ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 weeks agoTbh ive booked no less than 8 airbnbs in the last 3 years and have always had zero issues in any of them. No ridiculous rules or deposits or anything, and a lot more privacy than getting a hotel. More importantly, always far cheaper than getting a hotel that isn’t questionably shitty
In that same span of time, Ive booked like 4 hotel rooms. One was a four star property that was great but stupid expensive. One was a “3 star” property that was shoddy as fuck, had bedbugs, and refused to give me a refund despite bringing one of the bugs to the front desk and politely declining to be put in another room. The other two hotels were decent but cost more than what they were worth. Hence I roll on with airbnbs
cogman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
STR?
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Short term rental, an umbrella term for airbnb, vrbo, etc
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ugh just say the words.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s short for strong, a data type in pretty much every programming language which traditionally is a length followed by a sequence of characters. Another storage approach used by C is to make strings just the sequence of characters with a 0 value on the end. However this approach was an optimization for 1960s technology which had aged into being a pain in the ass by 1961.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Just an FYI, since privacy seems to be a big concern for you… AirBnB used to allow hosts to hide cameras inside of their rented spaces. It was explicitly allowed in their renting rules, under the premise of allowing owners to enforce rules and collect evidence in case of excessive mess/damage/theft. They banned hidden cameras in 2024, but over half of rental owners still admit to using them, and about half of all guests still report finding one inside of their rented spaces if they bother to look.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Horror story from Germany: colleague from my former workplace was living a bit after away and always rented local AirBnB locations until she found several hidden cameras, including one in the bedroom. This was before the official ban, but I’m never going to use the platform again.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
& the host quite likely committed a felony under German law.
grimWar@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
AirBnB never allowed hidden cameras; they allowed visible indoor cameras in common areas like a living room or kitchen. This isn’t to say that some nefarious hosts might have hidden cameras, which has always been an issue, but to say that they explicitly allowed it in their policy is patently false.
Here’s the archived version of the policy page in 2022: Use of cameras and recording devices
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Just hypothetically speaking, is it against the end user license agreement to use a Wi-Fi jammer?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This is blatantly false. Got a source for your claim?
FridaySteve@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which part are you suggesting is false?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That it was explicitly allowed in the rental agreement for the purpose of collecting evidence of rulebreaking.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I meant privacy moreso as in coming and going as I please without interacting with anybody or being surrounded by other guests. But that is a valid separate concern I suppose
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“I’m chill if strangers watch me sleep, I just don’t want to have to talk to them”…what a world
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Says something about how awful some people are to interact with when anyone would rather the alternative, doesn’t it?