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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Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’ve never used AirBNB. What’s so special about it?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why would anyone want to stay anywhere but a hotel/resort on vacation? How does AirBnB handle housekeeping services? It’s not really up to the guest to clean, right?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
Define clean? If there are dishes, you do them yourself. If you make a massive mess you clean it yourself to avoid fees. At the end of the stay you generally do something simple like toss all used bedding into one spot. Sometimes they expect you to start laundry by putting all towels in the washer. So, yeah, sort of, but there’s a massive difference between cleaning up after yourself and starting the laundry compared to sanitizing everything, vacuuming everything, etc.
Let me put it like this. I hate house keeping. It’s the worst. I’ve never viewed the check out requirements at any of the places I stayed as too much. Sure, there’s the occasional nightmare scenario, but hotels have nightmares too.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 days ago
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.
PokerChips@programming.dev 1 day ago
15 years ago it was much cheaper than a hotel. Depending on the type of reservation, you may also get a kitchen and basically a house.
But things have changed and now they’re not the cheapest route anymore. Some people get horror stories as you can imagine because… People do shitty things sometimes as is human law of statistics.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Location and large parties. You can usually find a short term rental in places where there aren’t any hotels (like near national parks, remote beaches, specific parts of certain cities).
It’s often cheaper to split a short term house rental between a large party than it is to get everyone rooms in a hotel. I’ve spent $700 a night at an AirBnB before because it was for a house with enough bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens for 14 people (with beach access). It was like renting an entire small hotel for a weekend.
The_Jit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I will do an AirBNnB when traveling with the wife and kids and another family, so all the kids can interact with each other early in the morning and us adults can all hang out later at night. We have had really good places, but we also do research on the place. I also skip anyplace that has no picture of the front of the place so I can find it on Google Street view and I skip any where with all the BS like in the picture. Otherwise, hotels all the way are better.
madjo@feddit.nl 2 days ago
It used to be the cheaper option compared to hotels. Because it used to be people renting out a spare room.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
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.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would be shocked if it had any appreciable impact at all, but it certainly isn’t helping.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’re wrong, sadly.
jali67@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
There’s a reason it is banned or considered being banned in some cities around the world.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 days ago
In large cities there are entire apartment buildings that have been converted to illegal hotels on Air BNB. It’s a huge problem, not the entire problem, but a damn big one.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 days ago
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.
RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Reading the plural form of “jerky” makes me feel oddly uneasy.
Is that just like… several pieces of beef jerky or deer jerky?
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m something of a jerkonnoisseur myself, and I have never considered the plural form of Jerky. This is like experiencing semantic satiation for the first time.
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helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Mass bound are one of the most difficult features in the English language for English as a second language learners.
People do this with the word “code” all the time, and I have a strong urge to correct it. But I usually don’t.