I’ve seen too many instances of either:
- hospitality companies making an extra buck at the expense of everyone else
- people with “I am gonna make money with no expenses, watch meh”
people with “I am gonna make money with no expenses, watch meh”
as an example:
“Consumables,” are the perishable supplies. So that alone will put a damper on that mind-set.
If you make a product that requires you needing to handle said product with nitrile gloves, you’re going to need to allocate some of your potential earnings back into the company and buy more nirile gloves until that specific consumable eventually pays for itself OR you charge a little extra to keep the consumables in stock.
It’s a business that they’re running, so if they’re not able to use those fees to actually do what they say they’re going to, then they need to accept the fact that people are no longer willing to pay for the services.
Like the person wearing the nitrile gloves isn’t making the nitrile gloves but they’re required to make the product.
So if you’re paying a cleaning fee and they’re making you clean, they’re not using the money where it’s supposed to be going OR they’re not hiring a cleaning crew that can do what they need.
I’ve also seen some videos where some of the air b’n’b owners going, “if i need to do this by this time,” well maybe they shouldn’t be allowing guests so soon and booking on top of each other. As much as it is a business, if they’re not running the business properly and only looking at the end profit gain… then they shouldn’t be doing what they’re doing and look into doing something else.
I like renting apartments when I travel, but not through airbnb. And definitely not after they started offering apartments in the occupied territories.
Places like agoda also offer apartments, and AFAIK they’re not involved in this kinds of invading crap.
Vacation apartments have been a thing for a lot longer than Airbnb. There are entire chains of vacation apartments, like https://visionapartments.com/en and https://www.limehome.com/en/ (I have stayed in both, but never used Airbnb at all).
I never know where to look for such stuff outside of Airbnb so I’ll save this comment and keep in my back pocket for such a time in the future, thanks!
I found both of them through booking.com, they aren’t just for hotels, but have apartments too.
Booking is about as bad as airbnb regarding invasions, as mentioned in the same article.
Air BnB has been straight up bad value for such a long time. Hotels have competed on price and give much better deals… With 24 hour front desks, helpful staff, swimming pool, en suite bathroom, etc. I gave up Air BnB years ago and never looked back.
AND YOU DONT HAVE TO CLEAN THE FUCKING HOTEL FOR THEM!
Wanna eat extra wet chicken wings in your king sized bed? Fuck it. The bones? Just toss ‘em on the floor!
(Just to be clear, don’t do that)
Or do do that, and leave the housekeeper a tip, it’ll still be less than the cleaning fee you get for leaving the airbnb spotless
Same. The only value for me is when I’m traveling with a group of friends/family and we all want to stay together. That’s the only added value to an Airbnb for me.
Place I used to work at would book AirBnBs for any overnight stays at places far away from home. It usually worked out better, since it was cheaper than getting an individual room at a hotel for each employee, especially when it was 4-5, since it was company policy that every employee is entitled to their own room (which was relevant for people who worked with family and sometimes stayed together). We did have a lot of issues with going places that would list X bedrooms when they really meant X beds. But for my personal life, I can’t typically justify an AirBnB.
