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  • Airbnb stock tumbled 14% in one day after the company predicted slowing demand.
  • Some former Airbnb diehards say they now prefer the consistency of hotels.
  • Airbnb said it might increase travelers' ability to book hotel rooms through Airbnb.
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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

AirBNBs are not hotels. I guess that should be obvious, but my sister booked one for her family and me to attend a wedding. They technically did have an iron as claimed, but it was broken and the steam setting didn't work. Oh, and there was no ironing board, which it turns out is pretty key to the process. Every single hotel in the country has this basic amenity... Spent twice as long trying to iron on the top of the dryer, burned my slacks (ruining them), and I look bad in photos.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Airbnb doesn't protect the tenant enough.

I've been charged for a locksmith because the instructions state "leave the key on the table" but the dumbass landlord doesn't have a spare key.

I only find it helpful for renting homes during group trips. Otherwise I'll always go to a hotel.

Similarly, I will always use cabs in NYC, never an Uber.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I never did get into Airbnb: there was always too much room for unpredictability that I don’t want to deal with when traveling. Since then, we have the rise of chore lists and they’ve lost the price advantage in many places, so I don’t really see a point. Even worse, AirBnB has been around long enough that we all probably know someone who had a bad experience

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