How you feel about Airbnb will depend on your prior experiences. There’s a lot of love for the company, but there’s an equal amount of hate for its business practices, too. On the one hand, you can book a place to stay pretty much anywhere around the world. On the other hand, hefty cleaning fees, the lack of support, and sometimes iffy host practices can leave a foul taste in your mouth.
Our travel-loving team at Bored Panda has collected some of the most powerful tweets that showcase just how infuriating dealing with Airbnb can really be. Scroll down to take a peek at how nightmarish some people’s stays actually were.
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So true! Last Airbnb in Czech"Oh, you have a toddler, let me pick you up from the train, and fill the fridge with toddler snacks, also I got you a box of toys, if ye likes any you can keep it"
I stayed in a suite in a castle in the country, with breakfast for less than half this amount, last weekend
Free continental breakfast too! Start off the day with a hot meal, and it's one less meal to pay for when traveling.
You're a free market guy until it hurts you, I see... Edit: I don't intend to offend anyone. But the difference between a regulated market and a free market is that... well, the second one is not regulated. You can downvote me, but the point is that regulations are needed in order to protect ground rights.
As a 45 year old, I can confirm that this game existed when she was a high schooler.
I'm not really sure why Airbnb has this system where hosts get to interview the renter and deny them for whatever reason. I can't imagine a hotel operating like that.
Wow. Wonder if he also denies those vaccinated for polio, measles, HPV, etc.
Thousand bucks for one night? I'd rather stay awake with the power of coffee.
He wants to own a hotel but you know...without the facilities, reception and maintenance.
We rented a house in Maine through a local real estate broker, but it was the same. We got charged extra because the cleaner claimed there was a lot of dog hair on the floor. There wasn't. I swept every day we were there, and we have yellow lab--not a big shedder. I think the cleaner just saw "dog" and decided she could make some extra money. Like, your sweeping anyway, right? Is the dog hair heavy?
Wait what? Instead of cracking down on pervs they just said ‘yeah sure, go ahead. I gotcha 😉’….
Don't worry, when it crashes the government will bail them out and tell the greater population to "tough it out" (not American but it's the same here).
Maybe they did expect you to join the argument in the same terms, like a family, if the situation wasn't weird by itself.
The last hotel we stayed at I had to go down to the front desk and ask them to extend our stay by 2 hours after checkout because the baby had finally fell asleep after a night of teething pain and I didn't want to wake her. The guy at the front desk was so sweet and refused to charge me for the extra time. I doubt I'd ever find that level of empathy from an Airbnb owner.
I don't think Keir realizes that a lot of Airbnb's hosts do not live in the property they rent out. They own the property specifically to rent it out on Airbnb. The days of people renting out their spare bedroom for the weekend are long gone.
Bro, on my 40th birthday we stayed at an Airbnb. The place had an awesome outdoor lounge area with fireplace and view of the ocean. What wasn’t in the ad was the rules of no sitting outside after 8pm, no music, and no visitor. We weren’t planning a party but screw that I had plans to have about 8 people there (including me and my wife and the other couple staying there)for drinks and to hang out. Rules were broken for sure. That was the last time I stayed at an Airbnb. Place was nice but I’m an adult and don’t need teenager treatment.
Wow I had no idea people charge such extortionate amounts for cleaning. I clean my AirBnB let myself, I bend over backwards to make sure my guests have everything they need. I provide an info pack on the area with places to visit, places to eat, shop etc. My only caveat for people who want to bring a pet is that they clean up before they leave, and I tend to say "No" to pets if I am fully booked, because I don't want to risk someone coming in with an allergy to whatever pet was in there. (I have a lot of animals here, but they are away from guests.) That said, I've had people break the fridge, the shower, the coffee machine -- and replacing those is expensive. Towels stolen, even some of the bed linen was stolen. Proving it is almost impossible, so you don't get reimbursed a lot of times. (The ones who broke the fridge were adamant it was working when they left. Didn't get damages from Airbnb to replace it...) But, geez, I charge €65 a night for the entire thing.
"Vulnerable to hygiene management" sounds so ominous. Like, if you sleep here, you're going to wake up in an ice cold bath of tide pods with an organ missing.
I always strip the bed at hotels to try and make things a tiny bit easier for housekeeping staff.
I'm thinking on buy a terrain and list it on AirBnB. First guests, place foundations; next, make pillars, then roof, walls, plumbery... Materials will come from the cleaning fee. I think I have a solid business plan.
In France: 100€ x 4 nights - 400 € Cleaning fee - 60 € Service fee - 67 € Taxes - 12 € Total: 537 € This common in my travels in Europe. The house can be more or less expensive, and the tax may vary from a city to another, of course.
Airbnb's haven't worked well for me with a toddler even if the owner doesn't harass me. In a little hotel room, the main baby proofing issues are that they could play with the phone, lamps, or maybe curtains. Airbnb's have all of those, plus knick knacks, fireplaces, second story decks, stairs, kitchen implements, priceless family heirlooms, unsecured furniture, and/or cleaning supplies.
I thought AirBnB had just recently changed this and now allowed people to search on total price?
Regardless of your experience with an AirBnB, it's important to remember how bad this service is hurting people all over the world. The housing crisis in several cities is a result of thousands of AirBnBs taking rental spaces off the market. https://youtu.be/lHr7GXuqzm0 Here's a link that explains it much better than I could if anyone is interested.
AirBnB in the US is broken. Seven years ago we toured the east coast and stayed in the basement apartment of an occupied home in DC, the back house on a small farm in Virginia, and an apartment in Gettysburg that was decorated like an older woman had lived there for decades and had lovingly decorated it to her taste. I stopped using AirBnB last year after staying in my third apartment in six months, where they were all clearly rented as a side hustle and decorated and furnished as cheaply as possible. Seven years ago I was helping people by staying in unused places on their live-in properties, in 2021- 22 I was helping to take housing away from people who need places to live. I can't support that.
Same. We have been lucky enough to keep in contact with our old abnb hosts and still use them for vacations. In return we let them use our mountain cabin if we aren't there. Bartering vacation houses has become our go to.
Load More Replies...What should be a cheaper way to enjoy travel has turned into a money grabbing shakedown of people. Bring back Bed&Breakfasts, those were great ways to travel, you get immersed in the area, meet some awesome people, and breakfast too. I travelled Ireland that way, and I enjoyed it very much. I loved meeting fellow travellers, and the hosts were so engaging and nothing beats a full Irish breakfast.
Regardless of your experience with an AirBnB, it's important to remember how bad this service is hurting people all over the world. The housing crisis in several cities is a result of thousands of AirBnBs taking rental spaces off the market. https://youtu.be/lHr7GXuqzm0 Here's a link that explains it much better than I could if anyone is interested.
AirBnB in the US is broken. Seven years ago we toured the east coast and stayed in the basement apartment of an occupied home in DC, the back house on a small farm in Virginia, and an apartment in Gettysburg that was decorated like an older woman had lived there for decades and had lovingly decorated it to her taste. I stopped using AirBnB last year after staying in my third apartment in six months, where they were all clearly rented as a side hustle and decorated and furnished as cheaply as possible. Seven years ago I was helping people by staying in unused places on their live-in properties, in 2021- 22 I was helping to take housing away from people who need places to live. I can't support that.
Same. We have been lucky enough to keep in contact with our old abnb hosts and still use them for vacations. In return we let them use our mountain cabin if we aren't there. Bartering vacation houses has become our go to.
Load More Replies...What should be a cheaper way to enjoy travel has turned into a money grabbing shakedown of people. Bring back Bed&Breakfasts, those were great ways to travel, you get immersed in the area, meet some awesome people, and breakfast too. I travelled Ireland that way, and I enjoyed it very much. I loved meeting fellow travellers, and the hosts were so engaging and nothing beats a full Irish breakfast.
