33 Folks Online Are Roasting Airbnb Hosts For Having The Most Ridiculous Requirements

A lot of these were more expensive than a high end hotel, ffs. Why would you spend more money to do someone else's chores?

I'd be fine stripping the bed(s) and leaving the linen in a pile in the room or by the washer. I'd be fine washing the dishes I used. If there's a small amount of trash, no prob to leave it. If there much more, smelly, or many people contributing to the trash, I'd take it out. At a hotel, they do this stuff for you, an Airbnb can be different. Now if we went past the basics, and caused a huge mess and didn't clean it, I'd understand being charged a cleaning fee. If I'm being charged a cleaning fee regardless, then I plan to do little to no cleaning at all. They can earn that fee. Many of the rules these people want are beyond ridiculous and makes me wonder how they even get people in. And a few make it sound like the the owners are also in the home, not just next door! Why stay if the owners are there also? Creepy!

Remember the old good days of Taxis and hotels motels ? Now it's always a 3ed party running the original service for the provider and the customer. Uber, Airbnb, linkdln, yalp.

So what's the business model here, I'm confused. I thought ABNB was super cheap, hence the rules. If it's expensive why are people bothering?

The list of things to do afterwards is ridiculous, I agree. But how many of these very specific rules are because of one a**hat who pushed the limits of hospitality too far?

As I said in an older, similar post: I stayed in over 60 different airbnb places over the past few years. In all different kind of West European countries. Most of them were great. A few average. Never bad. Mostly we try to stay in smaller towns. Nicer folks, better food, better value. More calm and quiet. We chose to stay at airbnbs a bunch of years ago because we decided that our dog will travel with us from that time (until today). And having a whole apartment or even a house is great. More space for the dog, less noise than in a hotel. And many times some outside space. Really enjoyed it and met lots of wonderful hosts along the way.

I wish couchsurfing was still a thing. A good 10 years ago I was traveling through the world and Couchsurfing was great. People used to be really friendly, they let you sleep on their couch for free, even made you dinner sometimes, guided you through the town or picked you up at the airport. Met a bunch of great people through this. Then airbnb came and nobody wanter to do couchsurfing because why would you do that if you can do the same for money. And then it changed even more, airbnb became a hotel like experience but worse. And it started destroying cities because rents were up and whole apartment blocks became airbnb, destroying the culture and often making more mess than benefits. I hate airbnb with my whole heart.

I stayed at an Airbnb one time. Paid hundreds of dollars in cleaning fees, only to get to the house and find out there were two rolls of toilet paper for five women for five days. One roll of paper towels. Four actual towels. And the sounds of mice running through the walls nonstop all night long every night. And expected us to strip beds, start laundry, dust, and sweep the floor. That was my first and very last Airbnb experience. Add to that the fact that Airbnb owners are quite literally destroying the housing market, and that’s enough reason for me to just stay in a hotel.

The "start a load of laundry" before you leave thing doesn't seem outrageous to me (or the "take out the trash," and "do your own dishes") *if* it's a place that's offering a substantially. lower rate than professionally-run accommodation of similar type in that location. If they're charging full-service prices, they can provide full service.

Oof, I lucked out on mine. I've only used one once for a few days away. Took my trash out because I was passing the bin as I left anyway and got a super lovely message from the host thanking me for leaving the place so clean. Didn't have to strip the bedding or wash it or anything. It's almost like she was expecting the place to look like someone had been staying there...

If the cleaning fees and booking fees are more expensive than a hotel, I’m booking a hotel. Also I don’t mind gathering trash and gathering linens but that’s it. If you don’t have trash after you clean during housekeeping (and thus you could take my trash with you at the same time), then you’re not cleaning.

okay some of these people are just bitching, it’s not hard to take out your trash before you leave lmao and the owner is not responsible for buying you toilet paper and stuff like that, that’s your job. i’ve stayed in tons of airbnbs and rentals and you always have to clean up the mess you bring in and buy your own necessities, that’s pretty well know and expected

What turned me off AirBNB is the fact that they evaluate YOU. Oh, I pay you money for your shitty kitchen shack, and then you will also publicly evaluate how likeable you found me?! NO THANKS

When i stayed at a hostel and shared a room, had to strip the bed on check out it cost me $15 per night. No hidden fees or rules, exactly what i paid for. When i booked an air bnb by accident through booking.com they changed the address on me so we had to go even further out of my way to stay there

I wouldn’t want to stay somewhere where random people cleaned the space before me. Someone that doesn’t care about it being truly clean