I think I'm done with Airbnb

[Boris Sprinkler]

It is the owners you are correct, but since everyone seems to be buttlicking a system of subservience this is where we are.

 

[hash tag]

Every time you stay in an Airbnb, remember how you are inflating rents? amirite kids?

Not to mention house prices.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

who can think about buying one?

 

[hash tag]

who can think about buying one?

Probably some rich person who doesn't give a shit about pricing locals out of the market.

 

[Idaho]

I'm booked into a couple of airbnbs next month. One is a spare room in someone's house and the other seems to be a converted shed in someone's garden. They are ok value for the areas they are in (rural Wiltshire). The more up market airbnbs in the area are the same price as the hotels - which is daft.

 

[Dystopiary]

Barcelona is aiming to be rid of short-term rentals like Airbnb by 2029.

Barcelona aims to become Airbnb-free zone by 2029

 

[Saul Goodman]

Barcelona is aiming to be rid of short-term rentals like Airbnb by 2029.

Barcelona aims to become Airbnb-free zone by 2029

I'm aiming to not shit myself if I have 'shrooms this weekend. Goals are a good thing.

 

[savoloysam]

Tried using it to save money on a hotel for my last holiday and received a ridiculous amount of requests to promise things like not smoking outside.

Fucked it off. Won't be bothering trying again.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Tried using it to save money on a hotel for my last holiday and received a ridiculous requests to promise things like not smoking outside.

Fucked it off. Won't be bothering trying again.

I'd have agreed, and smoked inside.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Not to mention house prices.

Do you think that when you go for a beer, you're to blame for the price of it? Because logically you must do if you think that people renting properties are to blame for inflating housing prices.

 

[two sheds]

to an extent, but if rents are high then companies and wealthy people will enter the market because they can get a 'good return' on their investment and be willing to pay higher prices for houses.

 

[bcuster]

I only got a 1/3 refund for canceling due to a tropical storm

 

[NoXion]

Airbnb sounds like it might have been a good deal early on in its life, but lately it sounds like a nightmare to deal with. Being spied on, ridiculous demands from the hosts, review fuckery, arbitrary and baseless blacklisting of customers, and so on.

Paying more for a regular hotel sounds like a better deal to me. Most of them are willing to provide some semblance of actual service, you don't have to wash up or clean anything, and if something goes wrong then they'll give you freebies (at least in my experience, last time I got sent to an already-occupied room and was gifted a couple of free drinks for my troubles).

 

[two sheds]

I used to love staying in pubs. Nice convivial evening in the bar meeting/talking to people then roll upstairs, and down in the morning for a proper breakfast

 

[lazythursday]

I mainly like Airbnb for the self catering aspect. I much prefer to cook my own food and the more traditional self catering places often don't let you book for just one or two nights.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I'm only one who thinks Airbnb are actively pursuing the 'fuck off to someone else's house and city and make a racket' market with their new TV ads? First it was Party Weekend With The Girls, now it's Take Your Teenagers Somewhere They Can Plug An Electric Guitar Into An Amp And Play Teenage Dirtbag. Would have thought given recent criticism they'd be doing the opposite.

 

[marty21]

I mainly like Airbnb for the self catering aspect. I much prefer to cook my own food and the more traditional self catering places often don't let you book for just one or two nights.

We've been staying in holiday cottages every year since about 1999, have never come across restrictions on stays. We just stayed for a week in a lovely place near Stroud.

 

[marty21]

I've never booked an Airbnb tbf , put off by stories about last minute cancellations & also the trouble they have caused me professionally Council properties can't be used for Airbnb, but that doesn't appear to stop some leaseholders.

 

[frogwoman]

My landlord years ago rented a room as an airbnb once and didn't tell us.

 

[skyscraper101]

My landlord years ago rented a room as an airbnb once and didn't tell us.

What happened? Did some random show up?

 

[Saul Goodman]

What happened? Did some random show up?

Imagine walking into your bathroom one morning and finding a complete stranger in the shower

 

[StoneRoad]

this Beeb item shows up another problem with airbnb type lets

Manchester: Unruly Airbnb guests ruining lives - councillor

Manchester City Council hears that short-term lets are causing misery for city centre residents.

www.bbc.co.uk

Manchester can't be the only place with the problem !

 

[frogwoman]

What happened? Did some random show up?

Yes ... at first he claimed that they were 'friends of his' but then when we spoke to them and also found out the listing on airbnb

 

[frogwoman]

Imagine walking into your bathroom one morning and finding a complete stranger in the shower

Yeah I mean we would find total strangers in the kitchen etc.

 

[StoneRoad]

and another beeb item - about {unnecessary} noise at holiday lets

Owners ordered to stop using Lake District home as holiday let

Neighbours complained of "screaming and shouting" at the Lake District property, a report says.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[BigMoaner]

Please don't say the expectations are on the guests? Like tidying up after yourself in some burger bars etc.

Consumer and labour in one. See also self check outs at super markets. Why pay someone a living when we can just get the consumer to do it.

 

[InArduisFouette]

Airbnb sounds like it might have been a good deal early on in its life, but lately it sounds like a nightmare to deal with. Being spied on, ridiculous demands from the hosts, review fuckery, arbitrary and baseless blacklisting of customers, and so on.

Paying more for a regular hotel sounds like a better deal to me. Most of them are willing to provide some semblance of actual service, you don't have to wash up or clean anything, and if something goes wrong then they'll give you freebies (at least in my experience, last time I got sent to an already-occupied room and was gifted a couple of free drinks for my troubles).

it's the same wankerish attitude as we saw fro mthe Buy to Let Amateur property tyccoons in the 2000s