Re:The Hotel Industry’s Plan to Combat Airbnb
by SilasX on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:28PM
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I know it's going to be controversial but I learned this the hard way. I don't travel a lot but just did a Europe tour over 4 Airbnbs with a friend.
All four had some key distribution problem that required talking to the host, who was not always reachable. (Oh, you just enter this code ... nope, doesn't work.) They also usually only have one spare set of keys so if we wanted to return at different times, no luck. One host wanted the late check-in fee paid in cash and wouldn't issue a receipt for it, even a PM/text with "yeah, got your $X late fee". (reported)
All four had some key distribution problem that required talking to the host, who was not always reachable. (Oh, you just enter this code ... nope, doesn't work.) They also usually only have one spare set of keys so if we wanted to return at different times, no luck. One host wanted the late check-in fee paid in cash and wouldn't issue a receipt for it, even a PM/text with "yeah, got your $X late fee". (reported)