I've always balanced my usage between Abnb and hotels. As hotels fulfilling the role of resort vacation or business trip overnight stay. Weekend trips or city crawling vacation I usually stay with Airbnb. I relate to your statement that you never know what expects you.

There's also something that no one talks about this short term sublets is that the hosts' neighbors are the ones who have to deal with most of the annoyance of having a new tenet every week or so.