Re:Airbnb to halt all marketing, most hiring as losses mount
by Carpetsmoker on Saturday March 28, 2020 @01:19AM
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The biggest plus AirBnB tends to give over hotels is having your own kitchen, and not having to rely on restaurants. In my experience many hotels are essentially just a room with a bed and some uncomfortable furniture; not a great place to be for a week IMHO.
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Re:Airbnb to halt all marketing, most hiring as losses mount
by ornornor on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:28AM
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Except that in Airbnb speak, „fully stocked kitchen“ usually means a half empty humidity caked jar of spice a previous guest left behind, two cracked plates and one fork, and hotplates.
Most places also never looked as advertised: they’re way noisier, dirtier, low quality, and as others have said you have to trek 5 blocks to get and return the key to an automated 7/11 mailbox.
And should you report it to Airbnb, be prepared to stay 45 minutes on the phone every time you call, starting over from scratch because the agents can’t read previous calls notes, to eventually be told that they’ve checked you out, refunded, and good luck finding another place to stay tonight.
I’ll take hotels any day. Fuck Airbnb.