Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minute from $100 to $1k

Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by zerkten on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:50PM (#32194954)

AirBnB makes sense from my experience for a very select set of experiences which require considerable research. In these situations, I wasn't optimizing for lower costs which most travelers are probably doing. Examples:

1. Several nights on a houseboat in Amsterdam.

2. Two weeks in Cape May, NJ in a walkable location to the beach with enough space to bring kids, laundry facilities, and a garden to entertain friends joining us.

3. Long weekend with extended family in the middle of Harper's Ferry, WV.

Finding and organizing these experiences would be harder without AirBnB. There is no way I'd use AirBnB for a regular trip though.

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Re:Airbnb will up its penalty for hosts who cancel last-minu... by ghaff on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:53PM (#32195762)

>I wasn't optimizing for lower costs which most travelers are probably doing

I suspect that, as with many other marketplaces with suppliers of widely differing quality (e.g. Amazon), there are a lot of people who optimize for price and then are surprised when they get burned on deals that seem too good to be true.

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