Re:Airbnb Is Different Now
by corbezzoli on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:24AM
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Totally agree, I'm just saying it's unfortunately a standard across the industry, it's not just Booking. You're always allowed to set "show full price", which is then remembered after the first visit. It's the first thing I do whenever I compare prices across sites.
Overall I find Booking pretty neat, once you get past all the "449 people booked this room in the last 4 seconds" bs.
Having said that, Agoda has the lowest price most of the time, so I put with their bs even more willingly.
Re:Airbnb Is Different Now
by user3939382 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:13AM
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It’s a standard in the US because of lacking consumer protection laws. Some countries don’t allow these companies to play these games and the advertised rates are the real rates.
Re:Airbnb Is Different Now
by mardifoufs on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:34PM
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They do the exact same thing in Europe. Booking is a European corporation too.
Re:Airbnb Is Different Now
by user3939382 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @12:54PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resort_fee#Countries_where_res...
Europe
European Union regulations say that mandatory fees must be included in advertised prices, making hidden resort fees illegal.[118][119]
That doesn’t make it not suck. Not hiding fees doesn’t mean “we always show what’s legally required.”
As a customer I want to know how much things cost. It’s a pain to not know taxes when shopping rooms. Especially since I rarely know city taxes and some hotels have different taxes because they are “resort” or “convention” or whatever tax rules exist for a particular jurisdiction.