Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.
AIRBNB HOSTS ARE melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,” like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”
The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20, quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday. Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up after themselves.
“As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments, our homes, and, in many cases, our personal living spaces,” one person wrote in Airbnb’s official forum for hosts. “The problem is that Airbnb increasingly expects hosts to accept the risks while limiting our ability to protect ourselves.”
They only make sense when you have a lot of people you want under one roof, like a family reunion.
We used to rent airbnb for a while, but shit like what they just stopped pushed us back to hotels. Plus all of the layers of bullshit fees on top of all the weird rules.
I might reconsider because it was nice to have a whole house when the entire family comes.
Even then, once you get to about 4 beds it becomes way cheaper to just rent an actual event space.
And, the plan for sleeping…?
Reunions often involve travel.
How many people are you trying to fit? How many beds? As I said, it doesn’t take many beds for Airbnb to start getting stupid expensive.
If you can share bedrooms you can share hotel rooms. Most hotels allow you to book group packages. Many hotels also have event spaces. There’s also campgrounds, resorts, cabins, and so on.
I honestly believe a sizable chunk of Airbnb’s business comes from people who haven’t put much thought into it and just go with Airbnb as a default. That’s probably the goal of their marketing.