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You have completely the wrong expectation of how Airbnb works. The hosts are randoms and Airbnb has no way to deliver a consistent quality experience like a hot
by aianus 11y ago
You have completely the wrong expectation of how Airbnb works. The hosts are randoms and Airbnb has no way to deliver a consistent quality experience like a hotel. Airbnb is like eBay, not Amazon.
You need to realize that when you get the last apartment in a city at conference-time (almost certainly not a superhost with good reviews), you're obviously taking a big gamble that it doesn't work out in order to save a few bucks.
> so we had to shell out 9 nights of walk-in rate hotel fees
So in this worst-case scenario you wound up in the same place as you would have if Airbnb didn't exist? Cry me a river.
- bachmeier 11y ago> So in this worst-case scenario you wound up in the same place as you would have if Airbnb didn't exist? Cry me a river. Worst case scenario for this story is that the driver takes them out of town, shoots them, and dumps their bodies into a river.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoNo, if AirBNB didn't exist, they would have booked at a hotel in advance and saved money and hassle.
- ap3 11y agoThen why didn't they airbnb in advance? I just did airbnb for the first time - it's been great so far, but hotels were always plan B. I just wanted something different. I liked that I got to see reviews and logs of options for whole condos. Six people in a 3Bd/3ba condo in Cancun and I'm paying less than for a vanilla hilton hotel room with a queen bed.