This is also my experience, I find Airbnb to be more expensive and not cheaper than booking through their competition and often times the same property will be

This is also my experience, I find Airbnb to be more expensive and not cheaper than booking through their competition and often times the same property will be listed on Airbnb but 15% cheaper on HomeAway. This summer I made a trip to Spain where we ended up staying on a 4 star hotel with breakfast on the beach we wanted for what would have costed to rent a house of similar feel.