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77% of nights booked were for entire homes ( not spare rooms ). I would have guessed this to be much higher, like 95+ or something. That’s interesting and I g

77% of nights booked were for entire homes ( not spare rooms ). I would have guessed this to be much higher, like 95+ or something. That’s interesting and I guess the big thing that makes this different than vrbo if they can grow the spare room side much more over time

user5994461 6y ago
I think the number is bullshit. They can't tell the difference between a room and a full home. At least that's my experience when I was trying to search on the site. There was little filtering available and the owners were listing their properties as anything.
- jjj123 6y ago
  Really? I’ve never had this issue and I’ve stayed in dozens of listings. I’m sure this could vary by price/location though.
  - user5994461 6y ago
    My experience is that you have read the listing extremely carefully trying to devise what is it about. Is it a whole flat, or a room in a property with the landlord living in, or a room in a property fulled rented on airbnb (how many people?), or a bed in a bunk of beds (yes that's a thing). There's listings for everything and quite a few are misleading. It doesn't help that you have no idea what is the normal price range when traveling abroad and may not speak the language very well. If you're interested by the way. My counter experience renting a flat on airbnb over the summer, is that guests are evaluating everything they could use including beds and couches and ground space. The guest renting a one bedroom could be anything from a person or a couple to a family (maybe with extended family/cousins joining in) to a group of many friends. It's always a surprise whether there will be 1 or 6 people showing up.
afterburner 6y ago
How often is it the case where a house is split into many units though? They're all for rent, but none are for the whole house. Yet the whole house is being rented in pieces.

user5994461 6y ago

I think the number is bullshit. They can't tell the difference between a room and a full home. At least that's my experience when I was trying to search on the site. There was little filtering available and the owners were listing their properties as anything.

jjj123 6y ago
Really? I’ve never had this issue and I’ve stayed in dozens of listings. I’m sure this could vary by price/location though.
- user5994461 6y ago
  My experience is that you have read the listing extremely carefully trying to devise what is it about. Is it a whole flat, or a room in a property with the landlord living in, or a room in a property fulled rented on airbnb (how many people?), or a bed in a bunk of beds (yes that's a thing). There's listings for everything and quite a few are misleading. It doesn't help that you have no idea what is the normal price range when traveling abroad and may not speak the language very well. If you're interested by the way. My counter experience renting a flat on airbnb over the summer, is that guests are evaluating everything they could use including beds and couches and ground space. The guest renting a one bedroom could be anything from a person or a couple to a family (maybe with extended family/cousins joining in) to a group of many friends. It's always a surprise whether there will be 1 or 6 people showing up.

afterburner 6y ago

How often is it the case where a house is split into many units though? They're all for rent, but none are for the whole house. Yet the whole house is being rented in pieces.