Actually Airbnb is a terrible name because it conjures up a distasteful (and inaccurate) mental image of what their service provides. An Airbed is a horrible r

Actually Airbnb is a terrible name because it conjures up a distasteful (and inaccurate) mental image of what their service provides. An Airbed is a horrible rubber thing that you sleep on at a friend's house that deflates in the night leaving you lying on the floor surrounded by sagginess. Therefore an Airbed-n-breakfast must be a place where you can expect to get that sort of experience, but for a price. That mental picture kept me from even bothering to check out the website the first dozen or so times they made the front page here. I'd wager it's costing them a lot of money from people who simply refuse to check them out because they don't want to sleep on an airbed. Notice that none of the listings on airbnb show anything like a trashed studio apartment where you'll be expected to sleep on an old couch with dead pizza boxes under it, but ask anybody on the street to describe an "airbed and breakfast" and that's what you'll get. But if you don't force yourself to ignore the terrible name and give them a shot, you'll never find out. For my money I'd rather be called something nosensical than something off-putting.