The price shown on the map or per day does not take into account the cleaning fee or the local taxes, or the booking fee. So if the host has a base rate of $45

The price shown on the map or per day does not take into account the cleaning fee or the local taxes, or the booking fee. So if the host has a base rate of $45/day, when you go to book it it recalculates it as base rate + cleaning rate + tax rate + airbnb rate. Then the dates specific can also have different pricing set by the host, so it becomes base rate(days) + special rate(days) + cleaning rate + Tax rate (local city/state) + airbnb fee (10-15%) Meaning when you use the user interface, and select a schedule it does the above - it should try to do the mean average and show it on the map, e.g. a one week / 7 day stay, base no special rates set by host should be $45(7)+$20 cleaning rate+5% tax rate+airbnb 10%= so, 457= 315. Add the cleaning fee of $20, so it's $335. 5% tax, 16.75, total of 351.75 10% of that is 35.17, grand total of 386.92 but it will display $45/day or "$315" a week, while the true price per day is $55.27 or $386.92. Now that example isn't so egregious, but when you deal with reservations in the thousands, having "15%" added in misc fees make sit feel like "what happened to the original rate displayed" It's not truly transparent until you go to the listing, set the dates exact, and then see the first number and then continue through the workflow to check out and pay. If you don't have dates set, then it will always* show the lowest rates on the listing or on the map aggregate, which, sure, I get no dates means it can be the lowest, but the customer path from there to higher fees and prices really makes hotels seem more "honest" in pricing even though they sometimes hide the state/city taxes, and some platforms like booking.com won't even include them at all so you have to pay for them at check in! tl;dr price shown first is never the price you pay on airbnb. 500+ reviews, yeah.