Indeed. I tried to give airbnb a chance on multiple occasions, but it's always more expensive and worse than hotels. In airbnb you depend on someone to be a goo

Indeed. I tried to give airbnb a chance on multiple occasions, but it's always more expensive and worse than hotels. In airbnb you depend on someone to be a good person and to arrive on time, you need to arrange meeting them (which might not be easy in a foreign country), you never know how honest they are, etc. It's inter-personal communication when you don't want any, you just want to pay money and get a room. I literally see no upsides. In a hotel, you book it on any of the number of hotel websites, you walk up to the reception, you give them your ID and bank card, they give you your key and show you into your room. It's always a very predictable experience. Airbnb's pricing structure is deceptive, too — you always see "per night" prices when searching, but when you open a page for any particular property, there's suddenly like 5 extra fees tucked on and it's sometimes double the price you expected.