Once in a while you can find a good Airbnb which you would not find an equal to in the many hotel apps. But over time, more and more legitimate 'homestay' room

Once in a while you can find a good Airbnb which you would not find an equal to in the many hotel apps. But over time, more and more legitimate 'homestay' rooms can be listed on real hotel apps. I'm a hotels.com or booking or agoda user, and I've booked dozens of stays in the last few years. My partner has some hippie fetish which leads her to start with Airbnb in searches for stays. 9 times out of 10, the Airbnb opportunities are far less than they appear to be. Less often, the hotel options are. The ancient original Airbnb idea was good - someone comes and stays at your place (while you are there), and you make a little extra money while they get a decent place to stay. But unsurprisingly that got corrupted into maximizing profits. Airbnb also recognized early that they could not make $$$ with their original idea, so they pivoted to the broader "take my whole apartment" concept which is the current norm.