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I've seen all the comments about cleaning fees but didn't really believe it until I was looking for a place to spend March break; it's completely ridiculous! Ho

I've seen all the comments about cleaning fees but didn't really believe it until I was looking for a place to spend March break; it's completely ridiculous! How is it that they aren't capped as a % of nightly cost? This is like the outrageous shipping costs of old eBay.

mythhouse 4y ago
you can now chose to see the totals with all the cleaning fees included.
ww520 4y ago
And you still have to clean up before leaving.
streetdumpling 4y ago
Because an Airbnb listing is cleaned every time a new guest checks in, it doesn't matter whether you stay for one night only or 10 nights. It's a fixed cost to the host.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
  Then make it a % of a 1 night stay. A $150 cleaning fee is nonsense. It used to be 20-30.
  - streetdumpling 4y ago
    How much cleaning fee depends on the local market price of cleaning. Depending on how big the place is, $150 is possible. In SF e.g. you can't find a cleaner with $20-30. Hotels pay less on cleaner labor because it's more efficient (cleaners are probably full time employees cleaning all rooms every day anyway). And why it would be % of night rate? Cleaning fee is flat for one cleaning service.
    - mattm 4y ago
      The owner can clean it themselves or the cleaning fee should be built into the overall price, you know, like hotels.
    - rwalle 4y ago
      Only makes sense if the host is actually paying professional cleaning service, or doing it themselves at the level provided at those services, after each stay. And I am very sure that's not the case 99% of the time based on my own experience. I'd be thankful if the kitchen counter is clean and there is no trash. That's actually not a low bar.
      - motoxpro 4y ago
        You've stayed in 100 Airbnb's and only one of them had a clean kitchen counter and the trash taken out? That's dedication to a service and also extremely bad luck.
      - tw98521358 4y ago
        All the vrbos we have been at were professionally cleaned. Maybe the low end is more scammy
  - tw98521358 4y ago
    It costs about 200$ to get my house cleaned so it seems like a pretty standard cost especially for a larger place.
rograndom 4y ago
We had a place booked on Airbnb near the end of the summer. Had a deposit paid, and the overall price was a bit steep, but needed to stay in the city at that time. Three weeks out we get an email with the "house rules" including disclosing that the owner would actually be staying in the house and would need to go through the main bedroom to enter and exit the property. We were contemplating what to do with this information as the listing is under "entire place" when a few days later we got an email from Airbnb saying that there was a price adjustment of +$395 for cleaning PER DAY. We had it booked for 5 days so we needed to pay an additional $~2000. That was more than double the original cost. Thankfully we were able to cancel and get our deposit back with just the automated cancellation, but we did get a nasty message from the host that we we reported back to Airbnb.

mythhouse 4y ago

you can now chose to see the totals with all the cleaning fees included.

ww520 4y ago

And you still have to clean up before leaving.

streetdumpling 4y ago

Because an Airbnb listing is cleaned every time a new guest checks in, it doesn't matter whether you stay for one night only or 10 nights. It's a fixed cost to the host.

MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
Then make it a % of a 1 night stay. A $150 cleaning fee is nonsense. It used to be 20-30.
- streetdumpling 4y ago
  How much cleaning fee depends on the local market price of cleaning. Depending on how big the place is, $150 is possible. In SF e.g. you can't find a cleaner with $20-30. Hotels pay less on cleaner labor because it's more efficient (cleaners are probably full time employees cleaning all rooms every day anyway). And why it would be % of night rate? Cleaning fee is flat for one cleaning service.
  - mattm 4y ago
    The owner can clean it themselves or the cleaning fee should be built into the overall price, you know, like hotels.
  - rwalle 4y ago
    Only makes sense if the host is actually paying professional cleaning service, or doing it themselves at the level provided at those services, after each stay. And I am very sure that's not the case 99% of the time based on my own experience. I'd be thankful if the kitchen counter is clean and there is no trash. That's actually not a low bar.
    - motoxpro 4y ago
      You've stayed in 100 Airbnb's and only one of them had a clean kitchen counter and the trash taken out? That's dedication to a service and also extremely bad luck.
    - tw98521358 4y ago
      All the vrbos we have been at were professionally cleaned. Maybe the low end is more scammy
- tw98521358 4y ago
  It costs about 200$ to get my house cleaned so it seems like a pretty standard cost especially for a larger place.

rograndom 4y ago

We had a place booked on Airbnb near the end of the summer. Had a deposit paid, and the overall price was a bit steep, but needed to stay in the city at that time. Three weeks out we get an email with the "house rules" including disclosing that the owner would actually be staying in the house and would need to go through the main bedroom to enter and exit the property. We were contemplating what to do with this information as the listing is under "entire place" when a few days later we got an email from Airbnb saying that there was a price adjustment of +$395 for cleaning PER DAY. We had it booked for 5 days so we needed to pay an additional $~2000. That was more than double the original cost. Thankfully we were able to cancel and get our deposit back with just the automated cancellation, but we did get a nasty message from the host that we we reported back to Airbnb.