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It's simple(and I'm not arguing against you, just adding further). Hotels were cfated to fill a niche. Airbnb added "by a computer" after the essentially. So
by marak830 3y ago
It's simple(and I'm not arguing against you, just adding further).
Hotels were cfated to fill a niche. Airbnb added "by a computer" after the essentially.
So many things they bypasswd were solved issues, or non issues.
The actual value add core, is so slender, that only the absolute breathless could have had something to market.
Fyi I have used their services greater than 10 times, and frankly, I would have been served better by using a hotel, each time.
- andreareina 3y agoAirbnb is good for its original raison d'etre: spare bedrooms. When it's whole units you're operating a (probably un- or poorly-regulated) hotel and competing against professionals.
- carlmr 3y agoWith groups they're still somewhat unbeatable. Usually the price of hotel rooms scales roughly linearly with the number of people you have with you. With 6-8 people airbnb is almost always less than half the price of a hotel. And you can cook together, which often adds to the savings, as well as having a common room to hang out in the evening. Hotels are usually not that nice to hang out in.
- Glawen 3y agoI use Airbnb for booking holiday home, that's unbeatable indeed and we can cook.
- firesteelrain 3y agoPlaces like Pigeon Forge, TN have condos/hotels where you can cook as a mini extended stay.
- Glawen 3y agoThat's what I'm looking for: a cheap bedroom at someone's place for a night in the middle of nowhere, it used to be their core business. I never found one, so we plan our trip to stop in big towns to get an hotel.
- smegsicle 3y ago> an hotel 'hotel' gets a hard 'h', so it's "a hotel" btw
- zht 3y agoIs it inconceivable that folks might come from places where the H in hotel is silent?
- smegsicle 3y agonot inconceivable, but i would figure more likely to be a holdover from a first language other than english
- andreareina 3y agoGetting into weeds nobody needs to, I'd probably not think anything about someone saying "an 'otel". As in I wouldn't even notice.
- Glawen 3y agoThat's exactly my issue. Thanks to the previous fellow, I now know the rule and will remember it.
- iamthemonster 3y agoCould be cockney.
- smegsicle 3y agoyou're right i just looked it up in 'websters unabridged english' and it's right there
- Glawen 3y agoThanks
- 3y ago
- wkat4242 3y agoYeah the original premise was great. When it started being an industry, that's when it started going wrong. Ruining city centers with stag parties in residential buildings. Inflating house prices. It's why we can't have nice things :(