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I never understood the appeal of AirBnB. All these points about having a kitchen or living room to hangout sounded negative to me. But someone finally explained

I never understood the appeal of AirBnB. All these points about having a kitchen or living room to hangout sounded negative to me. But someone finally explained. It is vacation vs travel. I’m a vacationer, I don’t want to deal with parking, cooking food, cleaning the place. On vacations, I just want to relax and probably spend as much time out doing things as possible. When tired and not sleepy, I rather hangout in hotel lobby or by pool. Travelers want to experience new places like locals. So AirBnB appeals to them because they can do grocery shopping in local stores, experience different parts of city that normal tourists don’t.

CalRobert 3y ago
Not to mention I'm not always there to sightsee. Last year we went back to visit family in California and with Airbnb I was able to book a house for a month around the corner from my sister, so our kids could play with their cousins for the first time in years. It was a boring residential neighbourhood and not a place you'd find a hotel.
jmye 3y ago
> It is vacation vs travel. Thank you! My preference is always for an AirBNB when I go skiing or want to go work someplace that isn’t my house for a week, and you sort of nailed the reason. When I was in Madrid for a buddy’s wedding, on the other hand, my preference was 5* hotel. That dichotomy makes sense and isn’t how I’d thought about it before.