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If they need a fixed fee they should set bounds on the duration of stay. They keep shifting the burden to users when it should be on hosts. AirBnb hosts have h
by micromacrofoot 3y ago
If they need a fixed fee they should set bounds on the duration of stay. They keep shifting the burden to users when it should be on hosts.
AirBnb hosts have had their hands on the scale for too long now because the company is terrified of a mass exodus of hosts (many of whom act just as entitled as your average landlord, who will beat every penny out of you). It used to be a much better service for the users.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoBut there aren't bounds on the duration of the stay. Many places will take you for 1 day or 4 weeks, and there is still just a single cleaning fee. FWIW I think pretty much every vacation rental I booked pre-AirBnB (or, for that matter, pre-Internet) charged a cleaning fee in a similar manner.
- micromacrofoot 3y agoRight, I'm suggesting duration bounds as a host-focused solution to a problem that's been frustratingly shifted to users. Better for the user experience to limit the stay to 3 nights (and thus removing it from results for single nights) instead of trying to put a $200 cleaning fee on an overnighter, IMO.