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Your family was asked to do about 17 minutes of convenient, easy preparatory tidying that most considerate people would do even without being asked (as in a hot
by swatcoder 3y ago
Your family was asked to do about 17 minutes of convenient, easy preparatory tidying that most considerate people would do even without being asked (as in a hotel or when visiting a friend).
Yet you benefited from coming into a home that, presumably, had all of its floors vaccuumed, its kitchen and bathroom surfaces sanititized, its linens folded and/or readied, etc. Whether it was the host or a service, somebody followed up behind you and likely spent at least several hours preparing the place for the next guest. And instead of it being bundled into your daily room rate like in a hotel, since it's only being done once per stay, it was applied as a per-stay cleaning fee. That's eminently fair.
There are about a thousand of things to complain loundly about with AirBnB and countless things in life more broadly -- being asked to tidy up a little bit or to pay a per-stay fee to cover cleaning? Not really a compelling one.
- noslenwerdna 3y agoI think the point is it should be part of the upfront cost when searching, rather than something that shows up at the end.
- swatcoder 3y agoYes, that is one of the many valid complaints one might have with AirBnb and AirBnb browsing is much less frustrating in the markets that have forced them to do that. But I don't read that as what the above commenter was complaining about.
- linehedonist 3y agoYou empty the trash from your hotel room? Really?
- swatcoder 3y agoIf there's an appropriate place for me to do so, yeah. And if there's not (as often), I at least gather all the trash together and make that task as easy as possible for whoever's stuck with the thankless job of cleaning up after me. It's wild and disheartening that people here feel justified in not doing basic tidying of whatever mess they made when traveling or that it's some big demand of a host to ask them to.