I used to use AirBnB extensively when I was a digital nomad. After the pandemic I took my wife (I was newly married post-pandemic) and my stepdaughter on their

I used to use AirBnB extensively when I was a digital nomad. After the pandemic I took my wife (I was newly married post-pandemic) and my stepdaughter on their first international trip and had booked presumably nice AirBnBs to stay at. Every single AirBnB was somehow not matching its description, had problems, and was owned or managed by a bland company where we had no interaction with our “hosts”. We cancelled the rest of the reservations and switched to 5-star hotels for the rest of trip. Since then we only stay in nice hotels for these trips, and I can often do so for less money than an AirBnB would cost but with clear service and quality guarantees. Even 5-star hotels are slipping in quality these days, but are more worth the money than overpriced AirBnBs that don’t match their description or promise.