I've done a number of AirBnB stays now including a two week trip to SF and LA with my girlfriend and the whole system is pretty awesome. To some extent you get

I've done a number of AirBnB stays now including a two week trip to SF and LA with my girlfriend and the whole system is pretty awesome. To some extent you get what you pay for but in many ways you get much more. I think I've stayed in five different AirBnB locations now and the houses were as pictured or slightly better, better located than an equivalent hotel and always clean. On two occasions the owners were so awesome (one in Napa brought us wine and cheese every night and warm muffins for breakfast in the morning) that they literally made the holiday. They've done a special thing with AirBnB so kudos to them and I for one welcome their new site design too. Holidays are literal escapism and so much better if the laborious booking process is made more pleasurable too.