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"Lower your trip cost with amenities like WiFi, stocked kitchens, and free parking." I'm LOL'ing! Airbnb is often several times more expensive than the opaque

by cnst 11y ago

"Lower your trip cost with amenities like WiFi, stocked kitchens, and free parking." I'm LOL'ing! Airbnb is often several times more expensive than the opaque 3* hotel deals on Priceline! Whatever they do, lowering trip costs is not one of them! Just to give you an example -- I was able to book several 3* hotels in Austin during SxSW for about $50 per night, all the while craigslist and such were at $200/ni for one person, or $300/ni for two. Heck, some guy was even renting out his trailer for 1.2k$/week, or something like that!

dntrkv 11y ago
My experience has been the exact opposite. I'm not a heavy user, but I've stayed at an airbnb at least 5 times now and each one of those stays were significantly cheaper than a comparable hotel, but with a way better experience in almost every way. Also, finding multi room hotel suites for a reasonable price is usually next to impossible.
- cnst 11y ago
  > My experience has been the exact opposite. I'm not a heavy user, but I've stayed at an airbnb at least 5 times now and each one of those stays were significantly cheaper than a comparable hotel, but with a way better experience in almost every way. Are you comparing published list prices, or the opaque prices through priceline / hotwire? Because I was clearly talking about opaque, which is a better comparison with Airbnb anyways, since you never really know what you're getting. > Also, finding multi room hotel suites for a reasonable price is usually next to impossible. You must be a novice hotel traveller, then. Pretty much all Hyatt House and Hyatt Place are suites that essential have two rooms (House would even have a door between them often), as well as Residence Inn and SpringHill Suites. Courtyard by Marriott has full suite rooms, too; surprisingly, very often the price difference between two-room suite and non-suite is like a symbolic $10 or $20, although you generally don't get any discounts if you require a suite, and can't use points for them, either. Hampton Inn (by Hilton) has two-room suites as an upgrade, too. I'm pretty sure other brands do, too. Heck, you could even go opaque for two rooms, and ask for a connecting door, which most decent hotels always do have.
qzcx 11y ago
It completely depends on where you go in my experience. I took a trip to Taiwan and the airbnb places were way better/cheaper than the hotels we stayed at. Also why are you talking about Craigslist? This is airbnb...
- cnst 11y ago
  > Also why are you talking about Craigslist? This is airbnb... And Airbnb is even more expensive than Craigslist. At least here in Austin, the hosts figure that the extra security etc should come for free, and they shall maintain their supposed margins, so, they pass all of the fees back to the guests!
jedrek 11y ago
We only rent full flats when we travel with my GF and have been able to always get in under 50€ in Berlin and Barcelona (including a 2 room flat 400m from the beach for 43€/night). The one time I got a 60€/night hotel in Berlin it was literally in the middle of nowhere and the front desk staff didn't speak English.

by cnst 11y ago

dntrkv 11y ago

My experience has been the exact opposite. I'm not a heavy user, but I've stayed at an airbnb at least 5 times now and each one of those stays were significantly cheaper than a comparable hotel, but with a way better experience in almost every way. Also, finding multi room hotel suites for a reasonable price is usually next to impossible.

cnst 11y ago
> My experience has been the exact opposite. I'm not a heavy user, but I've stayed at an airbnb at least 5 times now and each one of those stays were significantly cheaper than a comparable hotel, but with a way better experience in almost every way. Are you comparing published list prices, or the opaque prices through priceline / hotwire? Because I was clearly talking about opaque, which is a better comparison with Airbnb anyways, since you never really know what you're getting. > Also, finding multi room hotel suites for a reasonable price is usually next to impossible. You must be a novice hotel traveller, then. Pretty much all Hyatt House and Hyatt Place are suites that essential have two rooms (House would even have a door between them often), as well as Residence Inn and SpringHill Suites. Courtyard by Marriott has full suite rooms, too; surprisingly, very often the price difference between two-room suite and non-suite is like a symbolic $10 or $20, although you generally don't get any discounts if you require a suite, and can't use points for them, either. Hampton Inn (by Hilton) has two-room suites as an upgrade, too. I'm pretty sure other brands do, too. Heck, you could even go opaque for two rooms, and ask for a connecting door, which most decent hotels always do have.

qzcx 11y ago

It completely depends on where you go in my experience. I took a trip to Taiwan and the airbnb places were way better/cheaper than the hotels we stayed at. Also why are you talking about Craigslist? This is airbnb...

cnst 11y ago
> Also why are you talking about Craigslist? This is airbnb... And Airbnb is even more expensive than Craigslist. At least here in Austin, the hosts figure that the extra security etc should come for free, and they shall maintain their supposed margins, so, they pass all of the fees back to the guests!

jedrek 11y ago

We only rent full flats when we travel with my GF and have been able to always get in under 50€ in Berlin and Barcelona (including a 2 room flat 400m from the beach for 43€/night). The one time I got a 60€/night hotel in Berlin it was literally in the middle of nowhere and the front desk staff didn't speak English.