Nothing can fix Airbnb. It used to be a cheap alternative to hotels but now they are around the same price range (especially with the cleaning fees). If you are going to stay a couple of days then Airbnb starts to make sense but for short stays it’s just pointless. The biggest difference (and the reason why I stopped using Airbnb altogether) is that if you stay at a hotel or even a motel, you are treated like a guest a customer. But Airbnb hosts treat you like they are doing you a favor by letting you stay there even though you’re paying for the place. They make up 20 chores like you have to put the towels in the washer, you have to put the dishes in the dishwasher. Then what was the whole point of the cleaning fee. Just stay at a hotel.
Airbnb really needs to crack down on chores, and start treating hosts the way ebay treats sellers. If you wanna run an unregulated hotel you’d better fucking act like a hotel manager, not somebody’s mom. They’ve got people climbing over each other to be hosts, so they can afford to give bad ones the shaft.
The researchers studied how drinking affects different people. They looked at three groups: light drinkers, heavy social drinkers, and those with alcohol use disorder (AUD). At first, people with AUD seemed less impaired after drinking a moderate amount, but when they drank a lot like they usually do, they became significantly impaired in their motor and thinking skills. Even worse, their impairment didn’t go away even after three hours. The study shows that experienced drinkers with AUD may feel like they can handle more alcohol, but too much still affects them badly. This research could help people understand the risks of drinking too much and lead to better ways to prevent harm caused by excessive alcohol use.
Was putting 10 hours a day in my work before all that. Still putting the same hours in. Have obviously less purchase power. I don’t see no free time in this… I even had to learn some crafts to survive the inflation so it’s even less “me time” than before…
“Hey, what if we did Uber but for Hotels, except that we make it so its as expensive as a hotel and impose lots of ridiculous rules and expectations of our guests?”
I don’t even look at AB&B anymore when I travel. It used to be a bargain, but between ruining local real estate markets and the general asshattery of most AB&B owners, I’ll just stick with hotels.
One time I shared an Airbnb to try to cut costs on a trip. I got there around 4pm and hated it so much that by noon the next day I had already booked a hotel.
I just do king suites now since they’re about the same price as a double but include free breakfast, a kitchenette, extra pullout couch, etc. Cheaper than an Airbnb with the same (or more) amenities.
Well yeah, what are we waiting to work ourselves to death? Where this stupid idea of having free time came from? What the shareholders gonna think about it??
I suppose this kind of “journalism” has the only scope of making americans feel better.
Good. Cleaning fees and booking fees are clearly being abused to game listings to show low prices that instantly double or even triple when you go to check out.
Frankly Airbnb is already pretty scammy.
I have maybe used it 3 times in the last decade. Run into scams at least once where a rental in Denver/Aurora claimed there was AC and the compressor had been removed. But they still had the air handler and thermostats in and turned on. They also put brand new tower fans in each room because it was hot in the house (~87F or 30C) in the sleeping area. Then when we tried to contact them they were suddenly unavailable. So we just left and filed a complaint auth Airbnb which turned into a giant finger pointing session where the owner claimed we cursed them out etc. tried to get the negative review removed with similar tactics too.
Took a lot of effort to recoup the money.
The second rental (well third in the timeline, but second scam) the renter tried to claim we left the place a mess to try and keep the deposit on top of a cleaning fee. Despite they had instructions to do everything from dishes to washing the sheets, not disclosed when we arrived, which we did. But somehow still wanted to hold a 600 dollar cleaning deposit.
Idk what Airbnb does. I will never use them again. Just a total waste of time.
I haven’t run into the same issues as you, but the prices are just silly now. Seriously, why am I shelling out for cleaning fees at a place where I still gotta do half the housework? Meanwhile, hotels pretty much got it all covered for about the same price. It just doesn’t make sense.
Oh totaly agree. Thats why my third visit was like “is this just how people are now?”
I mean, it hit all the feels of a scam, but i didnt feel so much targeted as this was just how they did business. As if they were banking on us just not really having the energy to fight the BS and red tape. We even took pictures of the place at arrival and leaving. Mainly due to the first experience. But even getting someone at Airbnb to LOOK at the photos, and accept them as proof of anything was a tough haul.
The economics just don't work for short stays. It's expensive to clean an entire house, particularly if that involves washing multiple sets of sheets and towels.
Hotels are set up to be efficient at that with commercial laundry equipment and lots of identical rooms with no travel time between them.
Airbnb is almost always better value if you need multiple days and multiple rooms, but if you need one room for 2 nights then it can only really compete if labor costs are really low
For me, the benefit of Airbnb comes when traveling with a couple of younger kids. The added space and roominess + full kitchen is worth its weight in gold vs a hotel. And I say this coming off a recent vacation where we tried hotels again (including Embassy Suites). But if I’m solo, a hotel is often a better option.
Agreed with all your points. I used to love Airbnb because it was so much cheaper than staying in a hotel and would give you access to stay in areas much farther off the beaten path. But the last three times I have stayed in an Airbnb I or someone else from my party ended up on the phone for hours with them because the host blatantly lied about something in their listing or otherwise was inhospitable during the stay. Hotels are just way more consistent and when something does go wrong during your stay, you can at least count on a decent customer service experience.
I’ve never used Airbnb, but I’ve read enough stories like yours that I never will. It seemed okay for the first few years, but then people learned how to take advantage of the system. Now you never know if you’re doing business with an honest, fair person or a scammer… and you can’t count on the company to have your back.
How does this practically work? Russia fires all the executives, replaces them with their own and redirect the profits? No impact to the remaining employees?
Probably something like that. Heck, probably most of the local executives are Russian, so they were probably in on the government take over. Now they are running the company for Putin. Danone and Carlsberg deserves to have their operations taken over since they decided to continue to run their business in that company.
It is fantastic that a trans women can breastfeed. It clearly appears the public needs to be educated about this, but also people need to mind their own fucking business.
If they worry about adhering to natural order, many of those geniuses wouldn’t have made it to adulthood to worry about it in the first place. Just stroll through a really old cemetery and it will break your heart.
Did you… like… miss the HUGE protests that lasted MONTHS in Iran, and the violent reaction to the protests the regime had, due to the morality police killing a girl who was refusing to wear a headscarf?
This isn’t and never was a “money grab”. This is an entire populace struggling against a murderous and oppressive theocratic dictatorship.
Not to mention hundreds that died during the protests, several death sentences issued and thousands more arrested by the state for participating in the protests
Perhaps asking in a wefwef community/magazine would be more productive if you really want an answer. Otherwise, it seems like you’re just complaining about seeing someone because you personally aren’t interested. Those of us commenting and upvoting, however, are.
and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in the U.S., Truth Social, which had a weekly active user base of 1 million as of last week.
First off, I do not like having this information. Secondly,
Still ahead for the app are larger improvements like a following feed
Imagine. A platform whose main functionality is and always has been content from followed users, but they consented to release without the follow button. I don't understand why that's anything but decimating to their usage. Even more confusing when you find there are already multiple avenues to buy bot followers, which may be what's happening in India. They could just be preparing their market (tagging @stopthatgirl7 so I don't have to split my train of thought into redundant comments)
I'd be very interested to know what Instagram's sign-ups look like. It's nothing to say that threads got X many users when doing that entails having an instagram. What's the split here? Has there been an increase in people making those for the purpose of Threads, or is this just existing users branching out towards every available opportunity? Because not doing that would only logically put them at a disadvantage if their goal is visibility.
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