Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.

AIRBNB HOSTS ARE melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,” like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”

The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20, quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday. Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up after themselves.

“As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments, our homes, and, in many cases, our personal living spaces,” one person wrote in Airbnb’s official forum for hosts. “The problem is that Airbnb increasingly expects hosts to accept the risks while limiting our ability to protect ourselves.”

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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

there are hotels with suites that have kitchens

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    Yes, and those are the exception, not the rule. Even apart from that though, you're sort of expected to be somewhat tidy in a hotel. You aren't meant to be a slob and just trash it. You should have trash in the receptacles and such. So in a suite with a kitchen, "rules" aside, I think most people would consider it polite to at least have dishes in the sink, and probably rinsed off. Like if all the dishes were covered in hard crusty food and all over the place, that would be considered rude. I don't see an issue with codifying expectations like that into rules, and I don't think that rinsing the dishes, loading the dishwasher, and starting it is honestly that difficult of a task. It's just things I would do anyways after eating. I don't want a bunch of nasty dishes hanging out in the sink.

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