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Can't scroll past an air bnb post without stopping in to say fuck air bnb for its role in the housing crisis. It should be banned unless it's owner occupied.

I've been using hotels instead of Airbnb for a while now, and it's most often cheaper or similar price, and better service.

Tell me again why I would ever choose to get a room through AirBnB? Or travel across a city using Uber? Or have my food delivered by GrubHub?

Everyone wants to claim they have no money, and yet all these services needlessly add cost and complexity to what used to be a far more simple and cheaper purchase just a few years ago. I'll take a taxi to my hotel room and pick up my own food thankyouverymuch.

Airbnb is a bane on our society and massive contributer to the housing shortage.

This company needs to get sued into oblivion with their shitty practices and non transparent charges.

Finally. I've seen listings where the cleaning fees double the full cost

Honestly AirBnB used to be cool but now it kinda sucks.

Even though there's now a 'total price' option, booking a basic hotel is still less painful. There's cleaning fees and a lot of hosts have stupid requirements like you have to do the laundry or take out the trash or whatever. If I'm paying hotel level fees I want hotel level service. Plus every now and then you hear about one of these places having cameras in the unit. Fuck that.

"Yup yup, we hear you loud and clear, everyone, it's all good bro"

[Doesn't turn full price on by default]

Incoming follow-up, if challenged...

"So we actually paid an expert consultant to tell us that a percentage of our user population actually wants to be actively deceived whenever they use our service. So by default we will still obscure these non-negotiable fees that you will definitely pay in the final pricing."

It's great playing a cleaning fee when the host expects you to strip the bed and take it to the laundry, empty the bins and leave the place spotless

AirBnB fucking sucks now. There needs to be a term like "slum lords" for AirBnBs. They outsource so many properties to property managers and the house is disgusting PLUS they charge you the cleaning fee.

Just stick with hotels.

The amount the owner often asks you to do yourself would make you think they should be paying you the fee.

Pretty sure it has absolutely nothing to do with user complaints and everything to do with talk of regulation.

It's almost as if they don't want people to use their service.

I will never understand how this is a fucking thing. Let alone so fucking much? Don't want to have to pay to clean up after your guests leave? Then I guess you are in the wrong fucking business assholes.

It was only just recently that the flood of “Airbnbust” articles seemed to abate a little. I can never tell if Airbnb is going great, or it’s terrible.

For my own part, I’m happy for this update. Despite the complaints, Airbnb is usually a great option for families with little kids, where the alternative is usually “book multiple hotel rooms, and split the parents between them.” Price transparency is good, and I won’t book a place that has a task list for me.

I wonder which other fees won't be rolled into the total price

There is a level of hostage taking that makes you question the whole logic of digital economy. If one side (customers) are complaining and the other side is not (house owners), then, the madness is not that bad. But this is insanity. Both sides complain every time yet keep going back to the hostage situation.