Airbnb's CEO said that he's heard guests "loud and clear" that pricing on the platform isn't transparent and "checkout tasks are a pain."

Airbnb is adding cleaning fees to a new ‘total price’ of bookings in search results after people complained listings were misleading::Airbnb’s CEO said that he’s heard guests “loud and clear” that pricing on the platform isn’t transparent and “checkout tasks are a pain.”

    • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      2 years ago

      Doubt.

      Quick google search shows quite a few hotel rooms under $100/night. Divide that with 1 or 2 other people and you’re talking about having a clean, safe place to stay with no other headaches for the night for roughly the cost of a reasonable meal.

      • blue_zephyr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        2 years ago

        And yet it happened…

        We were sleeping with 5 of us, at that point you simply can’t beat a cheap AirBnB for price.

        Frankly I trust my real-life experience literally doing it over your quick Google search.

        • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          I can believe you - people when travelling are so used to hotels they’re stuck in that “Hotel Room” mindset, which is great if it’s 2 people, or 2 couples that share a room. I don’t think many people have looked into “larger accommodations” so the “economy of scale” as it were can kick in. And I can see renting an entire house if you’ve got enough people going, for long enough, to be more economical. I know it has been for 1week or so. It’s hard to compare most hotels where people tend to stay for less than 5 days IME, and have less than 4 people to larger group trips.