Lived abroad for 14 years. Love meeting interesting people from around the world, sharing laughs, stories, and cultural & historical experiences. Stay curious!
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Dinner with your gf when you accidentally smile to the waitress while saying thank you for bringing the extra sauce
The hosts also dramatically underestimate the level of annoyance guests face due to the cleaning - you can try to say how easy it is, but travel is already level 10 stressful and doing domestic chores when your ride to the airport came early and is leaving early with or without you but you need to wash that fucking plate in the sink or their cleaner that you paid an extra fee for will tell the airbnb owner on you and then they will add it to your public review, that other hosts then judge you on, oh thats a great feeling, so great, i love it so much...
Are you guys trying to speed-run your airbnb hospitality businesses into the ground or what? A lot of us already book less with airbnb because of hosts like you and the fear of a bad review.
Running the dishwasher and taking the trash out isn't hard. It's the courteous thing to do. Neither is allowed under this change. FWIW, running the dishwasher is so it's finished by the time the cleaners arrive and they can put things away. Don't be upset when you can't check in early, when there are clean dishes in the dishwasher the next time you stay somewhere, or when the cleaning fee (now part of the total cost) goes up because of this.
One thing I've learned today is that a LOT of Airbnb hosts haven't realized they have competition outside of Airbnb.
A LOT of people use airbnb for 1 to 2 day rentals in some places - i should know, i am one of them. In some cities, this makes a lot of sense. These small cleaning tasks that change for every flat drive us insane - the last 3 places i was at required taking out the trash, to a different city block! Thats super fun to do on the way to the airport. This is one of many reasons why people switch back from airbnb to regular hotels.
I own an Airbnb cleaning business. This was the best possible outcome for me and the worst possible outcome for guests and hosts
The fewer things a host can ask a guest to do, the more they will ask us to do and the more we will charge for a cleaning fee. That cleaning fee will continue to get pushed onto the guests which raises the cost of every booking. Or, the host will eat the increased cost we give them and their profitability will decrease
Guests pay more, hosts pay more, cleaning companies make more
Lose, lose, win
Rookie numbers, try anything through frankfurt😂
Wow @AmericanAir changed our terminal at DFW from D to C with an hour to boarding - C terminal is now a satellite and a 15-20 minute journey from terminal D. Furthermore they started boarding early so I got to the gate 4 minutes after my boarding time to a final boarding call. Unacceptable for a commuter flight.
At least 5 years too late. A lot of us long term travelers stopped using them, or cut back a lot, ages ago because of the constant annoyance of changing rules for each place.
One @Airbnb in Colombia said we could only use the washing machine once... for 2 people... for 2 weeks. And they tracked it via the wifi connection to the washing machine lol. Thats also where people tried to break-in while we were there... good times.
When you say "yes" to the adventure and end up in a foreign country village celebration that changes your life 😂
Doesnt matter if the city is all euros, i met only like 5 people from portugal when i was there - felt like a coffee shop for german tech workers, but the whole city. Sad i missed it before the boom(
I must imagine a little, but, i believe once you live a truly full life, one you can be proud for having lived, i dont think you fear death, but i also dont think you welcome it, barring extreme pain.
