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.”
Strike? Against whom, yourself? You’re the boss.
This must be murica, hereabouts no guest will do any cleaning.They’re technically independent contractors with some of their own capital. What makes them different than an Uber driver or a truck owner-operator is the amount of capital required to do their job is a lot higher and they generally don’t need to do as much labor.
What’s the problem? Hosts can still charge cleaning fees but they can’t force guests to do chores.
Yeah, but they were doing both.
Now they can’t have a cake and eat it too.
Exactly. If the hosts were able to both make guests clean up after themselves and charge a cleaning fee then the cleaning fee was just a money grab.
“Strike” would imply you work lmao
“striking” would imply they were performing any work in the first place lmao
What the fuck do hotels do?!?! Fuck landlords of all types. Entitled twats. Fuck right off. Glad I never use these. Just do a fucking hotel. An actual business. Not these craigslist-ass half-assed supplementing someone else’s overpriced mortgage and bad financial decisions.
Hotels, motels, boarding houses, albergues, inns, resorts, serviced apartments, and actual freaking B&B…
All of those are good for the economy to varying degrees; the smaller the business and the less corporate they are. Airbnb is just corporate leeching without any benefits.
I remember renting vacation houses and cabins a few times before AirBnB got big from smaller companies. That was way better because it worked more like a hotel where they actually had cleaning staff and other staff. It was much nicer stopping by an office, checking in with an actual human who is professional and courteous and getting a key, as opposed to dealing with shitty tech bros and slum lords both trying to get maximum profit while doing the bare minimum.
I’m not going to do anything at an Airbnb that I wouldn’t do at an actual bend and breakfast or normal hotel room.
These owners are making money off of me. I’m not doing their damn chores for them. “Protecting your investments“ does not include taking out the fucking trash and stripping the bed.
Bend and breakfast? With blackjack and hookers? Take my money!
oops…. 😅
As hosts, we have a responsibility to protect our investments
Yes, you get it! It’s not my job to take care of your house dumbasses!!
Omg, Airbnb better fix this quick if all their hosts are furious at them. Or maybe the title of this article is highly, highly exaggerated.
A different self-described host declared that going forward, the kitchens in their rentals will be “stripped down to only bare essentials.”
You think your Airbnb kitchen is currently well equipped?! 😂
I actually travel with a mini sharpener to make Airbnb knives usable.
Fuck these parasites, I’ll continue to not use Airbnb.
They tried to run hotels without running hotels and are surprised maintenance and cleanup is on them, not guests? Wow, I am shocked
Exactly. Finally some sane choices by Airbnb.
But I wonder what’s the real reason, because no company is so nice towards final customers. Maybe Airbnb saw a decrease on booking on their platform because people are rightly fed up with that bullshit and they just prefer hotels.
It’s because bookings are down. Even Marriott offers full house rentals, that operate the exact same as their hotels, minus the free breakfast (And sometimes light dinner that some hotels offer).
I wish to hope for that, but my mind says there must be some shit they are trying to cover up
Adults do their own dishes.
This means nothing to me seeing I’ve only stayed in an Airbnb twice in my life and thought a hotel was way better.
Hotels are fine when you are alone or a couple. When you have (young) kids an appartement or house is much better, where the kids get a room. Hotels have family rooms, but its usually an extra bed in the same small hotel room. Where you basically have to be silent when the kids go to bed and have zero time as a couple.
This is why suites are available at hotels. I typically just get Extended Stay suites for this very reason. They come with a kitchen, and service for 4. Housekeeping stops in daily, empties trash, takes dirty dishes away and replaces them with cleaning servingware, runs a vacuum, replaces towels if needed, etc etc.
I don’t know if this is regional, since I grew up in a semi turisty country. But here hotels with complete suites have always been a thing. Family suites have full or partial kitchens and multiple rooms, a main room with a queen bed and one or several extra rooms with singles or bunkbeds, but it is still just a hotel or inn. And it is not a luxury option, it is just a possible option. Some vacation spots offer suites that can accommodate anything up to dozens of people in a single party.
Maybe it’s because families used to be larger here or something. But it strikes me as weird this is not an option anywhere else that airbnb was viable.
Hotel suites are totally a thing here, and it is also not any more expensive usually than a AirBNB. It’s just not a full blown house by yourself. A lot of them have free parking too.
I’ll say heh staying in a love hotel in Korea was probably the most fun hotel. There’s food, snacks, beer, and … well a toy vending machine. Yes the TV had, idk a option to call for pink or blue–I didn’t play around with that. There was all the regular stuff you’d expect. But the best part was there was two racing sims, two flight sims, other arcade stuff, a VR thing. And it was cheap.
Totally okay if I do a swiping if I feel like it. Not okay if I’m charged
