Looks like http://airbnbhell.com is gonna need more storage!
Airbnb expands to experiences
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#32Am I missing something, or is there no way to search the Experiences?
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#33Airbnb has tried to do "experiences" so many times I've lost count. Here's the one where they partnered with Vayable, all the way back in 2011: https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/02/airbnb-to-partner-with-vay...
This is different. I work at Airbnb - we've been working on what was announced today for quite some time, and it has been our intent to fully own and provide an Airbnb-branding-appropriate offering.
What were your motivations for this? It seems like the opposite experience of what I use Airbnb for. If people were after hand holding tourism it's unlikely they'd be using airbnb. Does this signal a shift in strategy away from what made us all start using airbnb in the first instance?
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#34This is awesome. My wife and I are planning a round the world trip to celebrate our last college tuition payment. We've talked about becoming 'Citizens of the World' and eschewing the canned tourist experiences to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around vi…
If you come to Los Angeles, you can do my laundry and buy my groceries for a real locals experience.
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#35Went on a couple of these trips in Japan recently. Would definitely recommend to others. They've found some great people.
I have a feeling their beta experience hosts will be their cream of the crop. Once the general public starts hosting experiences, and Airbnb's quality control falters, we'll see a lot of complaints about shitty or scamful experiences.
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#36> to fully own and provide an Airbnb-branding-appropriate offering.
Can you translate that into some human language? Probably not.
Here, let me try: people don't like you for legitimate reasons, and you clumsily tried to make that go away. Sorry, dude, you weren't "brand-appropriate." Can you give it another go?
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#37I just got an EULA-wall asking to agree not to treat anyone on Airbnb "with bias or judgment" based on their origins.
That's not how bias/judgment work. You can't just agree to be unbiased, though you can certainly try to be aware of your biases and to be accordingly more sensitive to situations where you may be biased.
I wonder what the impact of this is. So many people blindly click "Agree" when presented with legalese - will this be any different? Will anyone really click the button that admits they are biased? Will anyone change their conditioned behavior because they were nagged by a modal they saw one time and promptly dismissed?
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#38This is awesome. My wife and I are planning a round the world trip to celebrate our last college tuition payment. We've talked about becoming 'Citizens of the World' and eschewing the canned tourist experiences to instead live the same lifestyle as the citizens of the countries we visit: Stay in a neighborhood instead of a high-rise hotel, shop at the same grocery stores, eat the same home-cooked meals, get around vi…
I highly recommend HelpX to get a really good feel of the lifestyle in foreign countries. Rather than just staying at someone's place like Airbnb, you do light work for your host in exchange for free room and board. You get a place to live in a place where locals actually live, homecooked meals in the local style, when your host don't feel like cooking you get taken out to eat at places where locals actually eat, get shown around the local sights by your host on evenings and weekends, and you also get to experience some of the work they do. It's an incredibly easy, low-cost, and effective way to temporarily live somewhere.
I stayed with 2 families in France that way, and got to label wine bottles at a local domaine (vineyard), drink their wine at dinner, shovel horse manure at a farm, harvest honey, ran to the boulangerie for bread, went shopping at the local supermarket, got shown around a spectacular nearby castle and a monastery carved into a cliff that I'd never heard of, ate cheese and charcuterie at their favourite restaurants, they made an effort to cook traditional food like raclette and canneles for me to try.... really I can't rave about the experience enough.
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#39I'd rather prefer them to first stop skimming 50% on foreign exchange. Just today saw this screenshot in my fb feed, someone's reservation cost was converted at 100 rur/eur, whereas market rate is around 70 now. And they force payment in rubles, like if Russians don't have enough problems already.
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#40Why is this an app? Why can't I use the airbnb website so that I can sit comfortably at a desk with a real mouse and keyboard and calendar? On a PC, you can open new tabs easily to read reviews, look at maps, make itineraries, and comparison shop. This is torture on a phone, and as a result, people just don't perform as thorough a search on mobile. Airbnb knows this because they have data on how many options we consi…
It appears their site has the same functionality.