How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb

Post by scld » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:05 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #108

risyachka wrote: post #104

Airbnb is not evil. Tourists that don't care or follow the rules are. Without Airbnb, they will bring the same problems just to other people in other places. Many hotels do charge unjustified amounts of money, so I am personally happy there is an option to pay reasonable money for good service. Also, it's not like hotels don't have their share of problems. Many hotels in many countries offer you pure garbage when you…

Now for the counterargument: Airbnb is evil, because it facilitates and profits from rule and lawbreaking, up to and including turning whole apartment buildings into pirate hotels, while spinning the tale that it's all about individuals occasionally renting out their primary place of residence for a couple of days. It's evil because while occasional random temporary sublets aren't a problem, they become a problem whe…

Post by danaris » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:09 PM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #135

danaris wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Motel. They're usually what you'd expect from the lowest end of hotels, and (at least around here) a great many of them are left over from the '50s through the '70s—the pre-interstate era, where driving to visit somewhere several hours away usually meant stopping in some little town overnight. I haven't personally stayed in one, because I have enough money that I'd never have to, but the impression I have is that one…

That's certainly the image that the "motel" term conjures up. TBH, I'm not sure how broadly the term is used any longer. There are certainly more modern hotels/motels, many of them big chains, that are designed around people driving to them so you can usually park near your room. The quality varies from pretty tired and not so clean, as you say, to--if not upscale exactly--to comfortable, modern, and clean.

Post by acollins1331 » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:10 PM UTC

ilikehurdles wrote: post #132

acollins1331 wrote: post #54

Someone on an Airbnb put me up in their place for next to nothing when I was fleeing a hurricane. Hotels were booked and upcharging people huge amounts. There are pros and cons to the system, anyone advocating banning it, however, is only seeing their own side.

I'm not at all for banning it. But stories like these, from a consumer standpoint, make me want to increasingly avoid Airbnb. Hosts need to be at minimum banned from the platform for having cameras in housing they're offering to guests. And "disclosing" them is not enough.

Post by DanBC » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:14 PM UTC

rand84545 wrote: post #14

JacKTrocinskI wrote: post #6

Or just go to a hotel! I have a condo in a building where most of the units are listed on Airbnb or Booking.com, quality of life for residents like me has been drastically reduced by noisy tourists that come for a weekend trip and have no regard for keeping it quiet or keeping the shared spaces clean. I hope more cities begin to ban Airbnb. Tourists belong in hotels not in buildings where families try to live their d…

There are two possibilties here: - The noise level is within the reasonable legal limit: Tourists are exercising their rights to use the condo, in the same way that the owner (main renter) could have done. Whether it's the owner making the noise or the tourists is immaterial. - The noise levels are above the legal limits, inform them (courtesy) and then call the cops. whether it's the owner, or the tourists it's the…

Post by ineedasername » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:17 PM UTC

nizmow wrote: post #52

apexalpha wrote: post #24

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In Amsterdam you can only AirBnB your house for 30 days a year. So normal residents can rent out their house when they go on holiday, but you can't buy up living space for only renting it out on AirBnB.

Sadly this rule seems to be frequently broken.