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Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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I’ve used them four times and only had one good AirBNB experience. Hotels are so competitive in price in the markets I’ve visited that I never bother anymore.

Same. Am kind of tired of Airbnb now.

Another example why, often the facilities which are advertised making an apartment seem on par with a hotel, often end up being some poorly maintained "home" version.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

#22

I’ve used them four times and only had one good AirBNB experience. Hotels are so competitive in price in the markets I’ve visited that I never bother anymore.

My family and I use AirBnB almost every time we travel, especially when we go internationally. It's the only way to make sure we get a full kitchen, a necessity with the kids.

We always use Superhosts, and have never had an issue.

The only odd thing we had once was a host telling us that if anyone asks we are his "friends from America".

I think the key is sticking to superhosts. Also read all the reviews for the juicy nuggets. Sometimes there are some big red (or green) flags in the reviews.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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I’ve used them four times and only had one good AirBNB experience. Hotels are so competitive in price in the markets I’ve visited that I never bother anymore.

My girlfriend and I used to think the same until we started staying at "shared" airbnbs, i.e. where you're staying at actual bed and breakfasts or someone's house as opposed to just a random apartment held by a Chinese superconglomerate filled with 1ply toilet paper. Now we get to have really cool experiences - staying on a couple farms and watching our hosts go to work milking cows or feeding horses, staying in a re…

This is airbnb's special thing. I wish I could filter for only these experiences.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

#24

I’ve used them four times and only had one good AirBNB experience. Hotels are so competitive in price in the markets I’ve visited that I never bother anymore.

Agreed, my experiences have also been very mediocre. the peace of mind of using hotels is becoming more and more evident.

If you read the reviews and stay with a good host, you are getting a level of service far beyond most hotels.

Not sure what your experience was like, but I’d be surprised if the host has good reviews.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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I’ve used them four times and only had one good AirBNB experience. Hotels are so competitive in price in the markets I’ve visited that I never bother anymore.

My experiences have all been very good so far. Maybe because I am a cheap traveller and decent hotels are outside my price range.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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post #22

I’ve used them four times and only had one good AirBNB experience. Hotels are so competitive in price in the markets I’ve visited that I never bother anymore.

My family and I use AirBnB almost every time we travel, especially when we go internationally. It's the only way to make sure we get a full kitchen, a necessity with the kids. We always use Superhosts, and have never had an issue. The only odd thing we had once was a host telling us that if anyone asks we are his "friends from America". I think the key is sticking to superhosts. Also read all the reviews for the juic…

Lol that's hilarious. I wouldn't rock the boat and if the authorities pursed further I'd just say we were under duress.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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I have used Airbnb probably a little over more than ten times. And I've been very pleased. From renting a room in an apartment with other airbnb renters to renting a room in a hosts house, to renting an apartment to renting a whole house with friends, it's always been a good experience.

The times we rented houses as a group were the best and most memorable.

My experience may be a bit atypical in that I don't care for the services a hotel provides, but I greatly value having a bit more space than a typical hotel room.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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I’ve used them four times and only had one good AirBNB experience. Hotels are so competitive in price in the markets I’ve visited that I never bother anymore.

My experience is the opposite. I've used Airbnb dozens of times by now (am typing this from one, in fact), have rarely had a bad experience, and always find it cheaper than hotels, especially nice hotels. The only consistent negative, in my experience, is that there's so much variation that I end up spending way too much time comparing listings before picking one. I've gotten good at it but there's a paralysis issue and I don't really want to spend a whole evening on something like that. I think I have less anxiety around picking a hotel because hotels are more predictable. But I'd hate to go back to before Airbnb.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My family and I use AirBnB almost every time we travel, especially when we go internationally. It's the only way to make sure we get a full kitchen, a necessity with the kids. We always use Superhosts, and have never had an issue. The only odd thing we had once was a host telling us that if anyone asks we are his "friends from America". I think the key is sticking to superhosts. Also read all the reviews for the juic…

Lol that's hilarious. I wouldn't rock the boat and if the authorities pursed further I'd just say we were under duress.

I mean I'm pretty sure the only "authorities" the owner was worried about were the neighbors telling the HOA. :)

But yea, it was funny. Luckily it never came up. We were only there for a few hours to sleep before moving on.

Re: Airbnb’s loss nearly doubles in fourth quarter, before virus

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I have started using hotels more lately after almost exclusively booking with airbnb for several years. 1 thing that I really appreciate about Airbnb still is that it allows you to stay in areas that usually don't have a lot of hotels, like Manhattan Beach CA or some other mostly residential area that also makes sense for tourist to stay. I would hate for them to fail and lose those options on a large scale
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