On the other hand, I'd pay extra to not give those cunts and their israeli buddies a cent. But it's almost impossible now. I call the hotel and they say "make a booking through booking.com (or one of its thousands of sites)"

Before I would hang up and look for another one, but I realise now that the cancer has taken total control.

Airbnb, Amazon, this shit.... Only someone insane would refuse to bend to our benevolent overlords, and I am still insane, putting up a fight I already lost.

I'd love to try if weren't for the fact that you have Trump harassing foreigners.

I usually opt for a Staybridge Inn or Homewood Suites. All rooms have kitchenettes regardless of size with a full size fridge, oven, stove, etc. They have studios at regular hotel prices and 1, 2 and 3 bedroom suites for not much more. Complimentary breakfast and dinner as well as two free drinks per night (at least at Staybridge). Onsite laundry, gym, and usually a pool as well. These places were Lifesavers when I used to travel for work.

And if it does exist, sometimes it's not legal. 🤡

I once had the guy tell me to enter and exit the building discreetly because the other tenants weren't supposed to know he was subleasing the apartment. I think they knew.

I will do an AirBNnB when traveling with the wife and kids and another family, so all the kids can interact with each other early in the morning and us adults can all hang out later at night. We have had really good places, but we also do research on the place. I also skip anyplace that has no picture of the front of the place so I can find it on Google Street view and I skip any where with all the BS like in the picture. Otherwise, hotels all the way are better.

15 years ago it was much cheaper than a hotel. Depending on the type of reservation, you may also get a kitchen and basically a house.

But things have changed and now they're not the cheapest route anymore. Some people get horror stories as you can imagine because... People do shitty things sometimes as is human law of statistics.

Rent a house instead of a hotel room. We've used that and other services like VRBO to rent cabins in the mountains. There's nothing really "special" about it and it's not really different from those other services like VRBO that came before. I think originally the difference was letting people rent a spare room, but I've personally never met anyone who has used that functionality (leasing or renting side).

It used to be the cheaper option compared to hotels. Because it used to be people renting out a spare room.

I have a fondness for AirBnB. It's gotten way bad in the past decade, since it's being gamed.

Back then, there wasn't much of a review system for shitty places. Today, Google Maps, Yelp, forums, social media - they can warn you about shitty places. And from my experience back then, a lot of hotels were scams.

Need a place to crash? You can either get a scary motel for like $40 that might have bed bugs, or a hotel for $300. I remember my first time in 2000 booking a hotel over the phone, having them save me a room, only to get there and these fuckers tried to upcharge me. I walked and they said, "Good luck finding a room in the middle of the night!" My mom eats specific foods because of her health issues, and Airbnbs often have shared kitchens. Hotels only recently started adding kitchenettes. And some hotels had locked devices. TV was extra. Fridge was extra. Touch snacks, fucking extra. You expected to pay $250 and here's a bill for $600. Don't want to pay? Well we'll call the cops.

Airbnb and Uber gave people options, and you can give bad reviews to these bad actors. Having all this competition, hotels and taxis improved dramatically.

Of course, now Airbnb hosts (not Airbnb the company) took a lot of the shitty behavior that hotels used to do. Not to mention a lot of the Airbnbs are now owned by real estate companies who are trying to squeeze every penny.

So yeah, hotels have come back around to being a better service. And now if you get fucked over by the Marriot or something, take photos, leave a bad review, and they bend over backwards to apologize.

Location and large parties. You can usually find a short term rental in places where there aren't any hotels (like near national parks, remote beaches, specific parts of certain cities).

It's often cheaper to split a short term house rental between a large party than it is to get everyone rooms in a hotel. I've spent $700 a night at an AirBnB before because it was for a house with enough bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens for 14 people (with beach access). It was like renting an entire small hotel for a weekend.

This seems consumer driven as the fees were not presented in a very transparent manner.

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This move towards transparent pricing is a direct result of this review and social media backlash over excessive clean fees and chores.

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