All depends on how many people you’ve got with you. If you’re traveling with 8 people, splitting an AirBnB starts to make sense. Traveling solo? Hotels all the way.
8 people? Sounds like the perfect excuse to rent the penthouse. (Disclaimer: I’ve only seen penthouse hotel suites in movies)
Yeah if we’ve got a big team together for work we use AirBNB. I’ve stayed in some nice houses, and if everyone pitches in to keep the place clean it’s no big deal. This included plenty of drinking and weed, on outdoor cameras. Only problem I had was in NH right over the state line from Mass. The old-ass neighbor bitched multiple times every day about us having a fire in the fire pit and talking. Nobody was loud or drunk. We had to get up at 5 every day so it’s not like we were up late. He complained to the owner, she looked at the cameras, and took our side. Gave us a great review. She was probably tired of his shit too.
I’ve recently rented an AirnBnB with 6 other People and at 21:26 the owner knocked and complained about noise. At that time we were playing cards and just enjoying each other’s company. The next day they wanted to kick us out because “partys” were not permitted. In no way other than drinking like 2 beers each we were having anything close to a party. I don’t know what they expected when they decided to offer a room for 8 Adults, but apparently they only welcome monks with a vow of silence.
Oh this sounds like a challenge.
Sometimes there’s free breakfast too. And less chance of hidden cameras.
Also zero expectation to tidy up. Not an excuse to be an animal, but a reasonably behaved adult won’t have to worry about sneak attack fees.
And all the cum stains you can lick
I forgot where I saw it, but someone took a blacklight to Hilton Hampton Inn and then to a airbnb in the same area of Chicago, and the Hilton was way cleaner. Think it was on tiktok. Most Hiltons I’ve stayed in are spotless. Except one time in South Bend Indiana, the DoubleTree, one of the worst hotels I’ve ever been too.
Nothing is clean in south bend Indiana.
Factual
At least in the southeast US, Hiltons are hit and miss. Holiday Inn Express is the most consistent in my expirence.
I’ve stayed in a lot of hotels all around the US (and a few abroad), ranging from 1 to 5 stars. I’ve found that the age of the hotel is the primary factor in the quality of the room.
It seems like they build them nicely, but then never seem to have (or want to spend) the money to maintain them. There are exceptions, certainly, but I’ve seen maintenance issues even in high end hotels.
Yeah, I’ve done the black light check at hotels before. I was pleasantly surprised.
One tip though: They don’t usually change the top comforter in between guests. They’ll typically change the sheets, but the comforter is only changed on a regular (typically weekly) schedule. But they’ll be happy to change it for you if you ask.
Unless it’s a honeymoon suite. That shit all gets changed in between every guest, for obvious reasons.
Hey airbnb’s have fine cum stains. Adequate even.
As opposed to Airbnbs which ask guests to clean their own sheets and I guess use the honor system that they actually did it.
Two bad experiences with airbnb. Will never use them again. I’d prefer hotel now. Actually cheaper, closer to right things and much much less hassle.
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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 had the same thing happen to me in London. Twice.
Both booked from hotels.com. The place didn’t have the advertised room available so we got moved to another location. Both times.
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Never book through Hotels.com even for actual hotels. Just look at the price and call the hotel directly. They will always price match because Hotels.com takes a cut of bookings through their site so they always win out if you book directly at the same price instead of going through hotels.com
They used to have a decent loyalty program.
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Why is the Airbnb $225? This is the point of it to be cheaper. Also, I haven’t used an Airbnb in approximately seven years.
Airbnb used to be about renting your room for short stay, nowadays it’s renting the whole unit/house, so the price reflect that. Then there’s also cleaning fee that usually around 30%/40% of the total price, which then they demand you to clean the place before leaving. They also jack up the price after covid. It might worth it if you have a big group, but for 1 or 2 persons hotel is still the best option.
Ok yeah I’m remembering like renting out part of the house that was converted to an airbnb so that you can come and go without interacting much with the host, but they still live there in the other part of the house.
Or maybe they live there but they’re gone this week so they rented it out.
Airbnb no longer ads much value over hotels. Their pricing is frequently similar.
I’d say AirBnB’s pricing is worse since my hotel stay means I can just pack my stuff and leave. Most of the AirBnB’s I’ve stayed at have required me to cleanup after myself like I didn’t just pay a “cleaning” fee.
My favorite hotel is the “C’mon inn” in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, etc. It’s a small family-owned chain that charges about $100 per night and has rustic decor and always has a pool and a bunch of jacuzzis. Amazing service, tasty breakfast, low price, and I’m not feeding some gigantic corporation. It’s a matter of finding the smaller outfits, I tell ya.
I’d love to try if weren’t for the fact that you have Trump harassing foreigners.
You think he’s leaving the citizens alone? We’re all fucked.
Thankfully we have the option of not visiting.
I don’t know what to tell ya. This country sucks and always has. I’m just hoping this is things getting worse before they get a lot better.
I went to Rome with my wife and stayed at an Airbnb thing. The guy who rented it to us looked like a mafia boss and wanted the payment in cash.
But the apartement was actually really nice, and right in the middle of old Rome!
Before ABB was forced to add all the cleaning fees because Big Hotel was losing their ass. I loved getting a good Airbnb.
Holiday Inn Express. I feel smarter already!
I stayed at one AirBnB where the owner had replaced all the kitchen counters with untreated butcher block. The instructions basically said “don’t use the kitchen”. For bonus points, my parents got the one bedroom and I had to sleep in the kids’ room … on the bottom bunk with the actual kid’s sheets because there weren’t any other sheets in the house. I just felt sorry for the kid.
Hope they wash them at least
You can’t truely wash porous surfaces.
Part of the reason for the rise of AirBnB is that hotels suck too:
- “Your $225 per night hotel”, oh sorry, all those rooms are booked, we do still have these $250 per night rooms though…
- Oh, you didn’t want to be next to the ice machine and hear that crunch sound all night? There’s another room here but that will be $275…
- Not next to the elevators? Well, there’s this $300 room down the hall
- Yes, the room has a mini-fridge. Oh, we didn’t tell you but it’s 100% full of overpriced things, and if you touch one you bought it. No, there’s no way to put your own things in the fridge.
- Oh, you wanted to use the TV? Well, we have HotelTV and every time you turn it on it goes to the HotelTV channel, you can get all the local TV stations too. HDMI? No, sorry, we don’t have that feature.
- Of course we offer a free “continental breakfast”, it’s offered between 4:35 and 5:20 AM, and consists of reconstituted dehydrated eggs, malk, cereal, taste-free muffins, and pancakes. We’re out of pancakes.
- Internet? Of course we offer Internet. Just sign on to this captive portal and you can use Google. Send emails? You should be able to get to gmail… Play games? You mean like backgammon? I think we have a backgammon set in the back here. VPN? That sounds like hacking…
None it’s this is remotely true of the vast majority of hotels. I stay in hotels 30 to 40 nights a year and, yea, just no. Most of it’s the opposite. Oh this room is booked, here is a nicer room for the same cost. Oh we have plenty of rooms, here is a huge discount. A mini fridge, cool. Place to put your left overs. Very few have in room anymore, unless it’s like a Vegas resort. And even most of them don’t any more. And cost wise, your still high. I stay in Orange county near Laguna Beach multiple times a year. The last place I stayed was 155 a night, for a nice room 20 minutes from the beach. They upgraded me to a double room suite the last 2 nights for free because the toilet stuffed up. I stay in Montana regularly and the place there is 260 a night, but it a King suite with a hot tub in the room. So, worth it. Yea, there are times I slum it and pay 40 or 50 a night, and it isn’t great, but on average I think I pay around 125 a night in almost every state in the West. Hell last year I spent a week in Atlanta and it was 85 a night. Great place too.
I stay in hotels 30 to 40 nights a year and, yea, just no. Most of it’s the opposite.
You get that treatment because of that. Us plebs who go once or twice a year don’t get treated like that, lol. I used to fly a shit ton, there is a difference.
Bullshit. I don’t stay in the same hotels, brands, etc.
oh, okay buddy. You go on 40 different trips, but don’t duplicate any of the brands. Sure.
Rarely. I do stay in some of the same, but you would be surprised how many hotels there are. When you shop for price and features the brand doesn’t matter. Also I rarely book through the hotel, almost exclusively online so they don’t know who I am until I show up.
So you don’t collect points or your employer doesn’t? We had certain hotels because we got better deals through bulk, and the employees got to keep the points. Not adding up or you’re kind of doing it wrong.
I use hotels.com so it doesn’t matter the hotel I stay in.
All right also it’s not necessarily 40 different trips. It could be anywhere from 15 to 20 different trips. I’ll sometimes go on 10-day multi-state trips where I’m staying in different hotels every single night or I’ll stay at a campground one night or hit a hotel another night depending on what I’m looking for and what time of year it is. I may go on a single trip where I’m staying in a hotel for 3 to 4 nights or I may just be going overnight. It all varies.
Not to mention that AirBnB doesn’t give me “points” to stay nights for free. So if you travel for work especially you basically squander your money away. AirBnB only makes sense if you’re a group of people and even then my last trip with them ended up being one where I regretted just not paying for me and my friends to stay in individual hotel rooms because it would have been cheaper and more convenient for parking and amenities.
Oh God yes, I get rooms free all the time.
What kind of hotels do you frequent?
Normal ones? But as infrequently as possible.
Do you stay at the worst hotels in the world? Let me guess you stay at trump branded hotels only?
Okay I see this meme a lot, but just curious, is taxis/rideshares in the same situation or not.
I rarely ever need to use those but just curious in case I might need it someday.
A lot of taxis also work for the apps, it’s kinda like hotels that are listed on airBNB for some reason.
I’ve had too many bad experiences with taxi drivers demanding too much money or trying to drop me off too early, I almost exclusively book through apps now. I know the app takes 20-30%, why tf are you trying to charge me 2-5x what the app would for this route?
Before you take any taxi, look up what the route would cost on an app, then use that as the max you would pay.
$225 a night seems pretty stiff but it depends on where you are
I rent apartments a lot on booking.com for staff travel, it’s never any hassle.
Used Airbnb once, never again.
Family book it often if I don’t get ahead of them, apart from one time the places are always sub par and half the stuff is broken.
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.
Wasn’t aware they had ties. Fuck sake
Sorry I made your life worse, because you’re probably not going to escape them. They probably own whatever other website you’re thinking of using too.
You’re also 100% less likely to contribute to the local rent markets becoming wrecked if you stay in a hotel.
