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Hotels are often cheaper in destination areas, and you get the convenience of fucking room service. In a lot of destination areas, home ownership has rapidly declined in favor of permanent AirBnB rentals. Because why charge $3000 in rent per month to a tenant, when you can charge $350 per night and have AirBnB guests for 20 nights a month?
But it also means Airbnb has landlords getting even more greedy. Cleaning fees are often used as a way to directly increase the rental cost. Requirements for guests are increasingly restrictive. And the nightly rent is often so exorbitant that you can literally get a hotel and room service for cheaper.
Yeah it's gone full-circle like the whole situation with streaming services becoming cable. Funny how the world works so similarly in different places.
it's almost as if enshittification is a cycle!
The ultimate inevitable destination of capitalism. Enshrining greed in fact does NOT boost innovation.
I have priced out Airbnb vs. hotels quite a few times over the past few years at my spouses request. I have never stayed at any of them as they have always been much more expensive for shittier accomodations. It simply doesn't make any sense to me.
This past christmas, renting 2 hotel rooms at a nice hotel was cheaper than the worst dive of an Airbnb near my in-laws.
You get to fuck room service? Where do you stay?!
At the Fuck Hotel in Fukuoka.
I've been, don't believe the hype. Horse sashimi was delicious though.
Oh, you went to that place where they have the horse walk up to the table and slice you off a hunk, very nouveau riche!
Brb, visiting Japan.
Wtf who pays that much for 1 night? That's hotel prices. AirBnBs are like $8-20 per night. That's the point.
Maybe like 10+ years ago
No, that's what I'm paying now. But it depends what country
K
Yeah, there's still plenty of places where AirBnB is competitive. When I'm in cities in France and Germany an apartment tends to cost about the same as a hotel room. Outside of cities hotels tend to cost a lot more.