I’m going to Switzerland this spring, and the AirBnB “private rooms” cost the same or more than a decently rated 3-star hotel. I’d rather stay in the hotel, with breakfast, daily cleaning (if one chooses) and a front desk.
Coming back to a hotel room with the bed perfectly made is amazing
Yes, daily housekeeping is an important difference in most airbnbs compared to hotels. For stays longer than a week, I mandate weekly cleaning (that includes laundering all whites like on day one, not just arranging it to look nice) charged to the guests. Guests preferring airbnbs presumably don’t see a big value in someone else making their bed and bath look nice everyday.
The business might've made a little more sense in 2015 because that's when it was like couch surfing app. Right? Pay $40 to sleep on the someone's basement couch in a city where the cheapest hotels are over $150. Hosts weren't over-extending themselves.
Fast-forward to present day. Hosts are now realizing that it takes a lot of money and effort to maintain a modern AirBnB. More than they originally expected. They got burned out from cleaning their casitas. Or driving out to the middle of nowhere to re-setup their glamping thing for the next guest. So now they're asking guests to mow the lawn (Yes, seriously).
Why don't you do a study on food trucks. Food priced same as restaurants and you have to eat outside.
How do you determine "priced the same as restaurants"? Certainly a dine-in-waited-on place serving the equivalent dish would price it higher.
Here's another one for ya. The other week, it was a rainy day and I wanted to get lunch somewhere with a buddy. I searched online and found a highly rated place on a corner. The info online said they have Dine-In. I wasn't expecting to be waited on, necessarily. When we entered, it looked like the type of place where you order upfront, sit anywhere and bus your own table. Like a deli layout where there is no separate dining room, just one small room with some tables, a counter and cooking area directly behind the counter (no separate kitchen). After we ordered and sat down, the lady angrily told us it's take-out only. We stood waiting for the food, then ate out of paper bags under a bus stop covering in front of the place to avoid the rain. lol.
I don't care how good the food is. If you won't let customers merely sit down on the tables in your room to eat, you're a jack***. You're trying to save .. what? .. 5 minutes you'd spend at the end of the day wiping the tables and taking out the trash?
I could go down the list of horrible service I've encountered lately. I took my car in to ask if they could take a look at it because both my Check Engine light and, more recently, my Maintenance Required light, came on, and I notice a weird humming sound when driving at low speeds. I would be okay if they checked and it was nothing or something small and they wanted to over-charge me for the diagnostic work. But they didn't even want to do that. They're just like "eh probably nothing" and sent me packing. lol. It's like businesses in America don't even want customers nowadays. You see this same mentality from small businesses in former Soviet Union countries.
Why don't you do a study on food trucks. Food priced same as restaurants and you have to eat outside.
How do you determine "priced the same as restaurants"? Certainly a dine-in-waited-on place serving the equivalent dish would price it higher.
Here's another one for ya. The other week, it was a rainy day and I wanted to get lunch somewhere with a buddy. I searched online and found a highly rated place on a corner. The info online said they have Dine-In. I wasn't expecting to be waited on, necessarily. When we entered, it looked like the type of place where you order upfront, sit anywhere and bus your own table. Like a deli layout where there is no separate dining room, just one small room with some tables, a counter and cooking area directly behind the counter (no separate kitchen). After we ordered and sat down, the lady angrily told us it's take-out only. We stood waiting for the food, then ate out of paper bags under a bus stop covering in front of the place to avoid the rain. lol.
I don't care how good the food is. If you won't let customers merely sit down on the tables in your room to eat, you're a jack***. You're trying to save .. what? .. 5 minutes you'd spend at the end of the day wiping the tables and taking out the trash?
I could go down the list of horrible service I've encountered lately. I took my car in to ask if they could take a look at it because both my Check Engine light and, more recently, my Maintenance Required light, came on, and I notice a weird humming sound when driving at low speeds. I would be okay if they checked and it was nothing or something small and they wanted to over-charge me for the diagnostic work. But they didn't even want to do that. They're just like "eh probably nothing" and sent me packing. lol. It's like businesses in America don't even want customers nowadays. You see this same mentality from small businesses in former Soviet Union countries.
Yelp is a good way to ding them and also a good way to check out if someplaces are legit or good in general.
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