poorbnb travel threaddoes anyone else travel domestically (us) and stay in under 150 a night airbnbs?
>>2871912Airbnb in the USA is kinda dumb unless you're booking a glorified house-turned-hostel or long term (more than 1 week) place.
>>2871912There is no point to Airbnb in the US unless you can fill up a house and intend to cook past the break even point.
>>2872197Even then you can just get an extended stay hotel or style like it for dirt cheap in most cities. No bullshit cleaning fee's either
>>2872189Its not dumb if you want to avoid hotels and have your own place and a kitchen and no check in hassle AND most of the time get to do early check in late check out if you ask and they aren't super neurotic. >>2872197Hotels have people stacked together and can be more noisy and usually lack kitchens. Also they are right by the road often. Airbnb I can find something in the right location.>>2872202My current stay has no cleaning fee.
>>2872228Most hotels will do that, extended stays as mentioned have their own kitches.>My current stay has no cleaning fee.Cool, because it's baked into the price. Kinda odd unless it's one of those "shared" hoses, most all have some nominal cleaning fee
>>2872228>Hotels have people stacked together and can be more noisy...wat? Are you staying in the Motel6/RedRoofInn specials exclusively by the Love's truck stop?>Also they are right by the road often. Yeah because most people are traveling and want access to it>Airbnb I can find something in the right location.wtf does this even mean?
>>2872237motels/hotels mean there's tons of other people all checking out at the same time so in the morning there's hallway noise and adjacent room noiseairbnbs vary widely from standalone units with separation to being on top of, below, or next to someone else but generally you are around less people and you can select your location away from main roads to avoid road noise that would otherwise wake you up
>>2871912I'm currently staying in an Airbnb for ~$30 per night. It's perfect for me
>>2872250>motels/hotels mean there's tons of other people all checking out at the same time so in the morning there's hallway noise and adjacent room noiseAnon I traveled years for work and personal, where the hell are you staying in that this is a problem? For 110-125/night you can usually get some mid-tier hotel easily, extended stays are almost always fucking quiet because the about of DV victims and jury's they get rented out to host. Yes I can see this at motel6's by the truck stop, the boomercore super8 with a casino attached, but that's it.>motels/hotels mean there's tons of other people all checking out at the same time so in the morning there's hallway noise and adjacent room noiseI have never had to wait more than 10 minutes and that's because some chinese family couldn't understand how to ask for a shuttle to the airport. Most hotels have a just simple drop the key in and walk out post covid anyways. Sure maybe if your only choice at hotels is right next to a convention center hosting a convention, yeah it will suck same with an aiport hotel at 10:59 when checkout is 11am.
>>2872255all over the east coasthotels mean everyone is up in the morning going down the hallways, talking, carrying luggage, even with an airbnb that's a house share you are sharing it usually with 2-3 other people, not 50+ like in a hotelhotels do not have kitchens, they often have shitty hvac systems (individual units that make lots of noise)>just stay in extended stay!i literally never see those where I go and I'm sure that costs extra plus I'm usually staying 1-2 nights per place
>>2872336>hotels do not have kitchens, they often have shitty hvac systems (individual units that make lots of noise)Anon plenty of hotels have kitchens, I grew up on the east coast. I'm not saying you're not allowed to use airbnb, but at least understand how to use hotel booking site filters>hotels mean everyone is up in the morning going down the hallways, talking, carrying luggage, even with an airbnb that's a house share you are sharing it usually with 2-3 other people, not 50+ like in a hotelYou sound incredibly autistic, do you also eat at home because going to restraunts have people talking?
>>2872341the vast majority of standard hotel rooms do not have kitchens, especially in the sorts of rural areas I visit>do you also eat at home because going to restraunts have people talking?yesI usually order food online via toast for pickup and bring it back to my airbnb to eat
>>2872343>the sorts of rural areas I visit>usually order food online via toast for pickupSo you have no sense of getting value for money and pay inflated American Airbnb prices and inconvenience to stay in rural dumps alongside pissing your money away on delivery?
>>2872345im staying in a cute cabin that has a cat and a dog who greet me when I come back from the day's explorings. I find hotels generally are actually slightly more expensive once you factor in looking for ones with a kitchen, not a double bed, etc. and you get less value for moneyI think this was 140 ish a night. Very quiet except for the damn ducks sometimes. >deliveryum no I go pick it up
>>2872343>especially in the sorts of rural areas I visitAnon, extended stays are all over the more rural places, aparthotel style places sprouted up all over after covid and haven't gone anywhere.Either way you sound insanely autistic to the point it's such a niche thing it really doesn't matter if anyone gives additional insight you'll brush it off as incorrect despite hotels.com and other sites having a Kitchen option filter
>>2872348you seem so upset that I am using this it baffles meI wanted to talk to other people who do it this way but apparently this board is just hotel loyalists who cannot into reason or logic and just want to get upset and wring their hands at youim not sure you fully comprehend how rural the areas I often go to are
>>2872351>you seem so upset that I am using this it baffles meNo, I get this might be your autism speaking, but if you're actually so autistic as you posted and "not merely pretending" then there really isn't much to discuss in the thread you made as you're a <2% of all people who travel. This is some Adrian Monk level autism.>im not sure you fully comprehend how rural the areas I often go to areI know rural areas anon, and often airbnb's follow the amount of hotels in the area.Residence inn's, home2, Extended stays, Homewood, etc's are all over the place and that's just off the top of my head.The reason I said this is kinda pointless is because you've stated how annoying it is to possibly wait for a few minutes at check out, dare hear someone in the hallways during breakfast hours, or be around any group larger than 3 people. >hotels do not have kitchens, they often have shitty hvac systems (individual units that make lots of noise)This is confirmed "stayed in America's best Value" tier slopAgain, hotel booking sites have a kitchen option picrel just looked some random place in NY and dragged it around to WV. However, it sounds like you have such a niche series of requirements you know the exact autismo place you want.
>>2872353>not showing the prices>not showing the locationsguarantee most are 200 a night + and near a major noisy roadim going to rural mountains anon, there are no residence inns here
>>2872356Okay show the airbnb's you stay in then, I found pircrel in about 5 minutes right in the heart of the Appalachia
>>2872346>I think this was 140 ish a nightNigga, you're getting robbed blind. Like I said, zero sense of getting value for your money.
>>2872364I genuinely don't mind staying in hotel rooms as long as there's a kitchen, I specifically did that my last trip cuz there were no airbnbs available except for outrageous prices. My current airbnb is a cabin on a hill. A driveway leads to your cabin and your cabin alone. The driveway ends after the cabin so it's just you. There's a nice mini split for HVAC (gonna get down to 35F tonight), a washer dryer (how can hotels compete?), although cheap motels sometimes DO have coin operated laundry but not IN your room, and overall it's brand new and just like a small home for 1-2 people. No noise at all. Nothing. And a hot tub I won't even use. You aren't showing WHERE these listings are. >>2872367you have never traveled around the mountains here
ITT: OP rents off season ski cabins Yeah no shit it will be different from a hotel
>>2872436no honestly its more small random cabins mostly on people's property that they live next to and sometimes a basement apartment below their house or above their garagenot much to do with skiing ive never stayed in those condo masses they have, almost did one, host rejected my booking request without explanation you get much more unique properties with airbnbmy current host is a dedicated christian and there's a bible and another devotional book next to it by the bed and the wifi password is a bible versei will say its so much fucking easier to just pull up to some random house and enter a number into a keypad than deal with check in and check out and also a special fuck you to hotels that make you pay an extra refundable deposit
>>2872437very cool anon, I'd rather be close by some places to eat, talk with people and not be such a light sleeper someone sneezing in the hallway wakes me and ruins my day
>>2872441I live in a crowded very diverse city being able to go somewhere quiet is such a relief. If I were physically attractive I would talk with people more but I realize they don't want to be around me because I'm not so it is awkward. I do love socializing, don't get me wrong, it's just not possible most of the time and people have little interest and you are pressuring them into it. There was one hotel there was some dude yelling at his kids until like 2am. It's always a risk you will have some weirdos at your hotel - or people having sex loudly. Privacy is luxury. I've stayed in room share airbnbs too. It varies, some of the hosts are insane, but that's my fault and I've learned to screen more carefully (long or emotional "airbnb rules" lists on the host listing mean avoid), but I've also had some pleasant stays this one guy (lots of airbnb room share hosts are hoarders) had a GORGEOUS collection of blown glass and I really wanted to ask if I could buy his best pieces. He also let me stay until like 1pm - just said I could stay till whenever - that doesn't happen with hotels, and he basically fucked off as soon as I arrived and I think went out with friends and I never saw him. King bed, historic old home, too bad it was on sorta a main road and noisy at night. You get a lot of quirky stuff with airbnb sometimes good, sometimes bad. One time I was in this log cabin, guy comes over, says "yup I built this myself", and it was a very nice cabin. I had one nightmare host who kept her fridge and freezer locked and wouldn't let me access my bag of ice and made me hand select WHICH kitchen utensils I could use other than the designated shared utensils. But that was not in the mountains, that was in kinda a more diverse city and she was diverse and I should have avoided it based on how weird the listing was but the options were super limited. She texted me to close the door on my room when I left it open to go eat dinner or something. Super creepy lady.
>>2871912you can do this for free if you get into dogsitting.after 10 years of that i honestly prefer real hotels now. homes just have too many annoying quirks
>>2872478my toilet is running and won't stop:(
>>2872353>le Homewood SuitesThese kind of hotels are always located in the most soulless highwayside commercial strip outskirts of any town, sometimes 3+ miles from the Main Street. It's extremely rare that such a hotel is located in a walkable or bikeable city-center area with minimal traffic passing by.>>2872441You really think you can't stay in a private home rental on a noise-free residential street and also be within 5 minutes' bicycle ride of the Main Street action? If I was paying American prices to vacation in America, I wouldn't accept anything else. >>2872341I've seen the kind of kitchens they have. A hotel suite kitchen is nowhere near as well-furnished as a private home kitchen that the owner also uses. At best it's a shitty electric range with a couple beat to shit pans. No cooking oil, spices, salt & pepper, all the other stuff you get to use when staying with your airbnb host.>>2872336It's nuts that Third World countries can all have mini-splits with fully adjustable fans, but American motels still have those antiquated window units that only have two fan settings: "Loud" and "Louder".>>2872237>most people are traveling and want access to itAs if driving an extra quarter mile down a side road would be absolutely unacceptable after a 400 mile driving day. It's ridiculous, but so common all over the world. Rooms directly facing a busy road, so you can't even open the window without hearing obnoxious traffic noise. >reee autismLow-class trash doesn't mind the shittiness. Rancid-smelling rooms, the neighbor's TV blaring on one side, the creaking bed and moans from the other side, semis barreling down the highway every minute all night long, mystery meat talking loudly in the hallway at 1 AM. It suits them just fine. >>2872254In America? Cheapest room I got was around $47 per night. It was in a beautiful house in Greeley Colorado, in a neighborhood with huge old trees that smelled like a feedlot every morning.
>>2872551>No cooking oil, spices, salt & pepper, all the other stuff you get to use when staying with your airbnb host.I bring my own cooking oil, salt and other cooking stuff anyways. Some airbnbs are lazy with that and its always better to have your own oven mitts, spatula, tongs, cheese grater if you will use it, and knife. I don't mind hotel kitchens I mostly want a freezer out of it and sometimes I use the oven. >It's nuts that Third World countries can all have mini-splits with fully adjustable fans, but American motels still have those antiquated window units that only have two fan settings: "Loud" and "Louder".mini splits are not all made equallysome have minds of their own, ghosts in the machine and turn off and on at random and don't obey remote commands and most aren't backlit so using them at night is a bitch ive had ones that were really easy to use, and ones that were really frustratingcentral (heat pump) hvac is best, but even that doesn't really work in cold temps and its better to have an oil radiator or baseboard heaterI've NEVER gotten those click-on propane heaters to work they are beyond my ken. >As if driving an extra quarter mile down a side road would be absolutely unacceptable after a 400 mile driving day. It's ridiculous, but so common all over the world. Rooms directly facing a busy road, so you can't even open the window without hearing obnoxious traffic noise.some of the airbnbs involve climbing halfway up a mountain and its more like 5 miles from the main road and wouldn't be too fun at night but you generally do get quiet and a cheaper price and that's worth it to me
>>2872254What country?I stayed in an AirBnB when I went to Taiwan last September. It was nice. Much better than any of the hotels I'd ever stayed in there, and about the same price as a bottom-end hotel. It was clean, quiet, and in the city center. The only problem was that it was boxed in by a bunch of major roads so you had to walk an underground maze to get to the MRT.>>2872202>just live in a shitty Indian-run motel!Enjoy your bedbugs, saar!. If you don't like them, no refunds, saar!
>>2871912I wish I could find a halfway reasonably priced airbnb where I need to travel. I have to go clean out a storage unit in the middle of fucking nowhere and the locals apparently think their houses are made of gold or something. I thought that $80/night for a shit-tier motel was bad, but renting a house for a month on AirBNB they all want like $5000 and up. Even just renting a single room in someone's house through AirBNB is gonna cost me the same as the motel, and I'd have to deal with stupid asshole boomers.
>>2873415airbnb takes a 20% cut
Has anyone ever done a chargeback on an airbnb? I rented a place and might have to cancel. Greedy landlord has a bad (no) refund policy. I hear airbnb might perma ban you but it’s luck of the draw
>>2873865sounds like you are fuckedmight be able to talk the airbnb customer support into giving you airbnb credits but unlikelyive only ever had to change the dates (easy enough), cancel when the host did because the property had issues (they give you airbnb credits), or get a refund cuz the host was insane (they drag it out but will eventually do it)
>>2873865You can, but it's tricky. There's a limit on how far back you can dispute a charge. Airbnb will probably charge you again after the chargeback. If you ever enter a new credit card, expect them to hit you with that old charge the second you book anything new. They may ban you. And technically, they could send you to collections. I would tell the landlord that it's a medical issue and ask them for a refund first. After establishing that it's a medical issue, you can also dispute with Airbnb by claiming an "Extenuating Circumstance". They require some type of proof. You can just fake a document and send it. They aren't allowed to call your doctor to verify because it violates Hipaa laws in the US.
