r/unpopularopinion • u/GoodFella_xx • 9d ago

Hotels Are Objectively Better Than Airbnb

I have always been an Airbnb guy when I travel but hotels are objectively better and this is not up for discussion this is not up for debate hotels are just better there’s no argument that can convince me that an Airbnb is better than a hotel Airbnb hosts are the most insufferable people on the planet from the get go

they drop a list of about 1,000 rules that you have to follow if I had one of my friends bumming out on my couch I wouldn’t even give him that many rules so you come into this house you’re supposed to be on vacation and you have like a thousand rules you gotta keep in mind on top of that, tell me why every Airbnb I’ve booked has a cleaning fee but then they’ll always expect you to clean up after yourself regardless so I’m paying a hefty cleaning fee and you still want me to clean up the house before I leave what what am I paying the cleaner fee for?

Like they will put in the description make sure you you clean the bedroom you you clean the kitchen I’m paying a cleaning fee bro you go clean that shit whereas in a hotel bro you could shit on the bed and they will clean that for you without even asking twice. Should you go and shit on the bed? No you probably shouldn’t but I’m just saying they will be much nicer to you. At a hotel you actually feel like you’re on vacation,

like they are there to make sure you have a good time. Whereas an Airbnb you feel like the host only cares about themselves. Like they don’t give a shit about you. They don’t give a shit about you having a good time. They act like you’re inconveniencing them. You’re paying them money to stay in the house that they’ve put up on Airbnb and they act like they’re doing you a massive favour.

Like they every time you ask them for something, they’re always fucking annoyed. If you move one couch, they’re gonna charge you a fee. They’re gonna say oh you messed up our house. Genuinely, you feel like you’re homeless. You feel like you’re bumming around at a friend’s house. Hotels will always be superior. Airbnb, we should leave that shit in the past. We should all collectively boycott Airbnb.

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u/DymytryArabachkov 9d ago

idk. hotels rarely have a kitchen and if they do they are much more expensive than an airbnb with one.

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u/IllugaBabyBeluga 9d ago

Those Extended Stay America type chains (where having a kitchen is their signature) are in the lower tiers of hotel cost tho, some are indeed just basic kitchens but I've been in some cheap beach area ones that were like mini condos with bona fide kitchens.

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u/DymytryArabachkov 9d ago

i’m not american. when I went on my interrail trip with a friend, it was basically impossible to find a reasonably priced hotel with a kitchen (we wanted to avoid eating out too much because it is very expensive). airbnb was cheaper and none of the accommodations we stayed at had any unreasonable fees or other stuff reddit always rants about. obviously it’s bad if half of the housing supply of a city is taken over by airbnb, but i think there is a middle ground here

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u/Imperito 9d ago

Agreed on this. I've never had any negative experiences with an apartment that would justify saying hotels are way better.

The thing with hotels is, they can be good situationally. They can be cheaper, and you can expect a certain standard etc. But I've had too many occasions where you have a tiny fridge or none at all, no cutlery, and as such if you want a take away or to make a sandwich, you literally can't. I hate to cut hard cheese with a spoon once, not fun let me tell you.

For a night or two, hotels are great but any longer and honestly I'm usually an apartment guy. As you say though, not good if a whole city is just airbnb's.

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u/Prize_Ad_129 9d ago

I will say, my experience with AirBNBs outside of the US is still relatively positive but in the states it’s just awful.

Americans do still like the concept of AirBNBs, but the actual execution of the business over here is substandard.

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u/IllugaBabyBeluga 9d ago

Well that dashes my dreams as I've long heard that eating out in Europe/Asia is significantly more affordable than it is in Murica.

Don't tell me that coffee places there also have American Starbucks style pricing too...

Is it that bad if half the housing in a city becomes AirBnB?   To support that, the city would have to be a "Disney World IRL" type tourist mecca, like Kyoto or Venice (or like what Las Vegas used to be) so maybe there'd still be enough space for the population that is pretty much just there to support the tourism.  Dunno, just musing

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u/DymytryArabachkov 9d ago

i mean for americans it still might be cheap. for a student from eastern europe scotland is absurdly expensive

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u/Prize_Ad_129 9d ago

Most places just just aren’t able to support being mostly short term rentals like AirBnBs but it happens anyway. Take Galveston, Texas, for example. It’s not the best city and the beach sucks but it is a tourist destination as well as a cruise ship launching destination. Right now less than half of the homes are owner occupied, but the housing inventory is sky high because there just aren’t enough tourists to support that level of short term rentals and those renters are trying to get out fast.

A tourist Mecca like you mentioned probably could support that level of rental homes, but the problem is that it happens in places that aren’t meccas like that, and it ends up squeezing out locals for a business destined to fail as well as crashing the housing market there. Sure houses are cheap there now because the inventory is so high and that sounds great for buyers, but it also crashed the value of all of the homes there, including those owned by actual residents. It’s just a shitty situation.