‘Make sure the house is spotless by 5 pm’: Guests cancel their $2000/night Airbnb reservation after the hosts demand they clean up after the previous guest

Home-sharing apps have gotten out of control. People saw the opportunity to get rich quickly with a ramshackle house in a decent area, and realized that they could flip an insane profit off the backs of their guests. Naturally, riding the coattails of the hard work of the guests staying in their house. Because when …
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Single friend refuses his Europe vacation buddies’ demands he sleep on a couch while couples get private rooms, the couples instantly back off when he suggests upgraded accommodations: ‘I don’t like sharing bedrooms, we are not children’

If you ever want to watch your adult friends regress to the politics of middle school gym class, just suggest a shared vacation rental and wait for the bedroom negotiations to begin. The couples in this friend group claim territorial rights faster than you can say «queen-sized bed.» And single traveling members of the group …
Seguir leyendo Single friend refuses his Europe vacation buddies’ demands he sleep on a couch while couples get private rooms, the couples instantly back off when he suggests upgraded accommodations: ‘I don’t like sharing bedrooms, we are not children’

‘Naturally, I claimed the master’: Friend pays 16% of the accommodation costs for a vacation with 5 others, then unilaterally claims the only master bedroom in the house because they “called it,» friend drama ensues

Friend vacations can make or break a friendship. Traveling with someone really brings out their little idiosyncrasies that we can often overlook on a day-to-day basis. Maybe your bestie doesn’t clean their dishes, or they sleep until noon every day, or they like to play white noise on 100% volume when they sleep—not every buddy …
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Cash-grabbing Dublin host ends up indebted €235 to their customers after getting caught trying to force them to cancel their €115/night accommodation for St. Patrick’s weekend: ‘And I got a free upgrade’

We live in a society that’s obsessed with a good grift.  In line with the cash-grabbing opportunists and your average snake oil salesman, grifters come in many forms, but when it comes to travel, you can always count on your home-share host to be the capitalistic version of themselves. Like the worst landlord of all …
Seguir leyendo Cash-grabbing Dublin host ends up indebted €235 to their customers after getting caught trying to force them to cancel their €115/night accommodation for St. Patrick’s weekend: ‘And I got a free upgrade’