11 Toughest Cities to Book an Airbnb (opens in new tab)

These charts always remind me of this graph - https://xkcd.com/1138/

As far as surprising places where AirBnB is hard to book - I'm surprised Boulder, CO isn't on the list. For as tech-heavy their city is, I recently went for a short consultancy there with a startup and found it nearly impossible to find any airbnbs anywhere. I think there were 3 with some availability in the whole city.

I just came back from Berlin, and was able to book an AirBnb during the high season of August in just a few days in advance. The price seemed reasonable for around $40 per night. I’m wondering if booking is as difficult as the author describes.

SE Asia is one of the most difficult places to book a decent AriBnB in. Most of the apartments are just guesthouses in disguise, the hosts have no concept of quality accommodation (lacking basic things such as towels or sheets, overbooking houses, not cleaning up between guests), and displaying completely the wrong location on AirBnB's map. And this is unrelated to the pricing, as you can get a better daily price for the same quality of accommodation in most highly developed countries in the world.

To my surprise, AirBnB is very eager to send refunds for bad experience, instead of concentrating on removing the bad hosts and guaranteeing a minimum level of quality. I really hope that they will work harder on this, because if a first-time user tries their service in SE Asia, chances are that he or she will never consider them again. Booking and the like are far more reliable in that region.

You would think AirBnB would get more involved in pricing (like Uber). Perhaps, though, it considers stable prices more community-friendly?

Shortest day in sydney (mid-winter) is 10 hours.. Not at all "7 hours of daylight" this article claims.

Fargo, ND