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0 pointsaliqot3y ago0 comments

You can give me an 80% product, and I won't be impressed. You can give me that same 80% product, but consistently, and I'll be your best customer. AirBNB can be great, but wow they can be very bad, and at the end of the day I'm too old for that type of shit.

Holiday Inn Express might have beds fit for a Baggins, but everything down to the fold of the sheets and the pen/notepad is the same every time, and I cansure appreciate that.

Last AirBNB I was at told me to just not smoke all the 'courtesy items' on the shelf left by previous tenants.

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therealdrag03y ago

Were your airbnbs at the same price point as a hotel? There can be a big difference between a 60$ and 120$ Airbnb.

aliqotOP3y ago

I'd estimate the AirBnB post-fees was roughly 40% higher than HIE post-checkout. I chose to stay there because it was a great location, and like the idea of paying a person rather than a corp. For the record, this was a metro area, there was ample access and selection for corporate alternatives, if anything was not to my liking I'm sure I could have gone somewhere else easily.

Nice people, but just not what everyone might have in mind as far as accommodations go. Or maybe it is, who knows.

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