Originally Posted by
ihispanic
While you cannot search by an "all in" price, the total cost for each property is included in the search results. (At least it is for me when using the desktop version of the web site.)
Cleaning fees definitely hurt the economics of one-night stays. Personally, I don't see $35 being excessive. A professional cleaning service needs to factor in labor, supply, and transportation costs. Even if the host does the cleaning themselves, why would they underpay themselves to do an undesirable task? Few people like to clean up after others.
Well, while I was never a frequent user, looks like they pretty much lost me.
It was convenient to use a cheap place to sleep after a positioning flight and fly out in the morning. So only sheets would need to be washed in my case.
So now I will have to expand my search if all I need is a place to sleep. So while I have not written off Air BNB entirely, it is getting pretty close.
Not that there is anything cheap related to travel these days with gas prices going up and supply chains struggling
