The major thing that keeps me from trying Airbnb is the fact that you have to clean up after yourself. I go on vacation to relax, not clean.

Also bedbugs.

In general, AirBnB is where we get places where we want to sleep 10 or 12 in one place.

Not for this one but when you say anyone... families get a better deal with Airbnb than hotels generally.

And you don't have to put the sheets in the wash, run the dishwasher, and take the trash out.

Seriously. This year for a similar amount per night, while I didn't get a whole house to myself,

Just a two bed room, bathroom, desk, mini fridge, microwave, and coffee maker to myself.

I got an actually good free breakfast every day, a pool, a gym, free room cleaning, free Internet, and there was like a mini food store next to the front-desk if I needed food in the middle of the night.

Sure there are crap hotels, but if you read reviews it's not too hard to find decent ones. And there's usually no surprise extra fees.

Pretty much the only issue I ran into was at one hotel, the claimed free breakfast was watered down coffee, a waffle maker, cereal, and frozen solid orange juice. Had to go out for breakfast every morning which was annoying.

Yeah, but at a hotel, do you have to wash the dishes, change the bedsheet, take out your trash, mow the lawn, retile the roof and breastfeed the house baby while paying the same amount of more like in an Airbnb?

Thought so.

I know it is supposed to say "Service Fee" but after reading your comment my brain is unable to read anything other than Service Egg now ....

Yep, and you don't even get a measly half-dozen, just the one and it's 🐔-sized.

I don't get it. Are you saying these fees are from Airbnb, but made to look like the host? (Apart from the fact this is an obvious bug)

but if late and early cancel each other out, wouldn't the result be 2*booking?

I started using the Australian site (it can still be used for searching elsewhere), because they're required by law to list the final price as the listing price

You can sort by price and all the bullshit fees are built into it

In order, fine, that's not free, and we both know I'm not going to use it.

They charged an amenity fee for "free wifi"?