So I’m a little conflicted with this review. The home was great, checkin was easy and everything was accurate to the pictures. However, this is my first domestic Airbnb since covid and I am not sure if this is the new Airbnb or if this is just this listing, but my two night stay ended up costing me $1400 upfront due to hundreds of dollars of fees and deposits, many of which isn’t listed and I wasn’t aware of until the day of my stay (I booked two days beforehand so was last minute).
I have some difficulty with paying a $200 cleaning fee when I am still expected to clean my own dishes. I paid an unlisted $500 deposit and $100 dog fee and $85 operation fee.
This might just be the new norm of Airbnb, it in the past, owners would charge you if you damaged something and cleaning fees weren’t hundreds of dollars and still required you to clean. At one point the Airbnb payment was taking a while to go through and this company requested I send them a venmo off of the platform.
Overall, I think I’m just done with Airbnb. This experience is similar to others I have been hearing about where fees are more costly than the actual price.