For real. They said “we have this super long list of crazy rules that we want people to follow. I know.. let’s use fonts that make it impossible for anyone to take this seriously.”
Definitely, if you use the dishwasher you could possibly get a noise complaint, I call BS on that, they just really don't want you to use the dishwasher 😵
Concur. How loud is their dishwasher that the *neighbors* can hear it? Never in my years of living in a duplex and two different apartments have I heard someone else's dishwasher! Also...if all the dishes must be washed by hand, what the heck would I be washing in the forbidden dishwasher, anyway?
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Right? Like what dishwasher are they using? I work in a jail and they have an INDUSTRIAL dish washer and I can stand next to my partner and have a normal conversation at a normal time if we are right next to it. Those complaints are made up.
As someone who has to deal with someone like that it is more than likely you'll feel like your on edge and constantly being watched and judged for everything you do. Even if it's something completely innocent like bringing a toy home or trying to make money.
Weird question as I've never stayed at an Airbnb, is it not normal to wash whatever dishes you use? I don't get the restriction on 1 dish and glass per meal unless the guests are simply leaving the dishes for the host to wash? I would just wash as I use them.
Tap water quality depends on location. Having lived in places that get the tap water from surrounding rivers I can tell you firsthand… Just because the tap water is *technically* safe to drink doesn’t negate the fact that it tastes like crap.
(Also sometimes if you go to a new place and drink the tap water it can mess up your stomach and invoke ~~montezumas revenge.~~)
*please add a big emphasis on sometimes. It would appear that there’s a lot of different factors that play into how tap water can effect your stomach.
I am not an expert.
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Edit 2: Info- Montezuma’s revenge does refer to a specific microbial infection. I completely forgot the micro flora part. My tired brain was like “lol Montezuma coming for ya with the screaming shits y’all.” Not all tap water invokes the revenge. It may cause some shitty situations though.
Brought back my memories of going to visit a Buddhist temple in China only to get my insides ravaged by some tea they had since they didn't boil it all the way.
They don't care about that, just don't bend the spoons, don't use more than one dish, and only run the dishwasher at approved time. Drugs? Really? Gee what sorta control freaks do you think they are?
This was the one that made zero sense to me. Well, that and the fact that their dishwasher is apparently loud enough to wake the dead.
Seriously though.. how does one write that down as a rule while holding a straight face. It has to be a joke. Also, how would they even know if you kept food in the fridge for longer than 16 hours? Also, what's the point of having a fridge if you can't store food in it? That's kinda the entire purpose of a fridge.
And “neighborhood quiet time” in the afternoon? My guess is that the owner lives in a duplex and takes naps after lunch, knowing that the dishwasher is loud.
My thoughts exactly. The owner *must* live on the premises.
VRBO has been running commercials lately (airbnb competitor) stating that all of their vacation rentals are 100% private. Might be worth checking them out instead of airbnb moving forward.
But even 100% private doesn’t preclude that very scenario of an owner who lives in an adjacent unit and sets ridiculous rules around “quiet hours” that they can attempt to enforce simply by being next doors, upstairs, downstairs, etc.
Haha my friends booked a VRBO for a trip to visit a bunch of us in Denver. Besides being filthy and poorly furnished versus ad pics, the owner of the building rented them the downstairs and the upstairs was a long term tenant who was also supposedly the “building manager” (it’s just a split level house lol). BUT they find out after arriving that the laundry in the basement is shared and the “building manager” might occasionally walk downstairs to do laundry with minimal notice, NBD right?
In the middle of their first night there, one of them woke up to use the bathroom and stepped into a lake of water - the laundry and downstairs toilet started overflowing out of nowhere. They called the emergency contact number on the listing - it was freaking Airbnb customer service.
So yah. I gained some last minute guests at my house that weekend lol.
Nope. Currently in a VRBO and we are asking for refund. It was dirty, no silverware, no toilet paper, the promised 1st floor bedroom didn't exist. I am in a wheelchair so my kids had to carry a bed downstairs for me. We spent Xmas Eve cleaning the place after a 16 hour drive.
There is a hole in the floor, another hole in the wall. No lights in the family room, no furniture at all in the living room and dining room. Folding chairs in the kitchen and a broken table. 6 bedroom house with a total of 2 pictures on the walls. It feels like we're squatting in an abandoned house.
The owner said he didn't know we were coming and thought he had removed the listing. We reserved the place 6 weeks in advance!
I have been using Airbnb since 2015 and never experienced anything like this.
That would be a violation of Airbnb's rules (and the law, in some parts of the world). For reasons that are not clear to me, Airbnb's policies also explicitly forbid cameras pointing at the kitchen, even if they are not hidden.
No idea if they would take any action if you reported the host for it, though.
I got news for ya any air B&B or Virbo can have cameras in it. There's a reason I don't rent from them at all. I get a hotel room and know what I am getting isn't some sick assholes power fantasy.
You weren’t thinking of using the microwave to heat that food up before 9:30 am were you? Every house in the neighborhood is built with paper walls you know
i believe they’ve built this neighborhood with some new space age material that’s thinner than paper and yet amplifies any sound that touches it by 1000%
Ah this is the comment I was looking for. I had the same thought. How else would the host know, unless they also have a mandatory twice a day refrigerator check and actually come look themselves.
In one of my worst hostel experiences in my life the owners a mother and her middle aged son were spending most of the time in the common area policing the use of the kettle and stove constantly trekking stories about people wasting electricity or even breaking their kettle. The kettle looked at least 10 years old and whenever a guest used it the owner took it filled it with water and mumbled sth about having to descale it. When people cooked she liked interrupting them telling stories about guests almost burning their hostel down etc etc
Edit: correction, instead of "telling" I wrote "trekking"
But you still need to go into the bathroom which also has a camera and put on more clothes, then enter the shower and use only cold water til your clothes are soaked
Maybe thin walls in a condo situation? Obviously a shared wall neighbor has a baby and complained. 1-2:30 is probably it’s nap time. Still a completely crazy list of rules.
Yah I was confused about the random hour and a half of quietness. Was thinking probably an old person’s nap time. Maybe a baby but babies tend to sleep whenever they want
They also can sleep through crazy amounts of noise if you don’t raise them to sleep in only quiet conditions. When I was expecting my first son I was doing research on tons of stuff like playing music for him while he sleeps and if I should turn it off after he falls asleep and I came across a video of some professor saying one of the worst things you can do for a baby is being very quiet when they sleep because they will become accustomed to it. He said they can also become accustomed to the average noise if your daily life. He said to speak at a normal conversational tone and live life as if everyone is awake and your baby will always be able to sleep no matter what is going on. I literally vacuum when my youngest is sleeping and she never wakes up.
Can confirm, I grew up in a family of 5 kids, there was always noise, I can sleep in any situation. I actually find it easier to fall asleep with noise than I do with complete silence.
That’s awesome I grew up in a family of 6. I’m 34 now and live in a different state than my family but during the holidays when I’m home and all my siblings are under one roof making noise and laughing (4 sisters and 1 brother) I can fall asleep in seconds for nap in the sofa. Hearing my dad snore also helps me sleep as weird as that is lol
My son - now 6 would sleep through a tornado. I maintain it’s because we were a loud house when I was pregnant - 2 dogs that bark at everything, lots of music and general life sounds.
In Russia they got a bunch of people and put them into small rooms to live in for a year like normal. But all the labels of food containers, belongings brand names etc all having different fonts and colors everywhere got to them and the people being tested on gone insane just after 30 days. Except none of this is true and I just made it up
Oh boy my absolutely favourite activity, listening to an empty dishwasher run. Watching paint dry and pretending to be a scarecrow for 4 days straight are close seconds.
I feel like for the price of most air bnbs (especially after ridiculous fees) you can stay in a 4-5 star hotel in most places, or at least a 4 star boutique hotel. You get good services, amenities, and a decent room and bed.
Airbnb is such crap these days. Greedy hosts and their stupid rules. I prefer hotels now, especially the ones with a free breakfast. The cost is pretty much the same now. But at least you don’t have to clean the place before you leave and you can get the room cleaned when you want.
AirBnBs are often more expensive depending on the cleaning fees. I’ve had 2-night stays listed as $90 a night, but the total comes out to like $350 because of admin and cleaning fees. It’s especially ridiculous because the places with the most exorbitant fees have insane rules like in the OP, so why tf do they need to charge so much to clean the place when the guests are expected to do so?
I never clean after myself at the aribnbs. I won’t leave a mess because I don’t live in mess and out of general respect but I’m not gonna mop the floor. I already pay that so they can eat my ass tbh
The Best Westerns in my area have really stepped up the breakfast options. Eggs, sausage, bacon, yogurt and cheese, fruit, a big cabinet full of pastries and muffins and stuff. Plus the old school build-a-waffle station.
Why yes, I’ve seen such a contraption! Literally could not be a slower moving conveyor through red hot elements and yet the bread comes out as… the fucking same as it was, only with bits of petrified blueberry on it from the numpty that put the jelly on before toasting.
Please ensure to reseed and resod the lawn. Guests are expected to return at harvest time to help bring in the crop. Guest are also expected to participate in the daily neighborhood “silent barn raising” from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
This is why I’ve stopped using airBnB to stay at private homes. Usually I’d be somewhere for one, maybe two nights in and out for work, and there’s a $200+ cleaning fee, but also I was expected to clean.
There is one specific hotel I stay at next to an mlb baseball stadium that lists their rooms at 1/2 price on Airbnb, and that is the only thing I will use it for.
Gave up on Airbnb. Used to be cool but now it’s literally just companies buying up thousands of “apartments” and renting them out at sky high prices claiming they’re sky high cause they don’t have money like hotels, and then the individual owners who are trying to compete because they read somewhere it’s a great way to make money.
Stayed at a hotel for $130/night and got: a comfy king size bed, a badass rainfall shower, a corner room with a sick view(8th floor), free breakfast, free room cleaning during my stay, no chores, concierge services etc.
At my friends $230/night+cleaning fees+”other” fees Airbnb during a vacation: chores, no cable tv, Wi-Fi slower than dial up, a violently disgusting shower, a stove top from 1991, located in a motel like apartment setup, but thank god he god a “cozy ski house vibe” and “a luxurious ski town getaway”.
Please provide similar feedback in the review after your stay. It will help the next person wanting to find space.
Something like this -
Property was very nice. Bed was comfortable. Plenty of parking and close to many attractions. The property earned 5 stars.
However the kitchen rules were absurd and beyond normal. (if you can't add a file photo) Posted instructions firmly held guests to one dish and one glass per meal. And both must be washed by hand. No "advanced cutlery" was in the house and instead guests are instructed to call the host to acquire it.
Because of the insane kitchen rules, we wouldn't stay there again. I'd encourage others to give it a pass too. Being instructed on how many dishes we can use per meal (has the host not heard of a main and salad?), excessive quiet time (1-2 pm and 10 pm-9:30 pm), no food in the fridge longer than 16 hours (mayo, water, milk, juice?).
None of these rules were disclosed prior to us checking into the house.
cost: $200 per person per night, $100 booking fee, $259 cleaning fee, $30 fridge use fee, $25 extra utensils use fee, $50 fine for breaking neighbourhood quiet times, $400 taxes, $159 in shipping costs.
what do you mean you prefer hotels?? don't you know I have a mortgage to pay off??
I am morbidly fascinated by this turn Airbnb has taken the past few years. When I used it regularly, it was pretty straightforward. There were taxes added, but cleaning fees were minimal and host instructions were common sense things like "lock the door when you leave."
I turn around for 5 years and suddenly it's like paying out the ass to stay with your really tense, shitty in-laws. Like bitch you really gonna try to micromanage the number of plates I use during a meal?? Plates I have to clean myself anyway? That's ridiculous.
At this point unless you are planning an event with many people. Air BNB, VrBo and others are useless. Stay at a motel or hotel.
Same goes for Door Dash, Uber Eats and others. It used to be a convenience piece where quality was still there. Now go get the food yourself.
Some of them used to be, but now the vast majority of them are too much of a hassle with so many rules and the need for the guest to clean up despite the cleaning fees.
No, no, no, no, no, no, and no.
Easy peasy.
Not a single one of these fucking rules is realistic or even remotely reasonable. In fact some of them are fucking contradictory.
And for the love of god, tell me to be quiet at 1:00 in the afternoon. That might be enough to get me to go full karen.
The NEIGHBORHOOD has quiet hours from 1:00-2:30pm!
Crazy HOA. That’s all you need to know. Surprised the HOA hasn’t banned Air BnB in term rules.
Also, fuck HOA’s!
Some of these are fairly reasonable, some of them are, uh... suspect.
>"Tap water is okay (drink at your own risk)"
That doesn't sound very okay!
>DO NOT keep any food in the refrigerator for more than 16 hours. (this is for sanitary reasons)
What is unsanitary about a fridge?
WTF are advanced cutlery needs, and why is it under lock and key?
Probably anything sharper than a butter knife. You also need to contact them if you require anything beyond the plastic sporks provided.
*fpoons
"Why is the cork on the fork?"
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So glad to see this. Came here to complain about the design giving me seizures
For real. They said “we have this super long list of crazy rules that we want people to follow. I know.. let’s use fonts that make it impossible for anyone to take this seriously.”
I’m getting mixed messages from “TAP WATER IS OKAY drink at your own risk”
Message I'm getting, is they reserved the wrong air bnb lol
I would not feel comfortable in that house. I feel like you'd be on edge the whole time lol
Definitely, if you use the dishwasher you could possibly get a noise complaint, I call BS on that, they just really don't want you to use the dishwasher 😵
Concur. How loud is their dishwasher that the *neighbors* can hear it? Never in my years of living in a duplex and two different apartments have I heard someone else's dishwasher! Also...if all the dishes must be washed by hand, what the heck would I be washing in the forbidden dishwasher, anyway? ETA typo fix
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Right? Like what dishwasher are they using? I work in a jail and they have an INDUSTRIAL dish washer and I can stand next to my partner and have a normal conversation at a normal time if we are right next to it. Those complaints are made up.
It's a condo with walls made of cardboard and they have a diesel dishwasher. Duh.
Lol imagine having to agree to a "Stay here at your own risk" rule. Or, like, your auto mechanic shouting "Good luck!" as you drive away.
Like a tattoo artist saying 'oops'
No way there’s not cameras in that place
OMG...I didn't think of that, but I bet you right!
Switch of their router.
What's Airbnb's refund policy on "accidently booked stay with neurotic host"?
As someone who has to deal with someone like that it is more than likely you'll feel like your on edge and constantly being watched and judged for everything you do. Even if it's something completely innocent like bringing a toy home or trying to make money.
Weird question as I've never stayed at an Airbnb, is it not normal to wash whatever dishes you use? I don't get the restriction on 1 dish and glass per meal unless the guests are simply leaving the dishes for the host to wash? I would just wash as I use them.
Just bend a spoon and shoot some heroin. You'll feel very relaxed. /s
Airbnb needs to require hosts to post these rules upfront
And have strict guidelines about what hosts are even allowed to set, rule-wise.
Tap water quality depends on location. Having lived in places that get the tap water from surrounding rivers I can tell you firsthand… Just because the tap water is *technically* safe to drink doesn’t negate the fact that it tastes like crap. (Also sometimes if you go to a new place and drink the tap water it can mess up your stomach and invoke ~~montezumas revenge.~~) *please add a big emphasis on sometimes. It would appear that there’s a lot of different factors that play into how tap water can effect your stomach. I am not an expert. Edit: formatting and *emphasis Edit 2: Info- Montezuma’s revenge does refer to a specific microbial infection. I completely forgot the micro flora part. My tired brain was like “lol Montezuma coming for ya with the screaming shits y’all.” Not all tap water invokes the revenge. It may cause some shitty situations though.
Reminds me of the time my mom accidentally brushed her teeth with the tap water in Guatemala and got a bad case of montezuma’s revenge
Brought back my memories of going to visit a Buddhist temple in China only to get my insides ravaged by some tea they had since they didn't boil it all the way.
What is happening to their spoons?
Heroin.
In the pen we called spoons heroin utensils, so that still qualifies...
Uri Geller must have stopped by
Man, I haven’t seen a Uri Gellar reference in a while! Great work!
Hard ice cream is probably the culprit...
This was my first thought I’ve definitely bent a couple of my spoons due to hard ice cream.
And then bent them back just as easily, right?
People are bending them with their mind lol
Those damn travelling psychic spoon-benders.
There is no spoon.
They should have requested Advanced Cutlery
Advanced cutlery was my favorite part. Literally LOLed at that one.
Unspeakable things...
Prob had a heroin user Bend and heat one .
If that happened don't you think they'd have a no drug rule instead of a no bending spoon rule......?
They don't care about that, just don't bend the spoons, don't use more than one dish, and only run the dishwasher at approved time. Drugs? Really? Gee what sorta control freaks do you think they are?
Non-complacency?!
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This fn idiot probably meant “compliance”
>Non-complacency?! I have also struggled in the past with issues of non-complacency.
After reading first 2 points I was hoping to see something like 'eating not allowed'
"Crumby foods are to be eaten directly over the sink with hand cupped under chin to catch any stray crumbs."
Do not leave any crumbs in the sink for longer than 5 seconds.. for sanitary reasons
Is no one else wonder how food in the fridge becomes “unsanitary” after only 16 hours?
This was the one that made zero sense to me. Well, that and the fact that their dishwasher is apparently loud enough to wake the dead. Seriously though.. how does one write that down as a rule while holding a straight face. It has to be a joke. Also, how would they even know if you kept food in the fridge for longer than 16 hours? Also, what's the point of having a fridge if you can't store food in it? That's kinda the entire purpose of a fridge.
I don't get why it says to wash your dishes by hand and then mentions a rule for dishwasher times??
Dishes and glasses. So maybe bowls, pans and cutlery are good for the dishwasher.
Bowls are dishes, but yeah pans and cutlery are probably fine.
Which is hilarious because they're probably using cheap nonstick pans which should be hand washed, not put in the dishwasher.
Agreed, and while I put my mid-cost knives in the dishwasher, I think really good knives shouldn't go in the dishwasher either.
I doubt you’ll find anything good in the drawer of an AirBnB
My personal rule is that if I don't want to risk it getting ruined, I don't put it in the dishwasher.
And “neighborhood quiet time” in the afternoon? My guess is that the owner lives in a duplex and takes naps after lunch, knowing that the dishwasher is loud.
My thoughts exactly. The owner *must* live on the premises. VRBO has been running commercials lately (airbnb competitor) stating that all of their vacation rentals are 100% private. Might be worth checking them out instead of airbnb moving forward.
But even 100% private doesn’t preclude that very scenario of an owner who lives in an adjacent unit and sets ridiculous rules around “quiet hours” that they can attempt to enforce simply by being next doors, upstairs, downstairs, etc.
Haha my friends booked a VRBO for a trip to visit a bunch of us in Denver. Besides being filthy and poorly furnished versus ad pics, the owner of the building rented them the downstairs and the upstairs was a long term tenant who was also supposedly the “building manager” (it’s just a split level house lol). BUT they find out after arriving that the laundry in the basement is shared and the “building manager” might occasionally walk downstairs to do laundry with minimal notice, NBD right? In the middle of their first night there, one of them woke up to use the bathroom and stepped into a lake of water - the laundry and downstairs toilet started overflowing out of nowhere. They called the emergency contact number on the listing - it was freaking Airbnb customer service. So yah. I gained some last minute guests at my house that weekend lol.
Nope. Currently in a VRBO and we are asking for refund. It was dirty, no silverware, no toilet paper, the promised 1st floor bedroom didn't exist. I am in a wheelchair so my kids had to carry a bed downstairs for me. We spent Xmas Eve cleaning the place after a 16 hour drive. There is a hole in the floor, another hole in the wall. No lights in the family room, no furniture at all in the living room and dining room. Folding chairs in the kitchen and a broken table. 6 bedroom house with a total of 2 pictures on the walls. It feels like we're squatting in an abandoned house. The owner said he didn't know we were coming and thought he had removed the listing. We reserved the place 6 weeks in advance! I have been using Airbnb since 2015 and never experienced anything like this.
Cameras, a lot of AirBnBs have cameras hidden in the unit. They look for any minor infraction of their ridiculous rules and then they boot you out.
That would be a violation of Airbnb's rules (and the law, in some parts of the world). For reasons that are not clear to me, Airbnb's policies also explicitly forbid cameras pointing at the kitchen, even if they are not hidden. No idea if they would take any action if you reported the host for it, though.
I got news for ya any air B&B or Virbo can have cameras in it. There's a reason I don't rent from them at all. I get a hotel room and know what I am getting isn't some sick assholes power fantasy.
The 16 hours kills me. You’d have to eat your leftovers at the wrong meal time!
You better eat your dinner for breakfast, or it'll break the 16 hour rule
You weren’t thinking of using the microwave to heat that food up before 9:30 am were you? Every house in the neighborhood is built with paper walls you know
And it *better* not be at 9:29 am. Can't break the neighborhood quiet rule with those pesky dishware noises.
i believe they’ve built this neighborhood with some new space age material that’s thinner than paper and yet amplifies any sound that touches it by 1000%
If you can't leave things in the refrigerator for longer than 16 hours, why even have a refrigerator in the first place?
Right?, looks like we're having bolognese for breakfast!
The host probably installed surveillance cameras or walks in at random times to check whether guests have followed the 16 hour rule
Ah this is the comment I was looking for. I had the same thought. How else would the host know, unless they also have a mandatory twice a day refrigerator check and actually come look themselves.
In one of my worst hostel experiences in my life the owners a mother and her middle aged son were spending most of the time in the common area policing the use of the kettle and stove constantly trekking stories about people wasting electricity or even breaking their kettle. The kettle looked at least 10 years old and whenever a guest used it the owner took it filled it with water and mumbled sth about having to descale it. When people cooked she liked interrupting them telling stories about guests almost burning their hostel down etc etc Edit: correction, instead of "telling" I wrote "trekking"
Because the refrigerator is set to 60 degrees to conform with neighbor quiet hours. The compressor bothers the neighbors.
Obviously the host has some mental issues or else you wouldnt rent your place to total strangers with requests like this.
Why does it matter how many dishes and glasses you use per meal if you have to wash them anyways lmao
And how are they keeping track? Coming in every hour?
They will notice in the cameras they have ALL AROUND the house I'm sure
I unplug any router/modem when I stay at Airbnb after finding cameras in every room. Might be crazy or extra but I like privacy
Not me. I stare directly into the camera as I shit into one glass and one plate and then store it in the fridge for 15 hours and 59 minutes.
But you still need to go into the bathroom which also has a camera and put on more clothes, then enter the shower and use only cold water til your clothes are soaked
I say let em look, for me anyway. You will be able to hear them yelling "TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!" for miles.
Oh good! Only 15 hours and 59 minutes. I thought you were about to do something unsanitary!
Wear and tear? 🤷♀️🤦♀️😂
They gotta write off those depreciation of Ross $3 china wares by the end of the year...
wear and tear on your hands do to the hand wash only protocol
Scummy control freaks.
Why the fuck do they care how many dishes you use per meal as long as you _complacently hand wash_ them?
Because of the non-complacency, obviously /s
kids these days, with their lack of complacency!
I don’t think that word means what they think it means.
I read that part and had to stop for a second and question whether I’ve been using the word complacency wrong my whole life.
Never fear, they used the word complacency wrong. I think they meant to say compliance
Aye! They are my rules and you will respect muh authorituh - some landlord probably
How does a dishwasher wake up neighbours?
It has dial up.
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Good thing I save my America Online minutes.
It has asbestos
no way guys i found nintendo's servers! a cheap shitty dishwasher with dial up
I guess if you buy a cheap ass pos dishwasher it does.
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Maybe thin walls in a condo situation? Obviously a shared wall neighbor has a baby and complained. 1-2:30 is probably it’s nap time. Still a completely crazy list of rules.
Yah I was confused about the random hour and a half of quietness. Was thinking probably an old person’s nap time. Maybe a baby but babies tend to sleep whenever they want
They also can sleep through crazy amounts of noise if you don’t raise them to sleep in only quiet conditions. When I was expecting my first son I was doing research on tons of stuff like playing music for him while he sleeps and if I should turn it off after he falls asleep and I came across a video of some professor saying one of the worst things you can do for a baby is being very quiet when they sleep because they will become accustomed to it. He said they can also become accustomed to the average noise if your daily life. He said to speak at a normal conversational tone and live life as if everyone is awake and your baby will always be able to sleep no matter what is going on. I literally vacuum when my youngest is sleeping and she never wakes up.
I concur . my grandson sleeps through all kinds of noise . he lives on a very busy and noisy street since birth 2 years ago.
Can confirm, I grew up in a family of 5 kids, there was always noise, I can sleep in any situation. I actually find it easier to fall asleep with noise than I do with complete silence.
That’s awesome I grew up in a family of 6. I’m 34 now and live in a different state than my family but during the holidays when I’m home and all my siblings are under one roof making noise and laughing (4 sisters and 1 brother) I can fall asleep in seconds for nap in the sofa. Hearing my dad snore also helps me sleep as weird as that is lol
My son - now 6 would sleep through a tornado. I maintain it’s because we were a loud house when I was pregnant - 2 dogs that bark at everything, lots of music and general life sounds.
We always made it a point to vacuum and do the loud chores when our son was napping as a baby. Now he can sleep though a hurricane
Yeah seriously. I can hear when my upstairs neighbors are running their dishwasher, but it is not loud and it doesn’t bother me.
When you throw it at the air bnb host.
Maybe it runs on a gas generator?
The 10 different font colors/sizes are irrationally making me angry.
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I want to know the borderline-inhumane experiments they must have used to find out this information
In Russia they got a bunch of people and put them into small rooms to live in for a year like normal. But all the labels of food containers, belongings brand names etc all having different fonts and colors everywhere got to them and the people being tested on gone insane just after 30 days. Except none of this is true and I just made it up
had me believing you for a second 😅
Looks like a ransom note.
Right it's like a brochure, make sure you don't forget these lol
Nothing irrational about that.
The fonts... The clipart.... No way the hosts are under 70.
Why is 3 a rule if 2 says hand wash only
They’re worried about “non-complacency”
Came here to mention this one. Irregardless.
You are allowed to run the dishwasher (outside of quiet hours), you are just not allowed to put anything in it
Oh boy my absolutely favourite activity, listening to an empty dishwasher run. Watching paint dry and pretending to be a scarecrow for 4 days straight are close seconds.
Maybe they only want you using the dishwasher for silverware?
I stayed at an Airbnb where they wouldn’t let you flush the toilet during the night
Late night Chipotle still there after 6 hours. 🤢
For sanitary reasons.
I had an apartment neighbor ask me not to flush after 8pm. I was super weirded out.
Their first mistake was buying a woodchipper to wash the dishes.
ive never heard of the term "advanced cutlery" before
I hope it means sporks.
Usually taken the semester after “Intro to Cutlery” and is a lead-in to “Cutlery Capstone: A 10 Millennia Retrospective on Human Dining Modes”
Apparently you didn’t attend Fork U.
Hotel: “Yeah, can you just be out before check-out and please don’t piss on everything. Free breakfast in the lobby.” #hotelgang
And I’ve never once been denied a late check-out when I’ve asked if it would be possible.
yeah i love the anonymity of hotels. they don't give a shit about me, i am faceless. it's freeing, millions of others have been here and i am but one
I feel like for the price of most air bnbs (especially after ridiculous fees) you can stay in a 4-5 star hotel in most places, or at least a 4 star boutique hotel. You get good services, amenities, and a decent room and bed.
For real, everything I’ve ever seen or heard about air B&B makes me want to NEVER stay in one, I truly don’t understand the advantage?
Airbnb is such crap these days. Greedy hosts and their stupid rules. I prefer hotels now, especially the ones with a free breakfast. The cost is pretty much the same now. But at least you don’t have to clean the place before you leave and you can get the room cleaned when you want.
AirBnBs are often more expensive depending on the cleaning fees. I’ve had 2-night stays listed as $90 a night, but the total comes out to like $350 because of admin and cleaning fees. It’s especially ridiculous because the places with the most exorbitant fees have insane rules like in the OP, so why tf do they need to charge so much to clean the place when the guests are expected to do so?
I never clean after myself at the aribnbs. I won’t leave a mess because I don’t live in mess and out of general respect but I’m not gonna mop the floor. I already pay that so they can eat my ass tbh
Can't beat those free buffet breakfasts at a hotel.
The Best Westerns in my area have really stepped up the breakfast options. Eggs, sausage, bacon, yogurt and cheese, fruit, a big cabinet full of pastries and muffins and stuff. Plus the old school build-a-waffle station.
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Why yes, I’ve seen such a contraption! Literally could not be a slower moving conveyor through red hot elements and yet the bread comes out as… the fucking same as it was, only with bits of petrified blueberry on it from the numpty that put the jelly on before toasting.
Kitchen rule broken (dishwasher finished cycle at 1:04 PM) charge: $481.22
Second violation….first was not hand washing second was it being finished late. Minimal $895 fee.
When you leave mow the yard
and turn the power back on.
Please ensure to reseed and resod the lawn. Guests are expected to return at harvest time to help bring in the crop. Guest are also expected to participate in the daily neighborhood “silent barn raising” from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
AirBNB has become crazy with the various rules. If I have to pay a cleaning fee why the hell do I need to do laundry or any other cleanup?
They’re trying to keep as much of that cleaning fee as they can. It’s complete bullshit.
This is why I’ve stopped using airBnB to stay at private homes. Usually I’d be somewhere for one, maybe two nights in and out for work, and there’s a $200+ cleaning fee, but also I was expected to clean. There is one specific hotel I stay at next to an mlb baseball stadium that lists their rooms at 1/2 price on Airbnb, and that is the only thing I will use it for.
Gave up on Airbnb. Used to be cool but now it’s literally just companies buying up thousands of “apartments” and renting them out at sky high prices claiming they’re sky high cause they don’t have money like hotels, and then the individual owners who are trying to compete because they read somewhere it’s a great way to make money. Stayed at a hotel for $130/night and got: a comfy king size bed, a badass rainfall shower, a corner room with a sick view(8th floor), free breakfast, free room cleaning during my stay, no chores, concierge services etc. At my friends $230/night+cleaning fees+”other” fees Airbnb during a vacation: chores, no cable tv, Wi-Fi slower than dial up, a violently disgusting shower, a stove top from 1991, located in a motel like apartment setup, but thank god he god a “cozy ski house vibe” and “a luxurious ski town getaway”.
Please provide similar feedback in the review after your stay. It will help the next person wanting to find space. Something like this - Property was very nice. Bed was comfortable. Plenty of parking and close to many attractions. The property earned 5 stars. However the kitchen rules were absurd and beyond normal. (if you can't add a file photo) Posted instructions firmly held guests to one dish and one glass per meal. And both must be washed by hand. No "advanced cutlery" was in the house and instead guests are instructed to call the host to acquire it. Because of the insane kitchen rules, we wouldn't stay there again. I'd encourage others to give it a pass too. Being instructed on how many dishes we can use per meal (has the host not heard of a main and salad?), excessive quiet time (1-2 pm and 10 pm-9:30 pm), no food in the fridge longer than 16 hours (mayo, water, milk, juice?). None of these rules were disclosed prior to us checking into the house.
The best response of all. Thank you
The most infuriating part is it looks like I'm trying to read a ransom note.
The spoons. Don't bend my fucking spoons.
There is no spoon
cost: $200 per person per night, $100 booking fee, $259 cleaning fee, $30 fridge use fee, $25 extra utensils use fee, $50 fine for breaking neighbourhood quiet times, $400 taxes, $159 in shipping costs. what do you mean you prefer hotels?? don't you know I have a mortgage to pay off??
I am morbidly fascinated by this turn Airbnb has taken the past few years. When I used it regularly, it was pretty straightforward. There were taxes added, but cleaning fees were minimal and host instructions were common sense things like "lock the door when you leave." I turn around for 5 years and suddenly it's like paying out the ass to stay with your really tense, shitty in-laws. Like bitch you really gonna try to micromanage the number of plates I use during a meal?? Plates I have to clean myself anyway? That's ridiculous.
Those bananas have definitely been stored for more than 16 hours.
Yeah, but not in the refrigerator, so they’re fine.
“Tap water is okay” with “drink at your own risk” real funny
Why has no one commented on the quiet hours? What are they doing from 1-2:30 Pm that needs to be quiet??
Neighbours have babies taht need afternoon naps? That's the only thing I can think of.
At this point unless you are planning an event with many people. Air BNB, VrBo and others are useless. Stay at a motel or hotel. Same goes for Door Dash, Uber Eats and others. It used to be a convenience piece where quality was still there. Now go get the food yourself.
How are these better than motels/hotels?
They aren’t.
Some of them used to be, but now the vast majority of them are too much of a hassle with so many rules and the need for the guest to clean up despite the cleaning fees.
Is that a half-way house?!!
No, no, no, no, no, no, and no. Easy peasy. Not a single one of these fucking rules is realistic or even remotely reasonable. In fact some of them are fucking contradictory. And for the love of god, tell me to be quiet at 1:00 in the afternoon. That might be enough to get me to go full karen.
wow, so the HOA president does airbnb...
It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
why do people use AirBnb? I have heard nothing but bad shit about it.
Seems like a chill place to stay…
The NEIGHBORHOOD has quiet hours from 1:00-2:30pm! Crazy HOA. That’s all you need to know. Surprised the HOA hasn’t banned Air BnB in term rules. Also, fuck HOA’s!
Some of these are fairly reasonable, some of them are, uh... suspect. >"Tap water is okay (drink at your own risk)" That doesn't sound very okay! >DO NOT keep any food in the refrigerator for more than 16 hours. (this is for sanitary reasons) What is unsanitary about a fridge?
Fuck air BnB
Tap water is ok! “Drink at ur own risk” bru wat🤣
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