r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 7h ago

Society New Airbnb rules ban hosts from making guests wash dishes, do laundry & other checkout chores

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/new-airbnb-rules-ban-hosts-from-making-guests-wash-dishes-do-laundry-other-checkout-chores-3420832/
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u/GoonWithhTheWind 7h ago edited 6h ago

“When you're in someone else's home, cleaning up after yourself is a basic courtesy. I have cleaners who make the house spotless between guests, but their job isn't to do the dishes for my guests.”

Like bruh, we’re not guests, we’re paying customers. You don’t force your guests in your personal home to pay. Also, it is your cleaners job. If it’s not, pay them more so that they do it lmao

Edit: they deleted the post, crine

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u/rudebii 6h ago

I don't charge guests staying at my home.

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u/unsuitableasf 6h ago

Me neither. The 3.99 hospitality fee is simply so I don’t sit on my phone the whole time

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u/ser_darkstar 8m ago

I also don't make them do the dishes??? Who does that? 

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u/rolfraikou 2h ago

Also, when I'm a guest at a friend's, I actually get the satisfaction of "no-no, you're doing this, I will do that!"

Like, if Airbnb involved having the owner actually participate in the event and was actually some kind of host that also did things, which would be weird, maybe cleaning rules would make more sense.

My friends don't force me to do everything.

They are personally doing some of it too, in real time.

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u/hoax1337 3h ago

Uhhh... Am I weird for always doing the dishes when I rent a holiday apartment? It kinda did feel like basic courtesy to me. Same with taking out the trash.

Laundry definitely seems excessive, though.

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u/GoonWithhTheWind 3h ago

You’re fine if you’re doing it under no obligation. But when it’s a requirements, that’s irking. Imagine a restaurant requiring you to stack up all your dirty dishes and silverware after your done. It’s a nice thing I do, but if I was told to do, then that restaurant can F off

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u/Notorious-ly 3h ago

I guess it's a "courtesy," but you're paying these people. You're the customer and you don't owe them anything. My courtesy is not intentionally leaving it in complete and utter disarray. I'd expect to treat it the same way I'd treat a hotel - I'm not going to go out of my way to make the employees' life harder, but I'm also not going to do all their work for them.

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u/Somanylyingliars 59m ago

I've seen the way some of my co workers have left their room. Food on tables, cups everywhere, overflowing trash. Sometimes trash on the floor. Wet towels draped everywhere. Come on, dude, do you live in a barn? These hotel workers have a tough life we don't need to make harder. So bad I refuse to stay in any BnB w the swines.

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u/Notorious-ly 6m ago

Yeah, I went on a work trip one time and a coworker's room looked like my spring break condo - just totally trashed. I at least make sure trash and towels and stuff are neatly organized as they can be. Luckily my wife is the same, so we're always sure to get our own room/place.

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u/dk133333 3h ago

I never understood this. I ask my renters / customers to not trash my house. I like... live there part of the year... but its expected that they get hotel like cleaning on me. Its baked in. I cant stand some bnb hosts who charge out the nose, have a cleaning fee AND want you to make the place spotless before you go. F that