News and notes from around the interweb:
- Maybe don’t use antique family heirlooms as the furnishing for your Airbnb?
@beckypearlatx Y’all I dont get it 🤯 We stayed at an airbnb / vrbo house with another family over the weekend. The rules displayed all over the house just killed me. It seemed like every room and every surface had a note. It almost felt like it wasn’t a vacation with So. Many. Rules. #airbnb #vrbo #summervacation ♬ original sound – Becky Levin Navarro - 30% bonus on transfers from American Express Membership Rewards to British Airways through August 31, 2023.
- 70% bonus transferring Chase Ultimate Rewards to IHG One Rewards through July 31, 2023. Don’t do this. IHG points still have too little value even with 70% more of them.
- LAX has banned single use plastic water bottles so the bottles sold there will be metal. They encourage you to bring your own bottles and have installed hydration stations. I don’t believe these are sanitized on an appropriate cadence. People put the tops of their bottles up against the spouts.
- $300 million transformed the St. Regis Princeville as the 1Hotel Hanalei Bay
- Selling self-care items in the hotel mini-bar (Skift)
- Adding status as an incentive to transfer points into airline miles is smart. Requiring a transfer of 900,000 miles to earn silver?
Got to wonder what goes through their minds sometimes. Transfer 900K miles, get Silver status.
https://t.co/777CK4s0Nn— Mark (@drdoot) July 1, 2023
- The new Air Canada lounge in San Francisco has an outdoor deck.
It was a lot of fun seeing @AirCanada’s newest Maple Leaf Lounge at @flySFO, which opened this week. The property is beautiful & an experimenting ground for Air Canada to tinker with new ideas, concepts & offerings. Plus, it has the ONLY airline lounge outdoor terrace at SFO. pic.twitter.com/KgkIy5Dl4K
— Tim Jue (@timjue) June 30, 2023
These people are just looking to see how they can get more money out of you. Another reason to Never stay at an Airbnb.
Just to let you know I couldn’t read your story because the View from the Wing floating ads expan rather large over stories on an Android device and there’s no way to shrink siE or stop it from floating around the page when I try to move text location.
So you message is missed.
@Neil McAslan – thank you for flagging, I am not able to replicate this, any other feedback or info appreciated to help me track this down
Also have issues with all yhe floating ads and pop-ups on VFTW webpage with Galaxy S22+ (Chrome browser) – I don’t have Samsung Internet (withnpopup blocker) set to open Twitter URLs
Regarding Airbnb notes: I would have followed the instructions and then just before checking out switched all of the tags to different locations. After all, there didn’t seem to be a note saying “Don’t touch notes.”
The notes are jarring overkill but the substance of the notes are reasonable, given that the spirit of Airbnb is to rent out the home you personally live in and have a stake in — not to rent out a home that you own as an investment property specifically to earn revenue from Airbnb.
All the rules are fine to me except for the threat of charging renters for a broken bed. It’s fair to say “no jumping”, but not fair to charge renters for a broken bed. Broken beds are a consequence of poorly constructed furniture. Even a 100 lb person lying completely flat and not moving on the bed can trigger the collapse of cheap slats or supports underneath the bed.
The rules on Airbnb that are unreasonable are “action items” such as chores that were not disclosed prominently in the listing.
AirBnB hosts need to take a hospitality course before they can rent their property.
Actually these rules seem rather reasonable and, like most rules, are probably based on problems that actually happened.
These rules are not reasonable especially if renting to parents with children. Another reason I seldom consider AirBnb. You are renting a home not a museum.
Plain stupid to have furniture that’s so fragile it can’t be touched or used.