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I copped a complaint from a host once. “My apartment is not a hotel,” they wrote. Well, the price is similar – and now the rules are, too.
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I copped a complaint from a host once. “My apartment is not a hotel,” they wrote. Well, the price is similar – and now the rules are, too.
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Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other time-consuming cleaning chores.
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Accommodation platform acts after long-standing guest complaints over doing dishes, taking out rubbish and stripping beds
Airbnb will ban hosts from requiring guests to complete check-out chores such as stripping beds, washing dishes or taking out rubbish, under new rules.
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The updated policy will apply to all reservations booked on the accommodation site on or after 20 November.
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Airbnb has revised its rules to reduce the tasks a host can expect a guest to perform at the end of their stay — and washing dishes has been wiped from the to-do list.
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Some hosts are threatening to strike, while others are plotting ways around Airbnb’s new restrictions. Guests, meanwhile, are celebrating.
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No more fines for not taking out the trash at your Airbnb.