“ It sucks but I think you need to pick the right Airbnb - I look through a lot of places before I confirm one.”

Filtering through hundreds of properties and reading tons of reviews on Airbnb takes so much time, and you can still end up hating the place. And you really have to read every review to get a feel for if the place would be a good fit for your family, or if there are any surprises not listed in the property description.

Hotels typically don’t require that exhaustive degree of research, and are often easily accommodating if you find your room is not up to par. You have far less recourse with rentals.

I have never stayed at an Airbnb preCovid where the check out time was after 11a (typically it was at 11a)
I have never stayed at a hotel where preCovid where check out was before 11a (typically it was 11a) - and often - they could not honor a request for late check out or they wouldn't be able to make that decision until the night before of checkout day. Typically the Airbnb check out times are either 10/1030 or 11a. If you request late check out, it's the same deal as hotel - depends on the situation. But I just came back from a Rome Airbnb where I was given the luxury of checking in early (like at 1030a) which most hotels are not too keen on.

I have never stayed at an Airbnb where I had to actually put dishes back after running dishwasher nor that I actually had to run the dishwasher! The only expectation I have ever had was to take out trash and postCovid I am not seeing as much of that request. I would not set myself up to stay at a place that upfront listed this expectation. Stay somewhere else, duh!

We stay at Airbnbs because it's cheaper for our family - we don't have to cram into one room with kids. It just makes so much more sense. We tend to prefer a home v hotel to stay in anywhere although if we are going to specific places, I will still pick a hotel but again, most often, the hotel is not a good financial option for us. I don't love the Airbnb model as it is so $$ but it still is cheaper than a hotel and almost always, more comfortable in that I don't have just one room.

It sucks but I think you need to pick the right Airbnb - I look through a lot of places before I confirm one. In the earlier days, I had not the best experiences with them but if you also look at ratings, it will help you find good ones.

I just checked out of a New York hotel (courtyard) where checkout was 12 noon.

If you’re upset about earlier Che out times, it’s probably in a high turnover place like Saturday to Saturday beach rentals.

Also, dare you to clean the 15 rooms a housekeeper does, for $20/hour, in an average shift.

Signed,
-hotel employee

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Anonymous wrote:I think 10AM is reasonable but when they have an entire list of things for you to do - strip sheets, start laundry, load dishwasher, take out trash, etc. then it is really tight.

11:19 here. You can no longer just load and run the dishwasher. Now various owners (and Jack Lingo) want you to put the dishes and silverware away.

They can want whatever they want. Doesn’t mean I’m doing it. We load the dishwasher and start it. That’s it. We don’t do half of what they ask. We’ve never had a problem. Jack Lingo sucks but we’re stuck with them for the house we like.

Anonymous wrote:Airbnb host here -- Our check out is 10am but we require nothing of guests, just pack and go.

We don't have a "team" of cleaners, we have one who travels 25 minutes to our property and handles several others.

I expect the same people who want to check out late want to check in early and expect the place to be spotless.

Pick two of the three.

We pick neither and just go with hotels, where we can have it all and then some. Ha!

Anonymous wrote:We don’t do rentals but hotels routinely extend checkout from 11am to noon for us. It’s rare they cannot and when they can’t they are always apologetic about it.

Agreed. Sometimes we’ve even been able to get a 1pm or 2pm checkout at hotels.

Hotels are simply more accommodating all around, and make for a much less stressful vacation IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out time is 9 am in Rehoboth. Another reason not to go there.

https://www.jacklingo.com/rental-policies/check-in-out

Oh wow! Clean outside grill and shower!!! The todo list in the link alone needs half day of work.

Last year we stayed in a DE rental like this. We decided to check out the night before as it would have been too stressful to get everything done and 2 small children fed and packed that early in the morning.

Or... just ignore the directives and complain that the customer service is very poor if clients are expected to do the company's work for them.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out time is 9 am in Rehoboth. Another reason not to go there.

https://www.jacklingo.com/rental-policies/check-in-out

Oh wow! Clean outside grill and shower!!! The todo list in the link alone needs half day of work.

I wonder if this is new? We stay in a Lingo property in August each year and it is quite apparent that neither the outside shower nor grill have been cleaned by the (many weeks of) renters before us.

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Anonymous wrote:Because our cleaning people have to clean 2 houses between someone checking out and the next person checking in. Everyone wants a late checkout, AND an early check in. Don’t know how you all think the cleaners can do their jobs.

then maybe you need more cleaning people.

+1 places are cheaping out and don't want to hire as much cleaning staff. Hence early check outs and later check ins.

I refused to go to a beach house in NJ this summer because when I looked at all the cleaning requirements + bringing own sheets and towels etc., it became apparent this is not how I want to spend my money and limited vacation time.

Airbnb host here -- Our check out is 10am but we require nothing of guests, just pack and go.

We don't have a "team" of cleaners, we have one who travels 25 minutes to our property and handles several others.

I expect the same people who want to check out late want to check in early and expect the place to be spotless.

Pick two of the three.

Anonymous wrote:I think 10AM is reasonable but when they have an entire list of things for you to do - strip sheets, start laundry, load dishwasher, take out trash, etc. then it is really tight.

11:19 here. You can no longer just load and run the dishwasher. Now various owners (and Jack Lingo) want you to put the dishes and silverware away.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Check out time is 9 am in Rehoboth. Another reason not to go there.

https://www.jacklingo.com/rental-policies/check-in-out

Oh wow! Clean outside grill and shower!!! The todo list in the link alone needs half day of work.

Last year we stayed in a DE rental like this. We decided to check out the night before as it would have been too stressful to get everything done and 2 small children fed and packed that early in the morning.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because our cleaning people have to clean 2 houses between someone checking out and the next person checking in. Everyone wants a late checkout, AND an early check in. Don’t know how you all think the cleaners can do their jobs.

then maybe you need more cleaning people.

That wouldn’t make a difference. The cleaning person agrees to do more than one house in a day. They usually try and do 2 or 3 on a summer Saturday. I don’t know until the day off if they’re doing ours first/second/third

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because our cleaning people have to clean 2 houses between someone checking out and the next person checking in. Everyone wants a late checkout, AND an early check in. Don’t know how you all think the cleaners can do their jobs.

then maybe you need more cleaning people.

A lot of the people who do these jobs are immigrants and many are undocumented immigration is way down because of the focus of republicans. This is one of the main reasons’ employers are having a hard time getting employees. It also was the reason the US population growth rate is about zero.

Not at the beaches they’re not. We’ve had 3 cleaners, they’ve all been white English speaking women.