airbnb

Besides the run-of-the-mill rooms, apartments and homes you can rent on Airbnb in every size, shape and price range, they also offer “special” or “different” types of accommodations. We’ve stayed…

Hotels have been around for a long time. Centuries, in fact (Psst! Here’s a brief history of hotels & motels). Over time, different hotel brands and come and gone, and…

The only things guaranteed in life are death and taxes. Hotel room taxes (a.k.a. “hotel occupancy tax,” a.k.a. “hotel accommodations tax,” a.k.a. “local occupancy tax,” a.k.a. “transient occupancy tax,” a.k.a.…

We visited Kauai for six nights in February of 2022. For the first three nights, we stayed on the island’s south shore at the Grand Hyatt Kauai. While that property…

Some of Airbnb’s rules have always been, for lack of a better word, “fluid.” For example, for the past several years, Airbnb has had ongoing problems with their rented homes…

In the fall of 2021, we stayed for 6 nights in New Orleans. We planned on spending most days eating and listening to live jazz, so we decided to stay…

Thanks to COVID, our travel patterns in 2020 & 2021 were much different from what we expected. Most importantly, we started to change our mind about vacation rentals, which included…

Randa B. is just an ordinary citizen, living in Central Florida. She works behind the scenes at a local affiliate TV station. She supports the arts. She loves animals. And…

Over the past two years, we’ve learned much about booking with Airbnb. Things such as how to search for properties that were doing enhanced cleaning between guests. We also learned…

Before 2020, some people predicted that services like Airbnb would be a major disruptor in the lodging space. Opening up the inventory of individual renters to the masses would drive…