Kingdom Trails trail closures
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How do people even rent anymore? Airbnb has priced itself out of competition. The fees are just astronomical now. You can find a room for $110 a night and the total for 2 nights is $484 when the fees are applied (I just tried this for the hell of it, so those are actual numbers).
Hotels.com is less than half the price and it lists the same realm of condos for places up there. But I am curious what people use to find rentals now.
I can’t stand when I see $150/night and a 2 day rental is actually $800 with the cleaning fees and other fees. Sometimes I’ll email the people, and make them an offer closer to the actual listed price. They can check out my profile on Airbnb and see that I’m not going to mess the house up. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Typically, if you’re willing to go midweek, closer to a rental date, they get much more eager to deal.
don
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Totally depends on what part of Mass they are from. Like NJ, the type of people vary a lot throughout the state (I was raised on the Western side near 91 - I'm far from perfect but got more New England values then from Worcester east 😉 ).
The past two years, I have researched airbnb has an option since everyone was talking about it and how awesome. But everytime I looked, the fees made it expensive and I was thought, am i missing something / not doing it right?
Depends on what you're doing. I've stayed mostly in Air BnBs for many years.
Urban areas especially will tend to have more deals. DC/Montreal/Richmond/Savannah we've done entire house or condo for $50 a night at times. Much better than a boring hotel. Especially in cities where the cost to have a hotel are so high that the baseline price for any safe hotel will be a good chunk of change. But most of my experience isn't in places where it's tourist heavy.
If you have a larger group or family, it becomes even more worth it as you can rent a whole condo/house for less than a few hotel rooms almost anywhere.
It's got thrown for a loop on Covid however. Plus many cities have been changing laws either disallowing AirBnB or restrictions.
This is what apparently happened across all of New England. I read that a bunch of places were pulled from Airbnb.
Yeah, I look for Pittsburgh last year for a 3 bedroom condo And the cost was more than two hotel rooms at a super nice hotel. Again, doing something wrong.
We stayed at an airbnb in Miami two years ago. Miami is one of the cities that does not allow airbnb to operate, and they have been known to patrol and kick people out. We didn't have a problem, and we were told to just say we were friends of "Bill" or whoever the owner of the place was if anyone stopped by or asked.
If you are staying in a popular area with tons of options, it's usually easier to not get ripped off on the fees. Even with fees, it usually comes out the same or a little cheaper than a decent hotel room, and for that same-ish price you get a full condo/house.
If you are staying in a popular area with tons of options, it's usually easier to not get ripped off on the fees. Even with fees, it usually comes out the same or a little cheaper than a decent hotel room, and for that same-ish price you get a full condo/house.
I think your and @Santapez are searching for places for a couple. Maybe there is a better market there?m My searchs have been for 5-8 people
That's possible. For a bigger place maybe try vrbo instead?
In the cities it's usually hotels and the city fighting AirBnB over the fact that they are going against the hotels which are big business, or skipping out on the outrageous taxes that hotel rooms pay. The other big issue in very large cities is the apartment/coop buildings that people get places as AirBnB rentals that turn into noisy disasters for the actual people that live in the building. Touristy places that draw younger crowds is the latter one.
I wouldn't be surprised if New England pushed hard against AirBnB this year purely to keep out of state people away during the pandemic.
It's annoying as if I'm doing more than one night I almost always would rather stay in an AirBnB.
Didn’t jersey remove all Airbnb reservations on the shore counties?
No idea, but it's an excellent way to keep people out. Of course I doubt they'd do that with hotels.
Hotels are more likely more dangerous than AirBnB regarding Covid, just in the shared-spaces aspects of hotels.
Anyway, I haven't committed to anything on my August vacation trip and I'm sure this will all screw me up when heading to New England.
Captain Brainstorm
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Up in the Stowe and surrounding areas (Waterbury, Morrisville, etc.) its definitely a sellers market. So, so many people moving up here full time to escape. The number of kids in the schools have doubled for the coming year. People are getting what they ask for their houses/property.
I think hotels are limited to 50% capacity but not sure
What did you think of North Conway?
I enjoyed it. Finding a condo or place with a kitchen was impossible, so we ended up in a pretty big hotel room. But the area itself is great. We were there 5 full days and did a hike every day as well as went mountain biking. The outdoors scene is fabulous up there. Weather is also great.
Yeah I love it up there! Good beer scene if you're into that too
Haha nope. Stopped drinking 3+ years ago. I don’t begrudge anyone for it. I just find that dragging 3 kids up & down mountains by foot then bike easier to do without. My drinking comes in the form of coffee houses these days.