Biden announces plan to cut down on ‘junk fees’

Just click on review and pay. It will breakdown the final cost and show all fees before you book. I mean do you really need big govt to help you with booking a VRBO?

 

Most Airbnb are not apples to apples with Marriott though. Mostly VRBO and Airbnb are for larger homes and condos while hotels are rarely larger or more private. There’s a reason the former is pricier than the latter.

 

Cleaning fee is often higher and also helpful to owners to pay for small damages that do and eventually will occur. We pay our cleaner 175.00 btw, per cleaning.

 

When I saw this ……. my first thought was how much we all could save/retain in “junk fees and taxes” if federal, state, and local governments would eliminate their wasteful ways.

 

Lol. Defensive much? Sorry I'm not worthy of staying in your Air BnB fraternity.

 

I’ll be glad to have Biden keep his big nose out of the private sector.

 

It's one of those things the market will correct itself. Ultimately, if certain things become too expensive, consumers will stop buying. Especially when we're talking about recreational, leisure and luxury type items.

 

Airbnb just announced a major change to how pricing is displayed to make it "more transparent" than the prior system. They also just announced restrictions on what can be demanded by hosts as part of checkouts. Good move on their part.

 

Yeah AirBnb is actually a good example of the market working out the issue, at least in terms of partition pricing (dividing the total price up to multiple separate prices that add together for the total price) and price presentation as it relates to transparency. To tie it back to the thread, I'd be okay with government ignoring a lot of partition pricing and only focusing on drip pricing (where businesses slowly show up with new fees over time after you begin usage of a product) for regulation.