6mo ago

"2 bedroom" AirBnB.

www.airbnb.com /rooms/1116644897673581443

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There's a bed in the main area and one in the roof compartment. That technically makes 2 bedrooms.
- It was just a tiny mixup. It's a "two-bed room".
2 bedrooms. 1 bed.
What's infuriating about this? Maybe I'm biased because I've seriously considered van life before, but a couple nights in a camper on the beach seems like a fun novelty trip.
- The total lack of bedrooms, for one...
  
  What else would you call a closed space with a deliberate, designed space for a bed?
- It's not an actual bedroom, is it?
  Then again, the pictures clearly show it, so...
  Any alternative to this site that's more in line with privacy/foss/fediverse etc? CouchSurfing's gone to shit, used to be great.
  
  There are two spaces to sleep, the main bed and the loft. How else would you communicate that information on the site?
- IMO maybe the $140 price tag for a single night.
  
  It was $60 when I looked
"3 guests"
Could you imagine going on vacation and being the 3rd wheel while staying in accommodations such as this? Where do they sleep, at the foot of the single bed?
- It's a bunk bed like scenario, I can imagine sending a kid up there to sleep, maybe.
I still remember the couch surfing predecessor of this stuff before this corporate garbage. No idea why anyone would do this.
When you buy a hotel room, don't you vet the room to make sure it's what you want? Same applies here. If you contact them I'm sure they'd happily explain the accommodations. If not, give them a bad review and move on.
- I think the accommodations are clear. It's a van. But they have decided it's a van with two bedrooms rather than a van with two beds. Not even close to the same thing.
  
  Having never used the air B&B app or website I don't know if there is an option that differentiates the two.

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