March 14, 2024 at 1:38 pm

Airbnb Customer Shows How Insane The Fees Are These Days. – ‘Now I’m going from $172 to $972. It’s crazy.’

by Matthew Gilligan

Source: TikTok/@jsmartinlive

These Airbnb fees are completely out of control!

The last time I booked an Airbnb, the cleaning fee was $130 for a two-day stay.

Huh?

Yeah, it’s frustrating…

And the guy you’re about to meet posted a video on TikTok and put Airbnb on blast for what property owners are allowed to get away with on the website as far as charging guests all kinds of fees.

His name is Jesse and he said, “You wanna know why we’re going back to hotels? Because of this. $172 a reasonable, cool, $344 for 2 nights, that makes sense” he said as he showed a screenshot of an Airbnb booking.

Source: TikTok/@jsmartinlive

He continued, “Taxes, $95 ehh, not rockin’ but $108 service fee? Okay. $425 host fee? What you doing? You telling jokes or something, what, what you mean, host fee?”

Jesse asked, “Am I getting paying you to get me entertainment? Like that’s crazy what you need $400 for? You about to clean the place while I’m there?”

He then added, “I go to a hotel, they’re gonna make my bed, they’re gonna give me free soap, free lotion, what am I getting here, huh?”

That’s true…

Source: TikTok/@jsmartinlive

Jesse continued, “Then you’re gonna charge me even more money for a cleaning fee after it. It’s getting ridiculous. I can go to a hotel and have somebody at the front desk and everything just waiting on me.”

He ended the video by saying, “Look at this. Now I’m going from $172 to $972. It’s crazy.”

That’s wild!

Source: TikTok/@jsmartinlive

Check out his video.

@jsmartinlive

#greenscreen Airbnbs are robbing us now, used to be an affordable option #airbnb #broke #fyp #inflation #genz #millennial

♬ original sound – Jesse Martin

Now let’s see how folks reacted.

One person said Airbnb has really changed.

Source: TikTok/@jsmartinlive

Another TikTokker only stays in hotels.

Source: TikTok/@jsmartinlive

And this person shared a weird story…

Source: TikTok/@jsmartinlive

That’s insane!

Now that you’ve read that story, check out this one about a delivery driver who took a $400 grocery order back because she wasn’t given a tip.