<story><title>Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight</title><url>https://press.airbnb.com/airbnb-signs-agreement-to-acquire-hoteltonight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stef25</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s amazing at Airbnb is their ability to make places look so much nicer in the pictures than what they look like in reality.&lt;p&gt;After staying in a crack house in Barcelona, a dirty dark hole in Manhattan, a &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; villa in France where the owner was screwing an endless stream of boyfriends behind the flimsy kitchen door at 10AM, a thermite infested apartment in Sicily with horrid beds, I still feel like a total asshole when leaving a negative review. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why I keep going back to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hombre_fatal</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t stand the review inflation. You&amp;#x27;re totally disincentivized from leaving an honest review because of the counter review or because you somehow feel like the dick, and I&amp;#x27;m sure AirBnB loves it.&lt;p&gt;A place that turns out to be right on the noisy highway won&amp;#x27;t have a single review that points this out. Only &amp;quot;great for early risers!&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight</title><url>https://press.airbnb.com/airbnb-signs-agreement-to-acquire-hoteltonight/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stef25</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s amazing at Airbnb is their ability to make places look so much nicer in the pictures than what they look like in reality.&lt;p&gt;After staying in a crack house in Barcelona, a dirty dark hole in Manhattan, a &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; villa in France where the owner was screwing an endless stream of boyfriends behind the flimsy kitchen door at 10AM, a thermite infested apartment in Sicily with horrid beds, I still feel like a total asshole when leaving a negative review. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why I keep going back to it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>shereadsthenews</author><text>It really seems to depend on the city. For about $100&amp;#x2F;night in Zurich I stayed once in a huge top floor flat and once in a bedroom with private bath in a giant palace with plenty of room to entertain dozens, which I did. My company&amp;#x27;s negotiated hotel rate was $425&amp;#x2F;night and I pocketed the balance.&lt;p&gt;In NYC all of the Airbnb inventory is bedbug-ridden hovels. Perhaps this simply reflects the housing stock of the region.</text></comment>