Popular hotel alternative Airbnb formerly canceled bookings Tuesday for a group that planned to attend a rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. Airbnb told event coordinator Jason Kessler that the group violated the company’s community standards, which requires that all members “accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, or age.”
Source: Airbnb Cancels Bookings In Rally | The Daily Caller
And they probably have the right to do so and few people will side with nazi Assholes.
But that is not the point. What if you made a reservation and have already spend other monies for travel expenses, taken time off to be with your family and somebody in Airbnb checks your Facebook and/or Twitter accounts, finds something “offensive” and cancels your reservation when you and yours are already on travel? You are out of luck, you will have no place to stay and zero recourse.
Hotels can’t do that, and if they can get you a room, they will probably find you another similar hotel nearby and even get you a reduced rate. But you are dealing with professionals and they do not come cheap. And they understand that bonehead maneuvers like the one Airbnb pulled can cost them 20-30% of their clientele.
That is why you will not see me in Ubel, Lyft, Airbnb or any of that crap. It s just Hipster SJW Craiglist with an app.
And you know how well that usually ends.
Miguel, I know it’s not your mistake, but when I read, “Popular hotel alternative Airbnb formerly canceled bookings Tuesday for a group that planned to attend a rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. “, I got stuck. My brain said, “Formerly cancelled? As in cancelled some time ago? But that doesn’t agree with the tone… What? ” It took a minute for me to realize they meant “formally canceled” as in “officially cancelled”.
Back to the post, I had never used any of those services until early June. My kids set up a joint vacation trip and took us out to Mt.Rushmore in South Dakota. They reserved a place through AirBNB, which they had never used. I will not be using that service again, myself. The place was reasonably priced and in a nice location, but the big guys are much nicer to stay with. Fewer arbitrary rules, as well as much more professional about security and such.