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    2 months ago

    In america: Nearly every Airbnb I’ve stayed in the last five years had chore lists. My wife still defaults the Airbnbs as Hotels often don’t have kitchenettes.

    Chores can be as small as ensuring trash is brought to a outdoor trash area and dirty dishes in the dishwasher. Nothing too insane. Nothing I wouldn’t do for a hotel.

    One involved me putting away everything I used. That made sense. They had board games, and lots of kitchen appliances. Again nothing I wouldn’t have done by default.

    The most outrageous one wanted us to wash the bedding we slept on, get new bedding from the closet and reset it for the next guests, as well as mop the floor. This one pisses me off and I complained to Airbnb because I was paying an extortion of a cleaning fee already. Airbnb refunded me that cleaning fee but I’m already furious at the greed of it all.