hey guys how's it going it's jewel
talentino here alright so in this video
I'm gonna be doing a first-time review
of air B&B alright so if you guys are
just here for the air B&B promo code
head down to the description below as I
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guys will get $45 off your next booking
and then will get $20 off so we all get
to share the love so this is gonna be my
honest and unbiased review of the air
B&B service alright so it was my very
first time using air B&B this past
summer was the first time I used it we
used it in Vancouver Island when we went
down to the horn lake caves and then we
used it again in Portland Oregon and
then again in downtown Vancouver so I've
used Airbnb three times now and I'm
going to be using it again in Scottsdale
Arizona and in Bermuda in the 2018 year
alright so for this video I'm gonna go
pro and then I'm gonna go con and then
I'm gonna go back and forth and and sort
of lay out the pros and the cons alright
so first off first pro that I thought
was it's generally cheaper than if you
were to get a hotel now it really
depends on if you're getting a room or
an entire house because I booked hotels
all the time for when we travel for
business and comparing those rates to
what you get when you could potentially
book a home you can book a home
basically for the same rate as you would
get a tiny room in a regular hotel so to
me it seems cheaper for what you get now
a con is if you're used to staying in
hotels you're not gonna get any of those
amenities such as regular room service
so like when they clean your room
regular cleaning you know when they
clean your room in the morning when you
go out for the day they remake your bed
they clean up the washroom rearrange
things you also don't have access to if
they have room service like if you can
order in your room and
you get food delivered a shuttle service
like if they have a free shuttle to go
into town into downtown and or if they
have a pool or gym you you won't have
access to those in an air B&B generally
Pro is that air B&B is great for groups
like if you're staying with a big group
it really helps air B&B it really helps
to have air B&B to use that as a service
because when you are traveling in groups
that are like four or more you generally
have to book more hotel rooms so like
two three four hotel rooms if you're in
a big group but with Airbnb you can get
an entire house and all share it
together which kind of makes it more fun
too that's what's gonna be happening in
Scottsdale Arizona and Bermuda for us
there's gonna be 10 plus people so we're
gonna definitely be using Airbnb instead
of hotels so that's a pro for Airbnb con
is that every place is different and
they have House Rules
so you're staying in someone's place
right so they each have their own rules
for example the house that we stayed in
on Vancouver Island you are not allowed
to wear bare feet in the house that was
one of the rules and you when you had
garbage that filled up in the kitchen
you needed to take it out to the garage
and separate some of the garbage from
recycling and waste so each place is
different some places have more lenient
rules some have more strict it really
all depends but there are house rules in
a hotel you can kind of just be like
whatever like you can leave it messy and
check out and you won't get dinged for
it or get a bad review for it a pro for
Airbnb is that if you get a place that
has these facilities and in our case we
only rent full houses
I don't really rent a room that's
attached to someone else's house I will
rent the entire house for us you can do
cooking and your laundry like you can go
and buy groceries and make like a whole
meal because
the houses will provide like the cooking
where so you can use the pots and pans
blenders ovens that is a real benefit
you know if you want to save on going
out to dinner and you have a big group
and you want to just cook for everybody
it's like you're living in a house and
you're using their kitchen you can also
do things like laundry you don't have to
use the hotel service or not do laundry
at all a con for Airbnb is that
sometimes it's annoying to book a
specific place now it really depends on
the type of place that you're booking
but some hosts are very strict and they
they screen all the people that want to
book their place so some places you can
just go and book it immediately and you
don't need to say anything about
yourself but some places you need to
provide the photo ID you need to write a
little bit about yourself need to say
why you want to stay in this place and I
get it from their point of view they
don't want someone who's gonna trash
their place and mess it up so they want
to see if you're gonna be a person that
follows the rules and doesn't mess up
their home so for example a place that
we want to stay in in downtown Vancouver
they actually had to check out our
Facebook and we had to give them
government ID and they were like wanting
to know why we wanted to stay there and
so we had to be a little bit more
involved with explaining like why we
wanted to rent this place whereas at a
hotel it doesn't matter really who you
are you just have a credit card and you
booked it and it doesn't matter who you
are you can be the messiest person and
trash the place as long as you have
internet and you have a credit card you
can book the hotel room so an Airbnb
there's a little bit more of a screening
process so pro for Airbnb is that you
can really get a place that meets your
needs there's so many specifications
that you can choose from so if you don't
want an entire house you don't have to
get one you can just get a room you can
get the entire house with a pool with
amenities and it's close to here and
it's close to there there's definitely
more location range than if you were to
get hotels because hotels are you
usually in main cities and they're
generally not in suburb areas for
example in Vancouver Island we wanted to
do the horn lake caves experience and it
was kind of out in the wilderness and
there wasn't really hotels around that
area but we managed to find an air B&B
that was literally a couple minutes away
so that was really convenient for us now
a cone for air B&B is that if you have
something go wrong let's say and where
you're staying maybe the waters not
working or the toilet is broken it
exploded or some things like something's
not working it may not get fixed right
away because some hosts don't even live
in the same city that you're booking in
they may have to get someone else
whereas if you were in a hotel room and
let's say you know we were saying in a
hotel room in Whistler and we were
saying it was like way too hot they
immediately brought up more fans or we
needed more this or that blankets
whatever they immediately brought it up
if we say that the toilets broken they
will get send someone over to fix it for
us right away or they'll move us to a
different room so that is another con is
that if something happens you might not
be able to get it fixed right away for
the most part we never had any issues
like that I mean there was some times we
were like oh where is this and then they
would respond right away that type of
thing but we never had an issue like
that but it is something to think about
because we've had issues before in hotel
rooms were like the toilets not working
or there's no hot water and then they
have to send someone up to fix it oh and
another pro that I forgot to mention is
like the whole payment thing so when you
go to a hotel
you have to check in you have to do the
whole check-in process and you have to
you know get your credit card out to
fill out some forms sign some things
with Airbnb you don't have to do that
everything is all taken care of online
you pretty much just check in with the
instructions that they give you so each
location each Airbnb place is different
on how they will provide you
instructions on how to get into the
place
for example the one in Vancouver Island
was a PIN pad so they didn't have like a
key or anything you just had to go and
punch in a PIN pad code that they gave
you a couple days before you leave for
your trip no they'll say okay you know
you're gonna be checking in soon this is
the PIN pad the entrance is located here
that type of thing
for the one in Vancouver they have this
whole process where you need to tell
them what time you're gonna be checking
in so let's say youth you knew you're
gonna be arriving between 1:00 and 3:00
p.m. they would actually be leaving the
door unlocked for you between that times
the housekeeper would leave the door
unlocked between 1:00 and 3:00 so that
you could get in so those are a little
bit of the pros and cons for both now do
I prefer staying in an Airbnb versus a
hotel it really depends on the situation
so for me it depends on the first thing
is how many people are going if there is
four or more people I'm generally gonna
want to get an Airbnb because if there's
four people we want more space
potentially more washrooms and it's
gonna save on the cost of things cuz
Airbnb I find is cheaper generally and
if there's more of us maybe you know we
don't want to eat out all the time so we
want to cook because it's gonna be more
fun or something and maybe we won like a
big couch to watch movies together that
type of thing that I would choose an
Airbnb now let's say if I was going to a
business convention and I the convention
was in downtown and I needed to be there
in the morning and it was just me and
reek going for business then maybe I
would choose a hotel that is directly
close to the convention so it really
depends on the type of event that's
happening the location what you're going
to be doing for instance in Scottsdale
Arizona when we go there for my sister's
bachelorette we are going to be renting
a mansion on Airbnb and you know it's
going to be in the suburb area and we
are cool with just staying
they're at this mansion having fun you
know just partying over there instead of
getting hotel rooms like three different
hotel rooms and then trying to fit
everyone in one hotel room we'd rather
do it on Airbnb
so do I prefer Airbnb over hotel again
it depends on the situation but I do
like Airbnb it's just different and I
like how you can stay at really cool
places because generally hotel rooms are
pretty much the same I like the variety
that you get on Airbnb so here are a
couple of tips if you haven't booked an
Airbnb and you're thinking about it you
want to make sure that you read the
reviews read what people have said and
make sure you actually book a place that
has reviews because if it doesn't have
reviews at all you don't know what
you're getting into and it might be kind
of scary if you haven't done Airbnb
before so make sure you go through the
reviews and read a bunch of them and see
what people are saying like if they're
commenting on okay it's actually a clean
place the everything works it's as
described no one was lying or anything
and you also want to make sure that the
place has really good pictures sometimes
you know they take really crappy
pictures and the place doesn't look very
appealing you want someone who takes
effort into their listing you want to
host that does effort into making their
place look nice for you to stay up
because you don't want to stay in a
crappy looking place so overall I've had
a good experience with Airbnb and I do
suggest it if you guys are wanting to
try it out again if you want to check it
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Airbnb booking so that is pretty much
the tips that I have for you guys if you
are thinking about getting your first
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