Hi,
My name is Sylvie and I'm a host in London. We offer two rooms in our house for families; a large double and a small room for children. It works very well and we are booked up all year. Now here's the problem. The listing categories are: Shared Room, Private Room or Entire Home/Flat. What we offer isn't any of these, we offer a Homestay Bed & Breakfast - two rooms at a time. So how do we list it? Well, if we put Shared, no one is interested. If we put Private, no one is interested. If we clasify it as Entire Home/Flat then it works well for us, but we always have to point out to our guests that the guests share the house with my husband and me and although they have access to most parts of the house, we don't allow them to use the kitchen for cooking. We do however provide Bed & Breakfast. Does this sound familiar to some of you?
Now here's the problem! If we stay with our listing as "Entire Home/Flat " then we are subject to the 90 day rule. So that means we will have to change it to "Shared" or "Private", which as I said, doesn't work. The way round this is to have a 4th category which is "Homestay" where the guests stay with the hosts (B&B) which isn't subject to the 90 day rule - easy!!!!
So, one and all, please try to lobby Airbnb if this additional category would suit you too, either by calling them:
United States +1-415-800-5959 +1-855-424-7262 (toll-free)
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UK | 0870 183 0620 |
Or writing on this "conversation" agreeing we need a new category and hoping Airbnb will take note. If they don't then we and them are going to lose a lot of business!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!