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B&B USA
Hello, I am a proud owner and operator of a B&B in the Southeastern part of the United States. I have experienced just about every wonderful guest and more nightmares than most of you will ever have. I cannot say that one platform is better than another when it comes to bad guests, but I appreciate that with booking I can control my own processing. I wish booking would let us write our own descriptions.
I used a computer score average and it comes out to 9.05 So, what is up?
They need to get off of us. They are nothing more than then the yellow pages phone book. We pay them to advertise on their site. NOT to control our business. We need to step up and control our brands.
Yeah it is called we don't understand English and we don't give a rip because you are just a little guy. Booking wants our business and our money but does not protect or serve us. It is time to build your own brand. Stop depending on this new version of back stabbing yellow pages. Think about it. This year I have spent thousands with booking, but it is not enough to garner respect.
They favor hotels but want the coins from the bnb's and they attempt to control us like dogs because they think we will take it, but we will NOT take it. We will build our brands on google, facebook, instagram and twitter and then we will NOT pay their fees we will keep the money we pay them to make our businesses look like crap. OH yes I did just say that. I am sure they will alter this. No freedom.
There are loads of forums outside of this one that are teaching hosts how to go direct. With booking and ABB taking to much control of our business and profits we are learning. It is to much regulation when we are PAYING you to advertise on your site. Get a clue. We are learning to leave you and google will help us. It is called hotels nearby. Snap or suffer.
Do you own a property?
Not true. ABB was using this stupid method long before booking adopted it and if you go on any airbnb facebook forum you will see no owner likes it. A guest can give 5 stars in every category and then they are asked for overall with a silly caviot of did your host do something exceptional or unexpected. Not did you get what you paid for which is the thing. Us hosts left Airbnb because of this. I don't like ABB anymore. I was happy here, but now booking wants to be like ABB and they suck. Shoot loads of people on booking don't even know about them. This was an advantage, but now booking charges us for cleaning fees which ABB never did and NOW they have tacked on the ABB final score *** I guess I should go back to ABB. I expected better of booking because they seemed smarter, but now I know different. They just did not catch up to stupid yet. Silly Corporations. Booking needs to remember that they are just the yellow pages of hotel reservations. Quit with the fancy dumb ass ideas and stick to the basics. We pay you to list our properties NOT control our businesses. End of Story.
Totally agree. Lets keep it simple. It is the K.I.S.S method. Keep it simple stupid.