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penguinz0 asks what an Airbnb cleaning fee pays for if guests clean

A host couple's complaint about the new checkout rules, and her reluctance to touch used sheets, becomes the center of his argument for hotels.

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Airbnb Changes Leaves Hosts Angry

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0:00penguinz0 explains he rarely leaves Florida and switched to hotels after losing faith in Airbnb's value.
1:49The news: a headline says hosts can no longer ask guests to clean dishes or make beds.
3:17A host couple's TikTok complains about losing chores like dishwashing and taking out trash.
6:21The host says she doesn't want to touch sheets; he asks why charge a cleaning fee then.
8:35His comparison: hotels cost similar money and never ask guests to do checkout chores.
11:04Reddit hosts react via Dolan Darkest, including one who treats rentals as an art showcase and later deletes the account.

"Airbnb Changes Leaves Hosts Angry" is penguinz0's take on a travel annoyance plenty of people know: paying a cleaning fee, then being handed a checklist of chores before leaving. It drew roughly 1.9 million views since yesterday, a subject that reaches well beyond the internet drama his channel often covers.

He starts with himself. "I'm not a big traveler. I don't often leave Florida," he says, and when he does, he no longer books Airbnbs: "I stopped doing Airbnbs because I stopped seeing the value in it." Then comes the news that set the video off, a headline reporting that hosts can no longer ask guests to wash dishes, do laundry or make beds.

The core of the video is a TikTok from a host couple objecting to the change. They explain that waiting for the dishwasher slows their turnover, and that trash left behind "smells so bad." Then one of them says, "I don't want to be touching people's sheets." That is the line penguinz0 seizes on: "Then how can you have the gall to charge a cleaning fee when you're requiring all of your guests to do all of the cleaning for you?" His case is simple. "Hotels are better value," he says, and they don't send you off with a to-do list.

The last stretch borrows from fellow creator Dolan Darkest's "The Airbnb Meltdown," which collects Reddit reactions. One host announces a higher cleaning fee. Another describes running rentals as a hobby for showing off art and keeping millennials out of real estate. penguinz0 has fun with the idea of a vacation rental run like an art museum, and notes that the poster later deleted the comments and the account.

The comment section came in about half again busier than his usual first day, much of it from viewers swapping their own checkout lists, and many pointing out that housekeepers solve the sheets problem with gloves.

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What viewers say

"Eww! I don't want to touch your sheets". Yeah, this is why a lot of housekeepers wear gloves. You can too!
@manfrombc5162See it on YouTube
"I'm not in the hospitality industry"

I have some news for you.
@JempaiSee it on YouTube
"There's so many reasons you pay a cleaning fee"
Doesn't even say one.
@WontReadYourRepliesSee it on YouTube

6 more comments

$200 cleaning fee and I have to do the dishes, strip the bed, start a load of towels. Good riddance
@ClarifiedWaterSee it on YouTube
They were literally pocketing most of the cleaning fees while the guests did all the work.
@GrandTheftJoeSee it on YouTube
airbnb pushed me to start staying in hotels purely because of the nonsense each owner thinks is kosher
@magilla8026See it on YouTube
If you are rich enough to own an Airbnb, then you are rich enough to just hire a cleaning company if you don’t want to do it yourself.
@riddleboxxSee it on YouTube
Probably worth remembering that AirBnB aren't making this change just to be nice. They're making this change because the combination of cleaning fees and being forced to clean anyway is pissing off customers so much that it's making people abandon the platform and go back to hotels. In other words, the behaviour of the hosts is making AirBnB lose money.
@HippoOnABicycleSee it on YouTube
“Guess I’ll raise my cleaning fee…”

Guess I won’t use your Airbnb
@Kgqi-m3iSee it on YouTube