Air Bnb has ruined my life

Have you chatted to the other residents?

Some reasonably cheap measures that hotels use to reduce this sort of noise are:
carpet stairwells and corridors
hang curtains, pictures etc In stairwells and corridors
have slow closers on doors
have rubber door stops on doors
have pads on the bottom of any furniture being regularly moved
have signs in the outside the front of the entrance requesting quiet between certain times
have signs requesting people to carry not draf luggage

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 how to tell me without telling me...

It seems a shame to disrupt your lives for 25% of the year.
I’d be trying hypnosis or other anxiety techniques to try to change my mindset. It is only for three months of the year.

Ah, and there’s the rub… a huge, faceless corporation can never be blamed. Well, actually, yes, they can. Airbnb’s business model has absolutely been strategically designed to encourage the buying-up of homes for the express intention of deriving profit.

Fucks sake, there's always one isn't there?
Get your pencil out and do some sums. Start with the total number of hotels in the UK and go from there. 🙄

It's not airbnb or the people that use them that are the issue here.. it's your government and how it regulates the usage of property!! If it wasn't airbnb it would be slum landlording.
You need to appeal to the government to do more to prevent landlords buying up multiple properties in one area just to rent out. Especially if they aren't even living in that area or ij fact the same country themselves!!
Airbnb can actually be wonderful and far better than hotels.. when it's regulated properly.
I'm staying in central London this summer with my whole family in a beautiful house that is clearly someone's family home. All their belongings are still there. They just rent it out whilst they go on holiday during the summer to make a bit of extra cash
It's fantastic because we would never be able to afford to stay in central London if it wasn't for airbnbs like this. And also hotels are awful for a large family.. you are either cramped into one large room or have to fork out loads of money for multiple rooms etc..
So airbnb is a wonderful way for us to get to travel. We always use it.
But you need to look for legitimate ones that are people actually renting out parts of a property they clearly use and own. A spare room in someone's house, an annexe, a family home that is vacant for a while, even a clearly well loved holiday home...
Because often you will get slum landlords buying up entire buildings to rent out by the room. This clearly should be illegal but some places don't clamp down on it.
It's to do with what regulations the local government has in place.
Even outside of airbnb it's still an issue.. if airbnb didn't exist they'd still be doing it. It's an issue that has got worse over time as tourism has increased.

I asked if you were Spanish because if you are an British ex pat you are adding to the problem.

… and how far is Jen & Bob’s cleaner having to travel to undertake that minimum wage cleaning gig? Because I can almost guarantee you it’s not a hop and a skip from their own front door.

Conversely a friend of ours booked an Air BNB in a town they didn't know well. Flat was quite well decorated and quite nice. Only thing was it was in a council high rise building with pee smelling lifts.

I couldn't agree more. It's all about the personal desires being put above any other consideration. You can get something cheap? Never mind who that impacts.
This really hit home to me when I saw some Spanish people being interviewed and heard about the terrible impact of AB&,B on their life chances.

Jen and Bob also have to pay someone to clean and change bedlinen.

Airbnbs are very expensive now due to the 15% or so service charge (it used to be a fraction of that) so hotels are often the same price.

You’re conflating the cost of hotels with the housing crisis that’s been caused, in part, in many communities by companies like Airbnb.

The cost of staying in a hotel is what it is - it’s not driven by hotels being greedy or purposely choosing to be more expensive than an Airbnb stay.

The problem is that the exponential growth of individuals and commercial enterprise buying up HOUSING (because that’s what it absolutely is) and turning it into holiday or short-term let accommodation has contributed to people having to leave areas where they have jobs, family and support networks. It also means that local employers aren’t able to recruit locally and businesses suffering because the revenue generated by Airbnb and other ‘homes-as-holiday-let’ businesses doesn’t come back into the local economy.

We ALL have a part to play in considering how tourism is contributing to housing inequality - as well as ecology, local resources and lots of other issues. But, from everything I see and hear related to tourism and holidaymaking, very, VERY few us actually do.

Honestly I think air b&b should be banned. If you want to go on holiday, then pay the hotels or bed and breakfast places and leave others to live in peace. i have never rented one nor would I.

Plus, they pay taxes. I really hate this modern feeling of entitlement, that everybody deserves a fabulous holiday with a bedroom each and a nice cosy sitting room - and so what if that means they're making life intolerable for other people. What happened to people who couldn't afford / didn't want hotels going camping, or to a caravan park? Two weeks overseas in a big villa with a private pool is not a human right, ffs.

Ah, nice one. Get the dig in about "immigrants'. You'll be glad to hear that the OP is not in the UK so your Faragesque opinion is not relevant.

Airbnb is just a platform. It’s like being annoyed at EBay.

Is part of the problem an increase of tourism overall in line with an increasing population.

Overall there is just a shortage of property full stop and it’s ever more expensive to buy or rent.

I wonder what country you live in. In UK, Scotland anyway, there are regs relating to late night noise etc. Does your city have some such regs relating to Airbnb? Basically, as others have suggested, you should think of moving even though it might be tricky.

Also, on a practical level, invest in a really good pair of earplugs, put a heavy rug or curtain at your front door etc.for sound proofing....

I can only imagine your pain . We are on holiday in an Airbnb it’s on a complex but not only holiday I don’t think . Most villas are full of families with associated noise but it’s on and off but reasonable ( I’d be able to live here !) but one property was let go an all male group who partied hard ( music so loud we couldn’t here our tv and could hear through mouse cancelling headphones) for 4 days ( 10 am- 3am ) any request to be quieter resulted in increased noise .
nearly broke me so can’t imagine how you feel .

we use apartments and villas due to family size and make up and the fact I hate pdolle around me . I do always try to be considerate and live as I would at home. I can see the argument against Airbnb though

I have stayed in a couple of places like that in Brittany! Some of the furniture and ornaments had to be seen to be believed.

OP I do think the spanish government are going to have to take some kind of action around airbnb. It’s tough though in holiday resorts where there is very little year round rental.

You’re still contributing to a housing crisis. Doesn’t really matter if you don’t shriek in the garden.