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Since the beginning of this year I have only had about 13 bookings via AirBnB when the most of my bookings used to come from them. I am averaging about 20 days/month occupancy with the rest of the days coming from BDC so my revenue stream remains profitable.
I have no idea why since if I had a choice I prefer AirBnB. This is because (probably already disussed before)
they pay you the day after. BDC in my part of world only pays me the following month for all bookings the previous month
BDC charges me more - AirBnB charges the client but I understand that might change
I canāt review guests, reject them nor look at their history
I hate BDC, the guests are terrible, leave shitty reviews, and one stole from me.
AND they also charge you for payouts, which is rude as they take a month to send the money.
You canāt review guests so there is no incentive for them to behave well.
the whole site is set up for hotels (and actually as a traveller thatās when I use it), not unique farm accommodation
Iām glad you are able to fill in the gaps with them, but I hope I donāt have to resort to that too. for now we are doing fine, although this past week was super slow.
I must be lucky or itās my property but I have never had a bad guest and bad review. The worso so far was a guest who spilled red wine on my brand new carpet but 1) it cleaned out completely using a commercial cleaning company and 2) guest offered to pay all charges with hesitation. I have an apartment in a building that has lots of STR apartments so that might influence the type of guests I get.
after my 2 awful guests Iām of the opinion that many bdc guests have bad reviews on ABB.
one of mine was a 3rd party booking, sheād been gifted the night, hadnāt read the listing, and then complained about things missing that werenāt ever offered as part of the listing, in a review that she was allowed to write even as a third party guest. Also, she was rude and awful, Iāve never had guests like that via abb.
the other 4 guests were non-communicative and gave us low scores on silly things like ācheck-inā and āstaffā. We are on a farm, the point is to relax, we have self-checkin and we leave people alone. Iād had enough after 6 experiences and cancelled my contract with bdc.
I would prefer AirBnB but I have no choice. My occupancy (pretty much all BDC) is at my target level of about 20 days/month from November through to Feb and March only needs a few days to reach that level. So I canāt complain I guess
We probably just donāt hear from the highly satisfied, lol. Iāve had good luck over ten years. Bad ratings have only been about stupid things that I canāt control like traffic noise. Weāve made some great friends.