I actually could not find any clear information on the new scale of service fee payments from the side of us hosting. I only heard from other users of this platform that airbnb is now also charging the hosts by 16% which I find an incredible rise to what it used to be. Very very unfortunate, because before the fact that airbnb didnot charge the hosts very high has been the big adavantage against other platforms. This is really are pity and makes me reconsider whether to use airbnb in future alltogether. Fortunately I do have a number of returning clients who don't need to use any internet platform. To me it actually feels like a rip-off - to charge both sides - the hosts and the guests so highly and thereby making prices rise or having to lower our prices / income. No good news at all after or during these anyhow difficult times.
However, what I find most irritating is the fact, that I have never been clearly informed about this change and I tried to find the information in the huge amount of information given by airbnb (help center etc.) but could not find it anywhere. This means, I still haven't seen it black on white, but heard it just by word say. I don't know, how other clients found out about the new payment policy (I don't even know how knew it is??), but I feel cheated as a client, who has been using airbnb for many years and this is definetly the opposite of transperency, sorry to say.