@Brad580
1. Travel insurance, guests can and maybe should protect themselves ...I know it’s a novel idea or maybe it shouldn’t exist if everyone just magically expects 100% refunds when something bad happens... even when that spans months of reservations ..
2. air B and B are a large multi million dollar company, hosts are saying they should share some of the pain...is that bad? most hosts I’ve read have agreed with refunds for the month of March to April . But Going forward in your 3 way scenario ... your solution is only with 1 party., the hosts ... what business scenario folllows such a model? None, as it’s impossible to operate and you know it...Not very constructive.
3. Glad you didn’t bring up anything about a big multi million dollar company having no “interruption of service” or catastrophe type insurance... ye let’s leave that to the hosts ...as the guests nor air B and B are going to have any responsibility ... zero.
4 have you not read any of the posts from hosts offering refunds beyond their refund policy? You say it’s unfair for guests not to get 100% and basically hosts are being greedy... are the guests not similar ... looking for full refunds , are guests not requesting money, all of it too , wow that’s being considerate, without any willingness to be fair?
5 vouchers or credits for future stays with some refund combination going back to hosts would be fair to all sides. A high % of hosts have offered this as a solution or maybe I’m reading the wrong threads.
6 air B and B can line up for their portion of the $500 billion dollar bailout to corporations ... stop refunding in full and share the pain once these funds are collected for free from the US taxpayers.
If they continue to issue full refunds how will they be in line to get any rescue package ... they haven’t lost out except their service fee which as a relatively small % of the overall losses.
7 the bailout/rescue package wants businesses to keep their employees on the books rather than layoff everyone ..air B and B are basically laying off all hosts with 0 income from that... they should implement a more rational , fair policy that gets guests their refund without destroying hosts .
8 I take offense to your insinuations that hosts are just after the money ... really that’s like having lost your job , then being denied any assistance and then insulting them when they are struggling to recover from the lost income for months to come, with bills to pay and sometimes others such as cleaners who were also relying on that income. And at the same time not mentioning the responsibility of the big employer in the situation.