Airbnb has more properties, but Vrbo is more customizable. We'll help you decide which hotel alternative is best for your trip. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a ...

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Mark Donohue can’t use his Airbnb account anymore. But the company won’t tell him why he’s been kicked off the site. Q: Airbnb kicked me off the site, and it won’t tell me why. All of my emails and ...

"Read my lips: We want to pay taxes,” Chris Lehane, Airbnb’s global head of public policy, told the nation’s mayors in 2016. In the years since, the home-sharing site has repeated the declaration in ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Admitting that “Airbnb is still not for everyone,” CEO Brian Chesky on Thursday told a cheering crowd of hosts that new categories on its site, some of which more closely mirror its ...

Starting today, when Portland Airbnb hosts login to their account, they'll be presented with two options: Input a number associated with their city permit to operate a short-term rental—or apply for ...

Airbnb's website experienced problems on Friday, beginning around 12:15 p.m. EST when users were unable to access their accounts, look at reservations and respond to guests. The website Down Detector ...

Revenge of the computer nerd. A techie entrepreneur whose Chelsea pad was trashed after he rented it on Airbnb and it was used to host an orgy has launched a website to help landlords crack down on ...

DEAR TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER: Airbnb kicked me off the site, and it won’t tell me why. All of my emails and requests for an explanation have been answered with a canned response. Airbnb says it’s sorry, ...