Comment by mholt

I'm worried this ban will only affect honest hosts.

Anyway, what Airbnb should really ban is hosts charging a mandatory cleaning fee when also requiring their guests to do the cleaning.

We just stayed at one this weekend, and like almost all our previous bookings, the host asked us to:

- Take off all bedding and towels and start a load of laundry

- Do all the dishes and start the dishwasher (but required to hand-wash some items)

- Collect and take out all the trash to the curb

- Clean the grill/stove/oven

And we still had to pay a $200 cleaning fee when booking the place. A hotel would never require this of us or charge us extra.