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I prefer hotels or apart hotels too.

I've never had a perfect-five-star Airbnb experience either, but all my reviews have been very positive.

Airbnb guests and hosts need to get good reviews so there is an incentive to give better than real reviews in both ways.

One of the best ways to read reviews is looking for what reviews don't mention. Like no reviews mentioning the place is quiet or clean or having comfortable beds.

I would say I've had better experiences at Airbnbs attended by the property owner (like people who rent their extra room), than those attended by a co host or a subletting company. These are easier to find in non touristic destinations.

There's those that "game" the pictures so it looks nice and colorful, but have bad quality furniture and cheap dollar store everything. Those are better to avoid