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by powersjcb 721 days ago
They certainly made it impossible to plan a trip to NYC with more than 2 people if that's what they were aiming for.

I had previously been planning yearly trips to visit NYC with friends. For the last 3 years with Airbnb and I was booking 2-4 bedroom places for between 3-6 people. The cost per person per night jumped from ~$75-150 to $150-250 depending on the week. :-O
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amelius 721 days ago
That was not the question.
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toastercat 721 days ago
That sounds more expensive, but not impossible. Frankly, that's how much I used to pay for a room in Manhattan before AirBnB existed. I chalked it up as the reality of booking in the most populated city in the world.

Have you tried Queens or Brooklyn?

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powersjcb 720 days ago
I've only ever booked the Airbnbs in Brooklyn before. (We usually try to visit friends in Williamsburg/Greenpoint/Bushwick) Hotels in those neighborhoods are easily $300-500 per night for a queen bed on a weekend.

The alternative of midtown/queens hotels are typically still $200-300, but cost more in travel time/expense.

My gripe here is mainly that before I could plan an outing for group and we could all live in the space and have common areas for eating/relaxing. Even if hotels were the same price, they still are a worse experience than staying in a house/apartment with friends.

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piva00 721 days ago
> I chalked it up as the reality of booking in the most populated city in the world.

Sorry for being pedantic but I believe this isn't really true.

New York ranks 11th in the world [0], it's not even the most populated in the Americas, nor 2nd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities

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Yawrehto 721 days ago
More pedantry: Population density would make more sense in this context, but it's also not true. It's the most densely populated major city in the US, but that's definitely not the world. Per the same article, by city limits NYC is #18 out of 81, by urban area it's #74, and by metropolitan area it's #19. Densely populated, but it's no Mumbai - which, no matter how you measure it, eclipses NYC in both population and population density.
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toastercat 720 days ago
Woops! I messed up.
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