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Airbnb: 1 Night Free for New Users, Andorra new top choice

Airbnb, the vacation rental site, is offering a special for first-time renters: 1 night free up to $300 on rentals of 2 nights or more. Reservations must be made by Jan. 17 for stays up to March 1. DETAILS from the Sacramento Business Journal.

 

P.S.: Airbnb says its top trending destination for 2014 is...Andorra!

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"At least two nights" is 2 nights.  Otherwise it would be "more than 2 nights".  I think it's exactly what they want, stay for "at least 2" (or more), pay for one (or more).  Am I missing something?  Anyone?  It's an effort to encourage people to try the site and they've made it very attractive to do it.  No dummies, those Airbnb folks.

Given the way the system works, I don't believe it concerns the hosts at all who will be paid for all nights.  The promotion is, I have to believe, at the expense of the company and not the individuals with listings.  Since there's a promotion code, it should all take place at the website level when booking.  

I'm lost folks. Is the confusion resulting from the brief comment with the news clip? If so, I apologize, although it seems to me to be a pretty good replication of this quote from the original document, which they copied from an Airbnb press release, by the way. 

 

" First-time Airbnb guests who book a trip betweenJanuary 13-17 for travel by March 31, for stays of at least two days, will receive a one night discount (up to $300) on their trip."

 

I don't see why "over one night" is clearer than "at least two days."

 

The text describes the actual mechanism of using a promo code to get the discount and states "Host payouts will not be affected by permissible guest use of the code."

 

Which makes sense, since Airbnb guests do not pay Airbnb hosts. They pay Airbnb, which then pays the hosts--that's the whole basis of the system.

The best part of every trip is realizing that it has upset your expectations

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