To say that Airbnb has revolutionized the process of booking – and enjoying – travel accommodations would be an understatement. Where else can you book a forest treehouse, a high-rise apartment with a rooftop pool, and a houseboat on the ocean, all in the same place? Airbnb just launched the biggest updates to its platform in a decade, and Catherine Powell, the company’s Global Head of Hosting, is here to tell us all about it. Going forward, you don’t even have to know where you want to travel in order to book a stay, with new “Categories” breaking properties down into niche lists. There’s even the mind-blowing, if rather ambiguous, “OMG!” category, which features everything from a home that looks like a snake to a Kellogg Doolittle house in Joshua Tree that resembles a giant mushroom.
Should you need two properties for the same journey, the new “Split Stays” feature allows you to book them both at the same time, with the company’s new AirCover policy to back you up in case anything should go wrong. All in all, the world’s most popular homeshare platform just got a massive upgrade – and we can’t wait to get out on the road and put it to the test.
In Hot Takes, Tim and Eben discuss the validity of having enemies – and both struggle to recount whether they have any (if you hate either of us, please don’t let us know in an Apple review). Tim asks Eben whether or not he would book a trip not knowing where it is headed, if it were to pursue his favority hobby.
Relevant links:
- Airbnb’s Summer 2022 Release
- Browse Airbnb Categories
- The lowdown on Airbnb’s big upgrade
- Tim’s Instagram
- Eben’s Instagram
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