Hotels are much cheaper value proposition than AirBnB.
Such an obvious short $abnb.
Recently I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about being asked to clean an Airbnb when they’ve already paid a cleaning fee
As a host, I find this attitude quite worrying
My wife and I rent out the apartment in Germany. We charge a €145 cleaning fee, and we still expect guests to:
1. Strip the beds and start a wash, separating whites from colours
2. Wash, dry and put away all dishes
3. Sweep and mop the floors
4. Take out all rubbish, separating paper, cardboard, clear glass, coloured glass, plastics, metal, organic waste and residual waste
5. Take bottles with a deposit to the supermarket return machine.
6. Send photos showing the apartment is ready before the 8:30am checkout
These tasks must be completed before departure. If you have an early flight, allow time the evening before
The cleaning fee pays for professional cleaning. It does not pay for someone to pick up after you
Here in Europe, we teach children to leave a place as they found it
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect the same from adults on holiday
Brand destruction from brand extension.
I owned Ferrari $race from 50 to 500. Been short ever since
Porsche went from “everyone wants one” to “what a hideous SUV”
I wouldn’t drive anything with Porsche or Ferrari
Destroyed brands they built over decades
夜 = Ya = night
八 = Ya = eight
Many other ways to say night or eight in Japanese
Replying to @MerriamWebster
This similarity is a coincidence.
The Romance languages get their words for "eight" from Latin ‘octo’ and their words for "night" from Latin ‘noctem.’
‘Octo’ and ‘noctem’ do have that ‘-oct-’ bit in common, but it is just happenstance.
Pirate equity explained.
Horrific underperformance of public equity when calculated correctly
Best hotel in Japan?
Yunomori Hotel Shidotaira in Hanamaki, Iwate prefecture
mainichi.jp/english/articles…
New mountain climbing rules in Japan
Must be able to write, read and say all of below kanji from memory.
Snowboarding strength of our Japan team is impressive
youtube.com/shorts/NeOPT3KiI…
世界一
Tsujikubo Rinne is the Otani Shohei of mental arithmetic.
Worlds best human calculator. Faster than electronic calculators
youtube.com/watch?v=JjmxFjcu…
Travel enjoyment obeys inverse cube law 1/(n^3)
If travel with 1 person n=2, enjoy 1/8 if had gone solo
Family, 3 kids? 1/125 of solo
Tour group with 30 "friends"? 27,000 times worse
Cruise with 1,000? Billion times worse than solo
ONLY TRAVEL ALONE!
theguardian.com/travel/2025/…





















