Airbnb guests no longer have to wash dishes or strip beds. Furious hosts are threatening to boycott and raise cleaning fees
Source: Fortune ·
A new policy bars hosts from making guests do work “typically performed by a cleaner.” Guests are thrilled, more than 10,000 hosts have signed a petition against it, and some are planning a booking blackout.
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Airbnb guests who are tired of spending the final hour of their vacation stripping beds and scrubbing pans are about to get a break. Many hosts are not happy about it. Under a new “reasonable house rules and requests” policy announced Oct. 20, Airbnb hosts generally can no longer ask guests to “complete tasks that require significant effort or time, or would typically be performed by a cleaner.” The company names three examples: stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, and washing and putting away dishes. The policy applies worldwide to reservations booked on or after Nov. 20, 2026. Existing bookings aren’t affected. The change targets one of travelers’ most persistent complaints about the platform: paying a cleaning fee, then being handed a chore list anyway. CEO Brian Chesky acknowledged the frustration in 2022, saying checkout tasks should be reasonable. What’s new is a written policy with enforcement. What Airbnb’s new rules actually ban Hosts now choose from seven standard house…