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Renting your Home on Airbnb: Part 1 Renting your Home on Airbnb: Part 2 Renting your Home on Airbnb: Part 3 What I Learned From My Airbnb Guests Guest 1: Our first group of guests was comprised of several members of a family coming to stay for a wedding. At first, communication was poor with these guests. As soon as we received confirmation of...
Airbnb, hosting, renting, what i learned from my guests, traveling with kids, family travel, diapersonaplane, Diapers On A Plane, making the decision
Renting Your Home on Airbnb: Part 1 How To Make the Decision to Open Your Home to Guests Within our first two years of marriage, Gabriel and I co-managed a small apartment building in Downtown Portland directly next to the Max (local transit train). Our building would literally rattle every time it went by, and our window sills were full of...
Fushimi Inari-Taisha Shrine
When it comes to deciding between booking a hotel or an airbnb in Kyoto, or any part of Japan for that matter, the decision is easy. Definitely book an airbnb. Hotel rates are based per person, not per room, and occupancy levels are strictly adhered to with exact allowances of who can and cannot be in the room. When you are...
Costa Rican Airbnb, Costa Rica, Traveling with kids, Family Travel, Diapersonaplane, Diapers On A Plane
When we found a small little cabin from Airbnb in Costa Rica in a gorgeous setting bordered by lush forests and a property filled with banana, papaya, and mango trees, we were intrigued. Of course, any Costa Rica Resort can provide green layouts and (maybe better) amenities. But for this trip, we choose Airbnb. We read about the host...
Glamping in Moab, Moab RV, Arches National Park, Glamping in Tents
If you are looking for Moab Utah Campgrounds, but don't want to deal with taking a tent and all the supplies, glamping in Moab is a great alternative. Glamping is the next best thing to camping and vacationing outdoors. 
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True, we swore off airbnb last December after our horrific experience in Norway. But then, airbnb reached out to us personally and made good on the situation by offering us nearly a full refund back to our original form of payment. It still took us 8 months to forgive them, and we learned to be much more scrupulous in...
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We knew it would be an adventure to travel for Christmas, especially through two different climates and with a suitcase full of Christmas presents, but we didn’t quite anticipate everything that could go wrong, would go wrong. On our first leg of the trip from Salt Lake City, Utah to Galveston, Texas one of our bags of luggage was...
Hiroshima airbnb, world school, hiroshima, traveling with kids, family travel, diapersonaplane, diapers on a plane,
We didn't know how good we had it. This was our first airbnb experience in Japan, and we didn't fully appreciate the fusion of amenities we were offered. We didn't yet appreciate that traditional Japanese housing offers mats on the floor instead of mattresses, paper for walls, a soaking tub with a bucket instead of a shower, and hand...