Airbnb
World's largest vacation rental marketplace: 14-17% guest service fee applies — always view total price. Superhosts and long-stay discounts (10-20% weekly, 20-40% monthly) are the key savings levers.
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- ✓Commerce profile available — Shopping policies and cashback guidance on file
- ✓Verified merchant information — official website, founding year, headquarters, category
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Shopping Policies
- ✓Price adjustment: unknown
Gift Cards
Airbnb sells gift cards, but gift card purchases are typically excluded from portal cashback.
Common Cashback Exclusions
- ✓Gift cards
- ✓Host service fees
- ✓Experiences may be excluded separately
Shopping Notes
- ✓Airbnb portal availability changes — search portals before each trip
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- ✓Always switch to 'Display total price' in Airbnb search settings — the default per-night price excludes the 14-17% service fee, cleaning fee, and taxes. Total cost per night for a 3-night Airbnb can be 40-60% above the advertised nightly rate.
- ✓When shopping Airbnb, filter for Superhost (4.8+ rating, 10+ stays, 90%+ response rate) — measurably better reliability for arrivals, amenity accuracy, and issue resolution than non-Superhost listings.
- ✓7-night filter: Airbnb shows weekly-discount pricing when you book 7+ nights. Many hosts offer 10-20% weekly discounts that automatically appear in search results filtered by 7+ nights.
- ✓Monthly stays (28+ nights): host monthly discounts average 20-40% off nightly rates — a meaningful option for remote workers or winter/summer extended stays. Total monthly cost for a furnished Airbnb often undercuts furnished apartment costs.
- ✓Airbnb Experiences (cooking classes, guided hikes, city tours hosted by locals) are separate from accommodation bookings — not subject to hotel OTA markups and often priced below equivalent tour operators.
⚡Stacking Tips
- ✓Chase Sapphire Reserve earns 3x on Airbnb as a travel purchase; Preferred earns 3x — both outperform flat-rate cards on Airbnb bookings.
- ✓Amex Platinum earns 5x on Airbnb bookings made directly through Airbnb.com or the app — the highest card earn rate available at Airbnb.
- ✓Portal cashback on Airbnb varies by platform (1-5%) — compare Rakuten and Capital One Shopping before booking, particularly on longer stays where the cashback yield is larger in absolute terms.
- ✓Long-stay discount + portal cashback + travel card 3-5x = meaningful combined return on 7+ night bookings where the service fee is spread over more nights.
ℹ️About Airbnb
- Official website
- www.airbnb.com
- Category
- Travel
- Focus
- Vacation Rentals
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Countries
- US, CA, UK, AU, EU
Airbnb hosts 7M+ listings across homes, rooms, unique stays, and Experiences in 220+ countries. The critical number most guests don't check: Airbnb charges a 14-17% guest service fee on top of the host's listed nightly price. Always view the total price (nightly × nights + cleaning fee + service fee + taxes) before comparing to a hotel. The math often favors Airbnb for groups of 3+ sharing a home vs. booking multiple hotel rooms, but solo and couple bookings are sometimes cheaper at a hotel after fees. Superhosts (4.8+ rating, 10+ stays, 90%+ response rate) are significantly more reliable for multi-night stays. Weekly discounts (7+ nights, typically 10-20%) and monthly discounts (28+ nights, typically 20-40%) are set per host and reduce the per-night rate shown in filtered search results. There is no Airbnb loyalty program — no points, no status.
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