We can barely afford to go at all. Adding restaurant food for every meal makes us cut the trip shorter or pick somewhere closer (we’re really far from any beach and my wife loves the beach but she’d rather have to do a little cooking at the beach than not be able to go.)
That said,there are things you can do to make the cleaning easier. Cook over fire outside. Eat with paper plates and disposable utensils. We usually wash tons of dishes cooking for six at home, but on our rare vacations we try to wash none or as few as possible.
Vacation rental companies exist anywhere you want to go, people wanted the same thing you do before Airbnb. And you don’t have to do the fucking dishes when you leave
Are you sure about that? Every cabin/condo I’ve stayed in my entire life has had a booklet of checkout instructions and while it differs from place to place you’re generally expected to load and start the dishwasher. That’s probably the most universal one. Stuff like stripping beds and starting laundry are more varied, but I’ve never seen instructions that are just totally cool with you leaving your dirty dishes out.
Hotels are different, of course, but still, you could get non-hotel places from tons of vacation rental companies before AirBnB.
I’ve looked at all the options I can find for decades for everywhere we go. Airbnb has been the best option I can find probably half the time for probably the last six or seven years. There are other options, but they aren’t always better options.
We can barely afford to go at all. Adding restaurant food for every meal makes us cut the trip shorter or pick somewhere closer (we’re really far from any beach and my wife loves the beach but she’d rather have to do a little cooking at the beach than not be able to go.)
That said,there are things you can do to make the cleaning easier. Cook over fire outside. Eat with paper plates and disposable utensils. We usually wash tons of dishes cooking for six at home, but on our rare vacations we try to wash none or as few as possible.
Vacation rental companies exist anywhere you want to go, people wanted the same thing you do before Airbnb. And you don’t have to do the fucking dishes when you leave
Are you sure about that? Every cabin/condo I’ve stayed in my entire life has had a booklet of checkout instructions and while it differs from place to place you’re generally expected to load and start the dishwasher. That’s probably the most universal one. Stuff like stripping beds and starting laundry are more varied, but I’ve never seen instructions that are just totally cool with you leaving your dirty dishes out.
Hotels are different, of course, but still, you could get non-hotel places from tons of vacation rental companies before AirBnB.
I’ve looked at all the options I can find for decades for everywhere we go. Airbnb has been the best option I can find probably half the time for probably the last six or seven years. There are other options, but they aren’t always better options.