Tagged: apartment-rental

5 Ways to Ensure A Vacation Rental Meets Your Definition of Clean

The rental home business is booming. Demand at some agencies has as much as doubled from 2020 through 2021. Homes away from home—houses, villas, condos, and apartments—provide families…

Vacation Rental Law Hits Hawaii Hard—How to Navigate Tough Rental Regulations

Long before Airbnb was a twinkle on founder Brian Chesky’s browser, New York State had a law severely limiting short-term rentals. Called the "Multiple Dwelling Law," it has, in its…

Arthur Frommer: It's Smart to Make Sure Your Airbnb Host is at Home

A massive battle is being waged in courtrooms all over the world between supporters of short-term apartment rentals and cities wanting to put an end to those uses. The cities claim…

A Website Called Fairbnb Has Flung an "Ethical" Challenge to Airbnb

Although it has successfully helped millions of travelers to find overnight accommodations in an apartment or home, Airbnb is still mired in controversy and fending off attacks. It…

I’m Now One of Those People: A Traveler with an Airbnb Horror Story

It didn’t happen because I’m a careless idiot, or a very picky, persnickity traveler. It happened because I’m a (bit) lazy. I was heading to Chicago for work and an unrelated…

Hugely Popular European Destination Bans Apartment Rentals

Between 2015 and 2017, illegal vacation rentals, fueled by services such as Airbnb, shot up 50%. As a consequence, rent for locals skyrocketed 40%.For a small Mediterranean island…

When Airbnb Goes Wrong

We love Airbnb. We do. It has the power to transform the way travelers interact with local culture and make expensive destinations affordable. It also strips the power out of the…

Airbnb Gives One Free Night to First-Time Users

Apartment and home rental has been, as most everyone knows by now, one of the booming sectors of the travel industry. And with good reason: It's often much cheaper than renting a…

Genealogy Tourism: Tracing Your Ancestors in Germany

While England may be our "mother country," there are more people here of German extraction than of English -- about 50 million of them, in fact. For a while, German had a chance of…

Digital Travel Photography: Backing Up and Sharing Your Images

One of the best things about travel is the chance to get away from it all -- meaning a temporary replacement of the elements of your everyday life with new sights, sounds, foods,…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's South Korea

The official website of the Korean Tourism Organization (KTO) has recently been changed to www.visitkorea.or.kr (the English site is http://english.visitkorea.or.kr). The old site;…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Northern Italy

Venice A cloud of controversy hangs over the new, fourth bridge being built over Venice's Grand Canal. Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's curving structure has been bashed by…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Bermuda

Planning Your Trip The government of Bermuda is working to overcome its stuffy reputation. Tourism Minister Ewart Brown said, "We're in transition from boring to pop and sizzle."…