Exactly, I think it deserves a whole article on its own but Airbnb is TOTALLY different in Europe, Asia and US (though I have little experience in the latter).
In Europe it's super friendly and human interaction is awesome and it feels like what Airbnb claims to be. In Japan they all do this lock key thing which is super weird and impersonal for me but I can see how it fits with their privacy-focuses culture. In the rest of Asia where I've been it's basically just a business and they leave the key with the building staff so it's almost like a hotel check-in.
The single time I was in a US Airbnb it was like in Europe just a bit more "giving us space" so to speak.
In Europe it's super friendly and human interaction is awesome and it feels like what Airbnb claims to be. In Japan they all do this lock key thing which is super weird and impersonal for me but I can see how it fits with their privacy-focuses culture. In the rest of Asia where I've been it's basically just a business and they leave the key with the building staff so it's almost like a hotel check-in.
The single time I was in a US Airbnb it was like in Europe just a bit more "giving us space" so to speak.