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Are you fed up of paying a cleaning fee on Airbnb but still being asked to wash the dishes or strip the bed before checking out, or is it just common courtesy? The room and house-hosting platform has announced new rules, meaning hosts will no longer be able to require guests to do such chores before checkout. How do you feel about the new policy?

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00:00How clean do you leave your Airbnb room or house?
00:04The platform is changing its rules when it comes to what hosts can expect of guests in terms of cleaning,
00:10with guests not expected to wash dishes or strip beds.
00:15The new rules take effect for bookings made from the 20th of November.
00:20Here's what some Leeds locals make of the new policy.
00:25Of course, if you've booked an Airbnb, you're going to go there, you're going to stay there.
00:29I think whatever mess you make up, common sense, man, clean it up.
00:34You know what I mean? I stay in hotels and stuff and I tend to...
00:38I know you've got people that come in and clean, but that's just where I like to clean up,
00:43do my own bed and everything like that.
00:45So I think in Airbnb, out of respect, you've made the mess, you clean it up.
00:51To be honest, if you're paying a cleaning fee, why would you run around afterwards?
00:56If I go on holiday, I don't want to go and wash up. I genuinely don't.
01:00And if you're paying a cleaning fee, no, absolutely not.
01:03You shouldn't be able to force people.
01:04Yeah, it's not part of your holiday, isn't it?
01:05Well, you've paid people... You're paying for a cleaning fee.
01:08So you're paying for it to be cleaned.
01:10Absolutely.
01:10It's like washing up before your cleaner comes at home, isn't it?
01:13Yeah.
01:13You just wouldn't do it.
01:14Well, not that I've got to leave.
01:15No.
01:18I always leave things out.
01:19I've found them, but I suppose if you were renting a hotel room,
01:23you wouldn't be expected to make the beds.
01:26So it's a similar sort of principle, really, I'd have thought.
01:29Yeah.
01:29Yeah.
01:29No.

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