The Two Things I Always Check in an Airbnb Listing

Sharon Fisher
4 min readSep 13, 2021
Distorted kitchen photo taken with a fisheye lens
When kitchen fisheye lens photos go wrong. Photo from OfficeList Blog

There’s two things I always look at when I’m considering an Airbnb location, particularly for the long term. That’s 1) the photos and 2) the reviews.

The Photos

I know, I know. “But Sharon! Didn’t you just tell us last time about how irrelevant many Airbnb photos are?” And yes, they are. (Particularly when they do the real estate trick of using a…

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Sharon Fisher

Sharon Fisher is a digital nomad who writes about technology and tourism. Sometimes at the same time.