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Comment by milkshakes | Hacker News Reader

use airbnb.com.au. they are legally required to display the real price, and break it down in search results :)

Just did a quick test. The US version has the nightly price as the first number with the total under it, and the AU site has the total price listed instead.

Interestingly, the AU price was a couple dollars more than the US price. Threw together a quick side-by-side: https://imgur.com/a/DJwG5z9

Also US and I see the nightly and total. That’s good enough for me. Lets me understand what an additional day will cost. Basically they give you the full y=m*x+b instead of just y.

You linked a screenshot after you already selected a property. If you are back on the property search page, it shows a nightly price and a total price on hover, but when you click the total price goes up by the cleaning fee and the service fee. And those seem to be completely random so it's not like you can just add $100 in your head to every price. Anywhere they show a price, it should be the total price.

Same goes for hotels + resort fees, though. It seems like the only place I can really see the actual price is on airline websites?

EDIT: I just tried to repro and now the total is always matching. I swear I was just raging about this 4 days ago when I booked a trip... gah.

Aussie here, never realised this was a complaint. Everything I see across nearly every site is always the total price.

Do they still show properties sans filter criteria (i.e. air conditioning striked out)?

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