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I Stayed At The Cheapest Airbnb In NYC - YouTube
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so my friend Jake and I decided to take
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a trip to New York City and one of the
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things him and I tried to do together is
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stepping outside of our comfort zone and
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it's actually a lot of fun this video
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started out as a complete joke but we
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actually did it
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we found the cheapest air B&B in all of
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New York City and stayed for two nights
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you see most people spend a lot of money
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on vacations including myself and we
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wanted to see if it was just as
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enjoyable staying on a budget an extreme
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budget in this case of $30 per night so
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before we get into the tour here is the
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backstory of the listing the original
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listing on Airbnb just showed four
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photos of the same pullout sofa bed
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however a few weeks later there were
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some additional photos of a TV and a few
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office chairs added to the listing one
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thing we made sure to note was the House
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Rules
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which simply said 15 steps so at a total
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cost of $75 and 64 cents we were off to
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New York City
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now just for contrast I have stayed in
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New York City countless times in Airbnb
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and hotels and I typically spend around
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150 to 200 dollars per night so getting
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an Airbnb rental for $30 a night is
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absolutely unheard of and this is very
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cheap for the area so we had no idea of
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what we were getting ourselves into here
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but we decided to find out now this
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particular host actually has 7 different
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listings and it appears they are all in
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the same house he actually has 37
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reviews most of them being 5 stars
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now our room in particular had 11
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ratings and 4.7 3 stars
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overall which was actually extremely
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positive one review did mention a bad
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smell in the bathroom but other than
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that it was all positive
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now one favor I want to ask you guys
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before I reveal the listing if you could
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just go ahead and drop a like on this
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video for the YouTube algorithm it
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really does help out and allows this
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video to get shared with more people and
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it also shows some support for the fact
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that we actually spent two nights at the
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cheapest Airbnb in New York City however
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I will say this there were a number of
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friendly
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animals that greeted us along our
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journey and then I think we were
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drinking and one of us was like hey what
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if we go stay at the cheapest air B&B in
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New York City and then here we are it is
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a Wednesday it is 8:25 a.m. I don't mean
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to embarrass you but it's actually
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Thursday it is Thursday it's Thursday
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and we are staying and the cheapest
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Airbnb that we can find so the key for
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our Airbnb was left for us in the
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mailbox but we couldn't find the right
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one for our room so right off the bat I
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called the host and he answered the
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phone pretty quickly right off the bat
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we've changed he's changed it to number
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four so we're not in number two so he's
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changing our room number great that's
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what I thought was happening there okay
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guys so we just checked into the place
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here not gonna live when we were on the
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train this one woman came up to me and
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tapped me on the arm and she went like
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this and tapped on her eye and then
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pointed to my stuff so I was like not
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really feeling good about the area we
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were going into and I'm beginning to
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understand why this inter B&B is only
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$30 per night and we are actually made
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out much better in this unit because we
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actually have like a full size bed I'm
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actually pretty impressed with it for 30
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bucks a night we do have a trash can
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which appears to be totally empty and
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clean and honestly like the bed looks
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really nice one towel so we're gonna
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have to figure that one out
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we got one towel here at one wash cloth
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but to be honest with you like I'm gonna
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kind of strip the bed just to take it
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look here but it looks pretty clean I
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mean it's white and like that's what it
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say about Airbnb is like it's long if
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it's white you know that it's been
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cleaned and analysis smells completely
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clean yeah this is a totally clean
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pillow we'll just take a quick peek at
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the mattress to make sure but to be
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honest with you this looks like it's a
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really clean bed and yeah there's like
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no stains on this mattress at all
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that you know we have the closet I put
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some myself in here and then we have all
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eight SI units pile up in here so yeah I
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don't know this is uh not bad at all for
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30 bucks I was expecting far worse so we
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ended up in a totally different room
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which was actually a lot nicer than the
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one that we saw in the photos it had a
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real bed with clean linens and a towel
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and washcloth and I have to give them
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credit where credit is due here because
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while this wasn't the nicest place on
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the outside the linens were very clean
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and it's hard to hide stains on plate
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and it was white towels a white
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washcloth and white bedding then
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unfortunately things went downhill when
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we visited the communal bathroom and
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kitchen while there were some cleaning
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supplies underneath the sink
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it didn't seem like they had been used
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at any point in time recently and it was
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at this point that we realized we would
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not be showering for the next two days
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the kitchen itself was totally unusable
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I wouldn't want to cook a meal or eat a
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meal anywhere near that place and you
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couldn't access the backyard because of
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the trash piled up there we did find
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extra towels being stored in the kitchen
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cabinets and the cover for a light
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fixture was inside of the oven so after
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exploring the entire unit we settled in
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for the night
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the next day we did some sightseeing in
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New York City we checked out the Freedom
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Tower and had a number of craft beers
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which explains what happened next when
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we got home that night we were feeling
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breathed and we decided it was time to
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investigate the basement
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if anyone stopped us we would simply
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tell them we were looking for the
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bathroom which at the time based on the
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number of craft beers we had consumed
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that seemed very believable
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so overall what we have to say here is
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that for $30 a night this actually
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exceeded our expectations and I ended up
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giving the host a five-star review our
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room was actually upgraded and despite
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the fact that the location wasn't ideal
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and the building was kind of crappy the
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linens themselves were very clean the
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only thing that was really not great
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about this listing was the kitchen and
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the bathroom but you know what for a
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place to crash for $30 per night it's
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about what you would expect we were like
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you know 20 feet away from a Popeye's
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this whole time so we've been taking
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advantage of that and so yeah honestly
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like I would do this again and it wasn't
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too bad now from this whole experience I
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will certainly have a better
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appreciation for things I take for
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granted at my next Airbnb state such as
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a private bathroom and functioning
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closet doors but at the end of the day
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we had a great time in New York City and
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this was a good place to crash so what
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that's gonna wrap up this video guys if
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you want to check out Jake's video we
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just started doing the channel so if you
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want to see his side of the cheapest
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Airbnb video I will go ahead and put a
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card up in the corner so you can check
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his out but that's gonna wrap up this
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video guys thanks for watching and I
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hope to see you in the next one
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