> My experience has been the exact opposite. I'm not a heavy user, but I've stayed at an airbnb at least 5 times now and each one of those stays were significantly cheaper than a comparable hotel, but with a way better experience in almost every way.
Are you comparing published list prices, or the opaque prices through priceline / hotwire? Because I was clearly talking about opaque, which is a better comparison with Airbnb anyways, since you never really know what you're getting.
> Also, finding multi room hotel suites for a reasonable price is usually next to impossible.
You must be a novice hotel traveller, then. Pretty much all Hyatt House and Hyatt Place are suites that essential have two rooms (House would even have a door between them often), as well as Residence Inn and SpringHill Suites. Courtyard by Marriott has full suite rooms, too; surprisingly, very often the price difference between two-room suite and non-suite is like a symbolic $10 or $20, although you generally don't get any discounts if you require a suite, and can't use points for them, either. Hampton Inn (by Hilton) has two-room suites as an upgrade, too. I'm pretty sure other brands do, too.
Heck, you could even go opaque for two rooms, and ask for a connecting door, which most decent hotels always do have.