27Jun2025 - This is turning into a journal/journey-down-memory-lane thing. I'm looking through my old photo albums, and at the same time, other memories and thoughts are popping up in my mind. This is what old(er) people do, yes? 9May2025 - I decided to leave FB, and just share my photos etc here. Thank you to the special people who check in here...(7Dec2022 - crlazlo meanderings 2 is now 2.1 - I will continue to use it as a preview/workspace for my FB posts, but I will also start organizing the many photos from my retirement years, and also start a journal/memories thing. That's the plan anyway.)

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Airbnb rentals - Pt 1: I decided to do my exercise walk inside the building yesterday, going up and down the stairs, exploring the different business floors, etc. Post Covid, there has been a surge in Airbnb rentals throughout Cebu, and in this building as well. I do understand the incentives and benefits of renting out one's place, but it's been an adjustment for some us owners who actually live here. I should note that we also rented out our place, for 6 months earlier this year. One and done. When we returned in November, there was a separate counter set up in the lobby specifically for Airbnb guests. Back to my walk, I walked down our hallway and past the elevators towards the other end of the building, passing 4 or 5 people before reaching the stairs door at the other end. I said "good morning" to a few people, and they said "good morning" back to me. People were still streaming out of the room they had rented, 12 or 13 in total. Please note - I still love this place... Going down the stairs, I stopped on the 9th floor, one of several floors designated as "Entry door" floors. It was shut and locked. I walked down to the 8th floor, which had a "No Entry" sign, and I went through it. Evidently, in pre-Covid time, they had a bunch of offices and businesses operating on that floor, there were public restrooms, etc...a nice area. I meandered through the hallways until I reached what I thought was one of the hotel elevators, and pushed G thinking it was their lobby. We're all part of a larger complex. When the elevator opened, I found myself in the lobby area next to our apt lobby. I had ridden that elevator only once before, when we saw the singer Vina Morales at the Casino during last January's Sinulog festivities. I walked around the second and lobby floors downstairs, walked by the singing Santa Claus, through the glass door going past the in-house mini-market and over to the hotel next door. I walked through the hotel lobby, out onto the sidewalk and over to our building's front door. To be continued:

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