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What Happens When Your Airbnb Doesn’t Have Wifi
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When you travel internationally with small children the key to success is gelato. Facing a meltdown? Promise and then produce delicious icy goodness. When they have grown up, you switch to alcohol and cappuccinos.
What you absolutely do not do is book an Airbnb without wifi.
In my defense, I was fooled by the description which promised a desk and chair perfect for work from home on a laptop. How one is supposed to accomplish said work without internet is beyond me.
The four twenty-something young people in our party took it pretty well. Thankfully cell phone service was good and those with extensive data plans generously allowed tethering for those without.
Wifi was not the only thing lacking in our four-bedroom, two-bath, Airbnb.
“Where is the french press?” my spouse asked rummaging through the mostly empty kitchen cupboards.
“I don’t think there is one,” I replied. “But look there is a drip coffee maker.”
His face twisted in disdain, “What is this? The 90s ? How can I make decent coffee with this?”
Being a tea drinker myself, I failed to muster the appropriate level of sympathy until I realized there was a teapot…
