Same. Stayed at an Airbnb in Copenhagen and we picked up and dropped off keys from the pizza shop across the street.

And over the course of our 6 week stay, we definitely ate at that pizza shop a few times!

>This still happens in my experience, I've picked up keys from friends and Airbnb hosts via a local business in the past few years.

Seems strange to me, I've never done anything of the sort and wouldn't consider it. The closest is maybe leaving things at school for another parent to pickup because they left them with my kid.

But there is usually a code with some app and all of the social aspects have been removed. It’s not much different than being a higher scale realtor key box.

Well, if a guest gives off a dangerous vibe, the clerk can make judgement call.

Well, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't but the idea that a local store owner wouldn't give me if I were to give off a "dangerous vibe" would be somewhat concerning. But maybe I have ancestry etc. where I just don't give off that vibe. More generally, I guess I'm just pretty used to lodging where a delayed flight doesn't mean I can't get in.

> but the idea that a local store owner wouldn't give me if I were to give off a "dangerous vibe" would be somewhat concerning

If the person had a history at denying the keys at random for no good reason, people wouldn't trust them with the keys anymore.

Anyway, it's way more likely that they would call the home owner instead of just denying. People are mostly reasonable.

> People are mostly reasonable.

People recently voted Trump into office.

the quote discounts that read:

> with a feeling of no personal responsibility about our private affairs

I'm a paying customer, why tf should I care what the clerk thinks?

I paid the money, give me the key. Plus at no point did I pay them any money -- they're just, essentially, key escrow.

It's good marketing for them since being in and out of a pizza place means someone will likely buy a slice, but as a BnB customer IDGAF what they think outside of giving me that bloody key.