>>2820695
Depends on how much you trust Indian IT security to do their job. And that doesn't even get into the whole issue of the room looking nothing like the pictures on the listing, or lacking the amenities that you specifically selected it for. Delays along the way will be stressful and frustrating with your plans locked in.

I'd like to go anywhere I want to go on a whim and then walk around asking people if there is a place nearby to stay for a night. Besides, renting a room directly from its owner is as anti-corporate as it gets. Modern travel feels soulless precisely because everything is so corporatized and impersonal. You select a property online, you pay a big commission to a giant globohomo booking platform to reserve your stay, and most of the time you never even get to meet the owner. You're just another faceless passive-income paypig to them.