I’m curious to hear how other hosts are offering Netflix, Hulu, etc. in their units. I am starting to hit the “scalability wall” with the way I’ve been doing it so far.
The way I’ve been doing it so far has been to simply have an extra profile under each of my personal streaming accounts. The “guest profile” is named in a way that’s obvious to guests and it sits alongside the profiles for my other family members. My personal profiles are PIN-locked as needed so that people don’t rent movies, change my subscription plan, etc.
Netflix is the most forgiving as far as enabling me to use a single account across 5 STRs (plus my personal home). On the other end, Hulu is the most restrictive, as far as constantly booting TVs off and having to go through the “update household” method to get them back on.
Once in a while a guest says something like “Netflix/Hulu isn’t working, what do I do?” and I have to tell them to click “update household” and/or to have it send me a code so that I can relay the code back to them for authentication.
And sometimes guests log me out completely so that they can log in as themselves, and sometimes they forget to log out, or even worse, they DO log out, and now the next guest is not logged in at all, which is a pain to deal with. (Special thanks though to our guest “kittybunz” who logged into Paramount 3 years ago -- a service we don’t even pay for -- and we are still using it to this day LOL).
We’re on the hunt for property #6 and I think my poor-man’s solution is at its end. I would love to hear how others are doing it, and hopefully the answer is not to create a separate account for EVERY streaming service multiplied by EVERY property :-)
