Saturday, November 16, 2019

Everyone should try sharing an Airbnb with a complete stranger

Chances are you’re no longer a penny-pinching college student who’ll happily sleep on any old surface — clean or not — while travelling, just to save a few bucks. And while your keg-stand days are a hazy, foamy memory in the past, your desire to score a good deal isn’t.

This week travel journalist Vaughn Stafford Gray (VGH) took one for the team (“team” being those of us who aren’t yet prepared to stay in a shared home abroad) and booked himself into a private room, rather than searching for “entire accommodations” on Airbnb.


In major cities like New York, Paris, Toronto, Tokyo and Miami, which is where Stafford Gray was visiting, booking a private room inside of a stranger’s home was significantly cheaper than booking someone’s entire apartment or a hotel room.

Not only did the lower accommodation cost allow for a more flexible budget on more important things, like food, it also meant he had access to insider info on the city and his neighborhood of choice, all because he was staying with an outgoing local.

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