Airbnb offers travelers a unique alternative to hotel chains and bed and breakfast accommodations. The service allows home and apartment owners to list their accommodations, or even shared rooms. The service offers an excellent framework for travelers and travel planners to bid on and stay at those destinations. This allows for a multitude of advantages as opposed to staying at a hotel chain, namely having access to local information (the hosts) and the ability to be able to stay at some of the most exotic and unique places previously unavailable to travelers.
Ashton Kutcher invests in bed and breakfast service
Recently the Airbnb website got a boost after Ashton Kutcher had made a sizable investment in the online tourism and accommodation booking service. This is a tremendous endorsement to the service specifically as it is new and has had to compete against the giants in the hotel chain and travel industry.
One great feature of the site is that visitor reviews are available that allow one to be able to quickly read up on the host, accommodation and bid/book. Full descriptions together with photos and ratings are all part of each listing.
An alternative to hotels – largest global network of bed and breakfast locations
They offer a multitude of tools that aid users in the search for such accommodations:
- Twitter and Facebook
- iPhone App
- Online global map of offerings and places to stay at
- Boutique Hotels, Houses, and even Castles are available
- Photos of rooms, views, pricing details
- Real reviews of the accommodations
- An onsite messaging system to help with communications
- Payment center to help with online payments
- Ability to contact the host directly to confirm check-in and other details.
One should note that these accommodations are not public hotels but something more akin to a luxury bed and breakfast that is owned by somebody else, your host. It’s free to list which encourages users form all over the world to list their accommodations. Allows one to share experiences, of your stay, be it a private room, animal or pet friendly space, or a private mansion, even a castle!
Unique places are available all over the world. All featuring very competitive rates and this is possibly the only service that aggregates such a large group of international hosts (or bed and breakfast locations), from all over the world in one place. Only thing to worry about is where to go next.
Mike Kilinsk - Mike has a background in Mechanical engineering, has been a principal in three different software companies, specializing in constraint ...
