Home rental abroad airbnb. Worldwide rental housing with Airbnb. What is Airbnb and how does it work

Gathered in one place links to all sites for booking accommodation on travel that I know of. Here you will find out how easy it is to spend the night in almost any city in the world at the right price or even for free! Or find a truly unusual place, a stay in which will be remembered for a long time.

The post has the largest hostel base in the world, the largest host rental service, sites for booking unusual designer hotels, overnight in exchange for home help or pet care - in general, options for every taste. Choose!

Classic: hotel aggregator sites

Personally, I open these sites first of all when I am going somewhere on a trip. As the name implies, they combine information from various booking systems, such as: booking, hotels, ostrovok (some of the best prices in Russia), agoda (good for traveling in Asia), trivago, expedia and many others.

Aggregators compare prices, look for discounts and special offers, there you can find not only hotels, but also hostels, guest houses - it is very convenient when everything is in one place.

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Free overnight

The best way to understand the country and its people is to get to know the locals, and even better to live with them for a while. Such opportunities are provided by international hospitality sites when people invite guests to their home. You just do not need to see in them only a free overnight stay, rather it is a cultural exchange, interesting communication, the opportunity to tighten up languages \u200b\u200band make new friends around the world.

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Overnight in exchange for housework

These sites should not be considered only as a way to spend the free night, but as a new unusual experience and the opportunity to help people and the ecology of the planet for a week, a month, or maybe more. The bottom line is that you work for several hours a day, and in return receive accommodation and meals.

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Rental services of cool and unusual hotels

If you want to live in a lighthouse, in a treehouse, visit eco-friendly hotels or hotels only for vegetarians, try glamping (glamorous camping) or just have fun, then there are special sites for this.

✔ and - here you can buy someone else's reservation at a discount. Someone could not go and sells their reservation on the site. You get a good discount, and a person receives money for a non-refundable number.

Today I will talk about the service, which was created in 2008 and is increasingly gaining popularity among travelers. Read also about ours in Bangkok.

You will learn how to register and book accommodation on Airbnb, how to get a coupon with a discount of $ 25, and also tell you why the service is interesting and profitable.

What is Airbnb and how does it work?

Many travelers are already accustomed to housing reservation systems, for example Booking or where you can choose a hotel to your taste and wallet in almost any country in the world. But hotels are not always the best option - sometimes it’s more convenient to rent apartments and apartments. This is what Airbnb helps with. We admit, just recently began to book accommodation through airbnb, and now we will help you figure it out too.

Airbnb is a rental of housing around the world from the owners of apartments. Housing can be either separate rooms, houses, apartments, or interesting options, such as trailers, castles and islands. Now the system already has more than 34,000 cities in 190 countries.

It turns out that Airbnb acts as an intermediary between those who want to rent their apartment, house or room and those who want to rent this housing. Naturally, a service takes a commission for such a bridge. For this fee, Airbnb comes with a financial guarantee against all kinds of troubles when you can contact the 24-hour support center and get a refund or settle other issues if something goes wrong.

What is interesting and profitable for Airbnb?

• The service is especially relevant for expensive cities such as Singapore, Paris, other capitals and large cities where hotel prices bite. But you can rent an apartment in Airbnb for 20-40 dollars, and a decent level. For such money in some cities in hotels offer only small rooms.
• The possibility of lively communication over a cup of tea with the owner, a conversation with which will help to get to know the country even deeper and get interesting information.
• It is especially advantageous to rent an apartment for a large company or a family with a child, when the presence of a kitchen and separate space is very desirable. Per person, it often comes out cheaper than a hotel, even very decent apartments, the analogues of which are very expensive in hotels.
• Booking on Airbnb is suitable for a visa, i.e. a printout of the reservation can be provided at the consulate
• Interesting housing options, not the same type of chain hotels. For example, here.

How to register with Airbnb and get a $ 25 coupon

Upon transition you will receive from us $ 25 Personal Airbnb Coupon  on your first reservation (works if its cost exceeds $ 75). For example, if you rent an apartment for 3 days for 27 dollars a day, then pay not $ 81, but only $ 56! This coupon is kept for a whole year, and even if you have not used it for the first time, you can do it later.

Airbnb coupon $ 25 from us!

2. Click on the “get discount” button

3. Now you need to register. You can do this using your Facebook or Google+ accounts, or as usual via e-mail.

4. After registration, you need to confirm your profile - it is simple and does not take more than 3 minutes, follow the prompts of the service in your account.

Account Verification Methods

Account verification methods:

• Email Email
• Phone number
• Your profile photo
• Linking social networks to an account
• Sending a passport / driver’s license scan.

Why do I need a verified Airbnb profile?

By confirming your profile, both you and the owner prove that you really exist, thus increasing confidence. After all, Airbnb is not only a booking service, but also a community of travelers.

Often people choose to live with the confirmed owner of the apartment (the corresponding icon appears in front of him) and I advise you to do so. Also, verified guests are appreciated above))

How Airbnb rents

Now is the time to book your accommodation on Airbnb. We go to the official website and drive the city and dates we need into the search bar.

Search for apartments around the world on Airbnb

All available options appear, and to the right of them there is a map, according to which it is very convenient to look at the areas by moving and moving.

Airbnb reservations - search results with filters and map

Pay attention to the filters - there are several of them. You can choose the type of accommodation, price range and others. More filters are available by clicking on the “More Filters” button - you can quite clearly define your housing requirements.

How to rent an apartment on Airbnb - choose options

We choose the options you like and read about them carefully. There is a section “House Rules”, there are various conditions: is it possible to smoke, is it possible with pets, what beds, the Internet, a bathroom, etc.

Read the description and rules of the house

Pay attention to the reviews and whether the host account is verified. If not, then there is some risk, and maybe it's just a new member, and the reviews did not have time to write. When viewing photos, it’s very good if the photo has the “Verified” icon in the upper right corner - this means that the Airbnb photographer visited this place and the photos correspond to reality.

Airbnb Apartment Reviews

Reviews about the owner of the property and his verified profile

Also pay attention to the conditions for canceling your reservation, they are of several types: in some cases you can return the entire amount minus the service fee, in some cases money is partially refunded or not refunded at all. You can read more at.

Cleaning fee.  In some cases, a cleaning fee is included and it is quite large. Be careful.

In some cases, taken security deposit.  Nothing is deducted from you, in case of damage to property, the owner must send you a request for payment via Airbnb after your departure.

The description says how many people designed housing. In some cases, additional people are paid (the amount is indicated in the description), in some - for free.

We write to the owner of the apartment, find out the details we are interested in and determine its adequacy, if required :-). If you do not know English, then hammer the Russian text into Google translator and copy.

A button for contacting the owner of the property and a booking button

Airbnb Reservation & Payment

1. Next, we send a reservation request. Here you will need to enter your credit card or PayPal wallet. The billing address is your address, or rather, the one you provided when applying for the bank card with which you pay for this accommodation. The owner has 24 hours to confirm your request.

2. For some options, “Instant Booking” is available. In this case, the reservation takes place immediately, as in Booking or other similar services.

3. After the owner has confirmed the request and payment has passed, you will receive an e-mail receipt and detailed instructions with the owner’s contacts and the housing address. An SMS also comes to the phone. Your money remains in the system, and is transferred to the owner only after the first day of your stay.

A confirmation receipt appears in your account

If you have registered for, and your reservation is more than $ 75, then you will receive an Airbnb coupon of $ 25. This amount is reflected after clicking the "Book instantly" or "Request a reservation" button in the "coupon" column, as in the screenshot.

Airbnb first booking discount of $ 25!

We will be very grateful if you register by our link - it’s good for you, but we will have a small bonus from Airbnb. :-) Thank!

That’s all we’d like to tell you about how Airbnb rents out. Soon we will make an article with answers to frequently asked questions. See you and have a good trip!

An alternative to hotels - rental of apartments, apartments and houses - is becoming increasingly popular in the world.
  Arriving in a foreign city, I want to feel the comfort of home. Most hotel rooms, and you will agree with me, can not replace home comfort with a kitchenette, hanging shelves full of pots, drawers with spoons, forks, a sink and a stove.

For example, I prefer to sit in the kitchen than in the living room - everything is at hand: a refrigerator with a supply of drinks and food, a table where you can conduct intimate conversations or watch TV ... They probably understood me.

Advantages of living in apartments

Especially apartment prices for those who come to rest for a long time - I will not hide that it is cheaper, since the products in European supermarkets are several times fresh and varied from Russian ones, and I think to cook steak from not frozen meat or bake fresh fish everyone can.

Accordingly, we save on trips to restaurants, pouring our wine absolutely freely and what is stronger, as well as do not hesitate to smoke at the table.

In the world of travel, there is a need for apartments, apartments from the owners, just as there is a need for owners to rent these apartments, apartments.

How Airbnb Works

What Airbnb has: a database of owners who offer their property for short-term rent, has reviews of those who have already used their services, has a profile of the owner, where he writes about himself, has photos of what the owner offers.

There is also a processing center that accepts money as a deposit, brings us together with the owner and protects the rights of both of us, transferring financial relations into a contractual framework under the contract between him and us: when you book a house, you pay the money, but the landlord only the day after you check in.

That is: if you did not like something and the offer published by the owner on the Airbnb website does not correspond to reality, you have the right to get your money back.

If the landlord violates the agreement and cancels your reservation, you will receive back the entire amount paid + bonus (Airbnb fines the owner and this penalty is your bonus).

Search and Reservation Process

You enter the place (This is a country, city or district) where you are looking for housing.
  You enter the dates you are interested in.
  The number of residents.
  And you get search results - photos of the proposed housing and price.

There are filters: according to the limits of the cost of housing; by type of housing: "house, apartment, bed"; by services: internet, washing machine, parking, etc., etc.

Choose what you like based on the photo? Read the reviews of those who have already stayed there.
  Read about the owner - there is his photo, what he writes about himself and what clients who have already stayed here write about him.

Well, if everything suits: book! To do this, you naturally need a credit or debit bank visa or mastercard.
  Money will be debited from your card, but the landlord will receive it only on the second day of your stay in his apartment or apartment or house.

If you don’t like something, namely: if something differs from the offer that was on the Airbnb website, you can write to Airbnb support and you will be refunded and they will select an alternative housing option for you.

Pitfalls and Cons of Airbnb

The ease with which any homeowner can become an Airbnb partner and get to their base is the reason for a large number of frank crooks and a fool in this base.
  If Bucking.com checks hotels and apartments that fall into the database since both must be legal entities (firms, LLC, etc.), then Airbnb does not do this.

Difficulty contacting customer support.
  I have a lot of positive results from resolving the situation with the Bucking.com support service in Russian:.

It's no secret that anything can happen and no one is safe from jambs. Bucking.com with honor taxied out of all situations: I received an alternative or a refund in hopeless situations that seem at first glance.

Airbnb acted according to the scenario: we’ll wait, maybe everything will go away there by itself.
  I did not receive any help from Airbnb, for example, in a situation when I arrived at the host and found that the previous tenants had extended their stay.

That is, in fact, I ended up without housing in the evening in a foreign city. I had to and naturally no one compensated me for the Airbnb school.

It often happens that people who have booked a beautiful apartment (pictured) in fact receive an uncleaned viper with hair on the bedding with holes, an unwashed sucked toilet bowl and a sink that clogged a year ago that smells of a morgue.

In addition, it’s more convenient for me to book 1-2 days and often change my location - I actively travel to countries. With Airbnb, this (being mobile) is not possible.

My review is about Airbnb.ru, where I often rent apartments while traveling. Find out about bookings, discounts and precautions.

I travel 10-15 times a year and often book accommodation on Airbnb.ru. I like this service. In this review I will tell you how to use it safely and profitably. And by the link below, any new user can get a discount on the first reservation.

What is Airbnb?

Airbnb is the world's largest travel rental service from private individuals. Service statistics: 800,000 housing options, 190 countries, 34,000 cities, over 17,000,000 guests who booked accommodation in this service.

The service works in many countries, there is a version in Russian: Airbnb.ru.

Through Airbnb you can rent apartments, houses, villas, rooms, rooms in guest houses, residential boats and bungalows, castles, tree houses, car campers.

My Airbnb Review: Pros and Cons

I have been using this service for the seventh year and have rented dozens of different homes around the world. In my piggy bank: houses on the Azores, apartments in Prague, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, The Hague, Paris, Rouen, Cana, rooms and rooms in guesthouses in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bMalaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.

What I like about Airbnb:

• Interesting. A huge selection of accommodation more interesting than simple hotels. I try to book authentic apartments with a cool design and preferably in houses with a story.
• Inexpensive. Often renting an apartment on Airbnb.ru is cheaper than renting a hotel room. For example, in France we saved a lot by living in apartments for 28-50 € instead of hotels for 100 €. A family and companies of at least 3-4 people, it is almost always more profitable to book accommodation, rather than hotel rooms.
• Practical. Living in an apartment with a kitchen is very convenient and profitable - you save on food.
• Privacy. I am an introvert, therefore I love privacy: in an apartment and a house that are completely at your disposal, it is more than in hotels.
• Great customer support  in Russian: they work quickly, they always help.
• Convenient system of reviews, ratings and filters  allow you to choose the best accommodation.
• Simple and intuitive website design.
• Safety. You pay with a card on the service website, you do not need to bring cash with you and you do not need to solve financial matters with the owner.
• Suitable for visa. All consulates without problems accept reservations with Airbnb, I received 4 or 5 Schengen for them.

I haven't had a bad booking experience on Airbnb yet. I am completely satisfied with the service, you can only find fault with trifles.

What I do not like:

• Service commission  when renting housing - 10-15%. However, everything is fair, they should earn.
• There is a risk of stumbling upon a bad master. But this is a human factor, service is not to blame. But there is a system of reviews of other tourists about Airbnb accommodation and a support service. Next I will tell you how to choose a reliable host and good housing.

Choose apartments with reviews and a high rating (4-5) - this is a guarantee that everything will be fine with housing. Reviews on Airbnb cannot be faked, so all normal hosts try to please guests in order to get good grades.

Read reviews - people can report important things: for example, the Internet or heating does not work well, noise from the street interferes at night, and so on.

Reliable host:

• has a verified profile,
• many positive reviews,
• long registered on the service.

In case of problems, always write or call support. Once our apartment in France was poorly cleaned, and we had to sweep the floor ourselves, I considered it fair to ask Airbnb to return the cleaning money to us - they returned it on the same day. If the accommodation does not match the description, complain and the service will either give you $ 50-100 discount coupons or provide better and more expensive accommodation in the same city.

About prices

The cost of housing almost always depends on the season: in high season - high demand and prices are 2-3 times higher. I try to travel in low season so as not to overpay.

Airbnb takes a service charge, the amount of which depends on the amount of the reservation - usually about 10-15%.

Often, the owners separately include a cleaning fee, but this amount you will see before booking.

Sometimes the bill includes taxes from the municipality of tourists (in Italy, for example).

In rare cases, the owner can take a pledge for the safety of property - this is typical for solid apartments and apartments, where there is something to spoil, destroy and break. In my practice there was only one such example.

The amount you pay at the time of booking is final. When meeting with the owner, nothing more will need to be paid.

How To Book Airbnb Accommodation

Everything is very simple. Briefly, it looks like this: you go to the Airbnb website, look at accommodation in the right city for the right dates, choose, write off the owner, book, come, live and enjoy. Now in more detail.

Stage 1. Registration

Fill out your profile: add a photo, link to your Facebook page and phone number, write a few lines about yourself - all this is necessary to confirm that you are a real person and to enable future landlords to get to know you. It is advisable to upload a scan of your document to verify your account and make it reliable. This is done for security.

After registration, you can invite your friends and get a new bonus - $ 17 for each friend. Nice and nice discount!

Stage 2. The choice of housing

Now you can do the search for housing.

Airbnb is a convenient and simple service, you can easily figure it out. Enter the required information in the search box: destination, dates and number of guests. A page opens with the available options and their location on the map. There are search filters at the top. You can limit the price range, choose the area, type of accommodation and more.

Open the pages of the accommodation you like. Read the description, reviews, see photos. Compare and choose the best option.

After choosing a home, you can immediately book it or write to the landlord first to ask questions. Do as you prefer.

Stage 3. Payment

For reservations you will need a credit card or PayPal. Payments pass through a secure protocol. Recently, it has become possible to pay half the amount, and the balance - later, about a week before arrival. Before paying, check the dates and number of guests again.

After you book your apartment on Airbnb, the host has 24 hours to approve your application. If he does not, the money will immediately be returned to your card. Once I had it.

The service has a dwelling marked "instant booking" - the reservation is made automatically, confirmation of the owner of the dwelling is not required.

This is a site that allows you to rent housing from local residents of the city that you plan to visit. You can rent a common or separate room, apartment, house or the whole cottage - in general, any place where you can come, leave things and spend the night. To do this, simply enter the destination, arrival and departure dates in the search.

How is Airbnb different from a hotel and hostel?

Hotel is an expensive pleasure. However, the price does not always guarantee quality. And even if you decide not to save on vacation, it is hardly worth giving most of your money to the room where you will appear, only to sleep.

Hostels are another extreme: they are affordable, but you can forget about privacy. One decent hostel has a dozen with terrible conditions in which you definitely won’t feel at home.

Let us dwell on the main advantages of booking through Airbnb:

• The service allows you to rent a house at a price that suits you.
• From the photographs you can study the situation in the apartment and understand whether it will be convenient for you there.
• Hospitable owners (they are also called hosts) will not only show you the apartment, but can also recommend interesting places in the city, meet at the airport, explain how to use local public transport.
• You can rent an apartment for any period: for a weekend in a neighboring city, for a week on vacation, or even for a month or more, to live in another country.
• Payments go through Airbnb, which acts as an intermediary. This means that in controversial situations, you can return your money.
• You can rent a house right away for a group of friends or a whole family. It will not come out so expensive.

All this is wonderful, but there are also disadvantages. You can rent a house located in an uncomfortable area. Or run into scammers who post apartments on the website with fake reviews and photos that are not true.

So that you can avoid such troubles, we have prepared a list of recommendations, following which you will find the option that suits you.

1. Fill out the profile completely

To book your accommodation through Airbnb, you must first apply. A confirmation from the owner is required: until this moment, funds from your card are not debited.

Some owners provide an instant booking service so that the apartment can be booked without waiting for confirmation. Such announcements are marked with a special symbol of lightning.

Sometimes the owners refuse to confirm the reservation. No, not because they don’t need money. Imagine yourself as a landlord: they entrust their apartment to a complete stranger. A half-empty profile in Airbnb without a photo and personal information will not help to establish contact with the owner.

Therefore, add your photo (it is desirable that you look friendly on it) and write a short story about yourself, indicate the age and occupation. If you have already rented apartments through Airbnb, you have positive feedback from previous hosts, then this will be a big plus.

If you often get rejections rather than positive feedback, it’s most likely your profile. Give the host a little more information about yourself and try to impress someone who is not going to destroy his house. :)

2. Explore the area

If you are traveling to an unfamiliar city in a country where you have never been before, look for information about areas on the Internet. And be sure to check the location of the apartment on the map.

Usually people look at beautiful pictures of an apartment and completely forget to check the surrounding area. This is fraught with consequences: you can rent an apartment with an amazing repair in a dilapidated house, which is located in an area where garbage and suspicious persons roam.

So check: go to Google Maps and turn on the Google Street View function: see photos of the building and "walk" around. It is good if there is a public transport stop nearby, a cafe where you can have a snack and drink coffee, supermarkets.

If you are going to a new place in quality, do not rent an apartment two hours from the center: all the most interesting sights are usually located there. Is it worth it every day to spend precious time traveling back and forth?

3. Use discounts and promotional codes

If you are not yet registered on the site, ask a friend who has already rented an apartment via Airbnb to send you an invitation. So you will have a discount of 1,500 rubles on your first trip, and your friend will receive a reward from the service.

Many Airbnb hosts are ready to offer weekly or monthly discounts. Usually they range from 3 to 50% (depending on the location of the apartment, season, popularity of the host). The discount offered is usually indicated immediately after the price.

But this discount does not affect the service fee, which is not negotiable.

Some owners simply do not know that you can set discounts, or do not do it without any reason. Therefore, do not hesitate to ask the host a question about directly, even if the site itself has zero in this field.

4. Compare your host needs and suggestions

I understand all this charm with beautiful apartment photos. But you need to ask yourself not only how cool this place is, but also whether it is right for you.

To answer this question, you must have a clear idea of \u200b\u200bwhat you are looking for. So take a piece of paper and a pen and write down your most important needs. If you need an apartment not just for one night, but to live there for a while, decide what amenities you need.

Do you mind living with a neighbor or don't want to meet strangers in the kitchen every day? Do you smoke? Would you like to invite guests? Do you need internet? Are you going to cook yourself or will you have breakfast in a cafe?

The apartment from the hotel is different in that it makes it possible to feel a little local. Therefore, I want to see in it the same as at home: good internet, a kitchen with a stove, or at least a refrigerator and a coffee maker. The presence of a washing machine is not a prerequisite, but ceteris paribus, I will prefer an apartment with her.

Elena Khrupina, Airbnb user

Compare your needs with the list of amenities that the host offers. Read the list carefully and do not rush to ask questions. The owners do not really like to answer questions, the answers to which are already in the text of the announcement.

Please note that Airbnb will not be refunded for any cancellations made.

9. Leave feedback

After each trip, do not forget to rate and write an honest review. Describe your impressions of the apartment and the owner, cleanliness, repair, location. Write about the pros and cons. This will help not only the following travelers, but also you.

The more reviews the host has, the more trust potential guests have for him. The more positive reviews you have, the less likely you will be refused a reservation.