Get £38 of Airbnb credit with your first booking as a “business traveller”

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• Boi says:

  1 Oct1 October 08:11

  Still not sold on the airbnb idea. I prefer certainty

  • James F says:

    1 Oct1 October 08:55

    They’re useful for certain types of stays. I’ve used it for places really close to out of the way locations that major hotels may not serve, or where hotel prices seem relatively steep (Newcastle during the Great North Run weekend, Bath), but the certainty of a regular hotel is nice

• Mikeact says:

  1 Oct1 October 08:30

  I was/am, maybe, going to give them a go in Singapore. However, I’ve had correspondence on both sides, “totally illegal in Singapore ” to “no problems at all”.

  • X says:

    1 Oct1 October 16:32

    I’ve used them I Singapore and wouldn’t recommend it, building management had posters up everywhere saying if you see travellers report it to security ect.

    However they’ve been great everywhere else

• Alex says:

  1 Oct1 October 11:00

  I used this twice in August (own and wife’s accounts). I found very cheap options in Poland at less than €10 and used ‘country’ €10 vouchers. As a result both first trips cost €1 each (airbnb minimum transaction). Obviously didn’t go to Poland and didn’t cancel bookings and got my €50 (£40) vouchers next day after “business trip” which we used in our real trip to Ireland.

• xcalx says:

  2 Oct2 October 08:44

  We have an internal garage that was converted into a one bed flat back in 2010 for use by one of our sons and his partner to live while they saved a deposit for their home. It pretty much became a dumping ground for the families junk. So mrs xcalx decided to give the place a bit of a makeover and try Airbnb.

  So mrs xcalx became a host on the 24th August , the next day a guy from New Zealand booked for one week from the 28th . She then had a one day booking (no night required) from a guy doing a gig in Leeds who just wanted a place to relax during the day. This was followed by a booking from a lovely couple who were nearing completion on selling their house and needed a place for 7 weeks while the builders finished their new home. So quite a start and she is booked until the end of October and only had 4 empty nights since starting.

  For a nosey search Morley, Leeds and choose entire home do not enter any dates. Comes up around the £50 mark. Host Helena.

  No prizes for guessing which beach is in the background of host photo.

• whizzbee says:

  16 Oct16 October 11:02

  I used this recently because my employer had (surprisingly!) enabled it for business use.

  Worth noting that the £38 credit for me turned into £42 when booking a personal trip in Canada – not sure whether this is due to exchange rate (i.e. it being stored as, say, $50 in their system) or something else!

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