Airbnb: Travel like a human.
I'm heading to Austin in a few weeks for SxSW Interactive. Looking around for roommates and cheap hotel rooms didn't yield anything, but then I found Airbnb.
Their motto is "Travel like a human," and I think it's a perfect description of the site. You search for a destination and date range like any hotel site, but that's where the similarities end. Instead of cookie-cutter hotel rooms, you're searching individual people's couches, air mattresses, real rooms, and even entire houses that they've posted. Everything is shown on a map, with pictures of the accommodations, rates, and details written by real people.
I showed up at Airbnb hoping to save money, and I'm saving literally hundreds of dollars over the best hotel deal I could find in Austin, but I'm equally excited about the fact that in a couple weeks I'll get to meet Elizabeth, David, and their dog Jake, and in the process spend a few bucks with hospitable human beings instead of the same old hotel chains I've been to a thousand times.
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