Go to Marbella in another way: sleeping in a caravan in the mountains
Cheri and Gonzalo make available two beds in their famous tile house in Los Angeles; Jodi rents a guest house on her Seattle urban farm; Eduardo and Raquel offer a stay with a private pool in the Mexican Casa Caracol on Isla Mujeres, designed by Eduardo himself... They say that sharing is living. And in the case of ** Airbnb , you share to live and you live by sharing**.
These are some of the destinations to which we can travel thanks to this system called “collaborative consumption” . And yes, the expression is somewhat grandiose for something much simpler: do not buy; share . Let's put ourselves in context: some friends of San Francisco they began to have problems paying the rent. At that time, a congress was being held in the city that placed the 'full' sign on the doors of all its hotels... And these friends decided to add a couple of mattresses in their living room and offer them for a small price along with a breakfast complete the next morning. Result? Total success (economically and socially) and the birth of a company, Airbnb.
The operation has the best of a social network and the best of a real estate website : not only do you see the practical information and photos of the place, but you can also get in touch with its owners and get the opinion of those who have stayed there (direct connection through Facebook included) . But in addition to private houses, Airbnb expanded its business by locating places to capture on its website where hotels, design houses, reused buildings... Many of these theme options are picked up on calls 'Wish Lists' , the 'wish lists'. And if what you want is to live for a few days in the house where Jim Morrison lived in his last days in the United States... Wish granted!
as it tells us Kay Kuehne , General Director of Airbnb in Spain and Portugal, “I don't buy what I need; I share what I have”. So what is the happiness equation? I have plenty + I share = I meet people + I pay the rent. But it's gotten out of hand for the boys in San Francisco. How about renting a castle? Perhaps, better, a private island? And what if we take over the town of The Smurfs? Or Pocholo's Ibiza home? “We have gone from the inflatable mattress to the castle”, sums up Kay. That said: it has gotten out of hand. The offer of the website has put some 22,000 Spanish properties on the map that offer all or some of their rooms and, among them, we find delicacies in Sao Paulo for €2,700/night (where one of the 'Twilight' saga films was filmed), or apartments for about €40 in the rogue center of The Angels .
The offer, today, is unfathomable. Whether you're a foodie, a palace lord, an architecture nut, a die-hard freak, an adventurer, a restless ass, or a mere mortal, you've got what you need: a designer loft in downtown New York, Tuscan palaces , a selection of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright , a small plane-house , a Bedouin camp , a complete caravan or a comfortable mattress in an apartment in some capital that are waiting for your visit with a restorative breakfast.
We have done a search for the accommodations that we liked the most. Now it's your turn.