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Title: Wants to take a vacation but have no $$$ for a hotel???...
Post by: deonchan on April 30, 2009, 05:00:59 PM
No problem just go to Couch Surfing (http://www.couchsurfing.com/index.html)and you're set.

When my bro who just got back from 2 weeks hoping between France and Spain told me about this, I thought he BSing and then I looked it up


Quick reaction - WTF?!

Longer reaction - Well this is kinda cool but how can this even remotely be safe? Especially after the Craig list killer something like this would be a no way in hades for me.

So is this a good idea or a bad idea? Would you use something like this?
Title: Re: Wants to take a vacation but have no $$$ for a hotel???...
Post by: SOawesomeness on April 30, 2009, 06:52:20 PM
That's pretty cool... I think I would use it kinda like Ebay- buy off of the people who have the most positive ratings n stuff so I don't get jipped. And probably with same-sex people.

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Title: Re: Wants to take a vacation but have no $$$ for a hotel???...
Post by: Dagger-6 on May 01, 2009, 01:00:14 AM
They've got a lot of programs like that.  I remember reading about several of them in an article on cheap ways to travel.

I don't remember all of them, but I know one of them you just help work, do some household chores or fieldwork, in exchange for a place to stay.  I think there's another one where you're obligated to provide housing for them on a trip to your area, like wife swap, only with houses.  Okay, bad example.
Title: Re: Wants to take a vacation but have no $$$ for a hotel???...
Post by: Sunara Ishi on May 01, 2009, 01:44:54 AM
I don't know... Seems too easy to exploit. You might find yourself sold off to some sex den.

I didn't know there was a Craig's List killer. X.x; Scary.