Stay 4 Free
Free: All time (US$60/year membership) If you’re leaving your home empty when travelling, you may want to consider using Stay 4 Free. It’s a site that lets homeowners exchange their homes when vacationing. That way, instead of paying for hotels or hostels, you’ll get to live like locals do in your travel destination, for free....
Servas
Free: All time (Annual membership required; fee varies per country) Amongst all the different hospitality exchange organizations, Servas is the oldest, by far. Founded in 1949 by Bob Luitweiler as a peace movement, Servas International now expands to over 100 countries. It is an international, non-governmental, multicultural peace association that operates through a network of...
Hospitality Club
Free: All time Hospitality Club is based on the same concept as Couchsurfing – hospitality exchange between travellers around the world. Members participate by either hosting passing travellers in their hometowns or being hosted by locals of the place they travel to. Hospitality Club is currently the second largest of such organization. The club is...
Global Freeloaders
Free: All time Global Freeloaders is very much like Couchsurfing, though on a smaller scale since it’s volunteer-run. Sharing the same philosophy of people’s willingness to “accommodate travellers completely at their own convenience, in any way that they can, completely free of charge,” Global Freeloaders has been a hub for travelers around the world to...
Warm Showers
Free: All time Warm Showers Community is a free worldwide hospitality exchange for touring cyclists. Think Couchsurfing but for cyclists only. The community is aptly named for that’s exactly what these cyclists most long for after hours of biking on the road. The concept originated way back in 1993 but it only turned into a...
Sleeping in Airports
Free: All time Well, people usually sleep in airports not by choice, but that is not the case for some. Sleeping in airports have become a way of traveling for those wanting to skim a few bucks off their travel expense. The website “Sleeping In Airports” is frequented by a travel community that has been...
Couchsurfing
Free: All time Couchsurfing refers to the practice of moving from one friend’s house to another, sleeping in whatever spare space is available. An organization based on this term and concept was founded in 2004 and has since been a platform for travelers to either host or stay with others, for free! Your “couch” differ...
