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From TIME Magazine
Where the Hospitality Is PricelessBy Carolyn Sayre
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Forget the falling dollar. All that penny-pinching tourists need to travel the globe is a willingness to try something different and access to a new breed of travel website.
Some of these electronic bulletin boards, known as hospitality-exchange sites, hook up travelers with locals who don't mind having someone stay in an extra room, crash on an empty couch or even pitch a tent in the yard...
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Morgan Lindqvist, 25, of Jonkoping, Sweden, surfs a couch in Las Vegas, Nevada |
Divan Intervention
By Terry Ward
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, March 11, 2007; P07
Why pay for a hostel? With CouchSurfing, you can find a bed -- or at least a sofa -- for free.
Sure, there were cathedrals around every corner, interesting museums and hostels full of Australian backpackers keen to get their party on. But for University of Pennsylvania student Jim Goldblum, who spent the autumn of 2005 backpacking around Europe while studying abroad in Spain, something was missing...
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Couch-surfing, ridesharing and other inexpensive spring break travel options
By Jenny Bergen For the Camera
Friday, March 21, 2008
The waves crash beside you as you lay on the warm sand sipping a chilly piña colada. No spring break could be better -- that is, until you find your credit card is maxed out and you're stuck in Mexico washing dishes to pay for your exorbitant trip.
The price of airlines, hotels and rental cars can be what turns an ideal spring break into an unrealistic vacation. If the cost of traveling is keeping you from getting out of town as spring break approaches, there are a few alternatives that allow traveling without dipping into your savings account...
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Photo by Marty Caivano
Jack Anderberg, right, and Nico Blevins play a game of chess at Blevins’ Four Mile Canyon home in February. Anderberg and Blevins connected through CouchSurfing.com, a Web site that allows people all over the world to find a free couch to sleep on. He got along so well with his hosts that Anderberg eventually moved into the house permanently. |
'Couch surfing' takes crashing with a friend to a new level
by Kim Schneider | Traveling Coach
Saturday March 22, 2008, 3:20 PMYou can't beat the price--nothing for a room, or at least a place to crash in exotic, and not-so-exotic locales. But the purpose of the CouchSurfing Project goes well beyond budget travel. Its stated mission is to be the last authentic travel experience, one that creates a better world "one couch at a time" by bringing people together and creating intercultural understanding.
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Network connects travelers to free couches worldwide
By SUSAN OLP
Of The Gazette Staff
April 8, 2008
Megan Longenecker and her friend Erin Brinkman sat around Megan's kitchen table Monday night chatting with the five members of the Shackeltons, an indie band from Pennsylvania, like they were old acquaintances.
Except that Longenecker, 25, and Brinkman, 24, just met the group the night before, and the musicians would be leaving the next morning for Washington. They connected through an online network, CouchSurfing.com, a nonprofit organization with a half-million members worldwide that seeks not only to help members find a free couch to sleep on but also to meet all kinds of people...
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Going Local
Vicky Baker
April 11, 2008 10:21 AM
"Hospitality Club? Pffft!" says Raul, waving his hand dismissively. "No one ever responds, or if they do it's just to say they are too busy to help. And, not only that, it's ugly too. No colours."
Raul is a Couchsurfer through and through. This week, I became just one of many travellers to have made a temporary home on his sofa in Colombia's second city, Medellin. Like many firm believers in hospitality tourism, Raul lists himself across the movement's two biggest sites, Couchsurfing.com and HospitalityClub.org. His loyalty, however, lies firmly with the former...
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Travel network ... Vicky Baker meets the locals in Colombia |
Your sofa or mine?
Free local digs help Couch Surfing reinvent hospitality
by MICHAEL-OLIVER HARDING
PAI, THAILAND
Organizations aiming to revolutionize the way people travel are sprouting up faster than frat boys at a Full Moon Party, but the four-year-old non-profit Couch Surfing (CS) is taking intercultural exchanges beyond your token social networking tool. The Web-based initiative facilitates connections between like-minded travellers intent on experiencing life abroad at a safe distance from all handicams and fanny packs...
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