TechCruch have reported that Airbnb is adding to its arsenal and have acqui-hired PhotoBlogging site Dailybooth for an undisclosed sum. Maybe this is more of a talent buyout, but we think that the two companies are perfectly matched to increase or better manage their growing mobile traffic. Dailybooth was founded in 2009 by Brian Pokorny, Jon Wheatley and…
It looks like the purchase of rival CrashPadder a few months back really has paid off for Airbnb. Nathan Blecharczyk, the company’s chief technology officer and co-founder of Airbnb is very pleased that they have over 4,500 bookings over the coming three weeks of the Olympic games! Airbnb also struck a sponsorship deal with the London…
Recently we received an email from a host who had just started up and they asked us what is the average length of stay of a guest. Hmmm, this is something we didn’t know off the top of our heads, but thought it would be a great exercise to find out. We could then answer the question put to us and this would be useful…
We’ve taken a different approach on this post as we wanted to let you know a few things from an airbnb guest professional. Who better a man than our past guest and now our good friend Danny Dover. Danny came to stay with us for a week in May and is a truly inspirational guy. In fact…
Do you know who these guys are? Well you should do as they are the founders of Airbnb. They’re the reason that we’ve had the opportunity to meet so many amazing people from so many nationalities not to mention earning some extra income along the way to help us enjoy life. Their story is inspirational, young guys…
Here is how to quickly and easily set up your Gmail calendar to show you airbnb calendar, and make life a little easier. The reason for needing the second calendar is that we like to ‘take note’ if we have had enquires but the potential guest has not booked yet although it seems likely they will. The airbnb calendar does not show…
T he Holy Grail of a new Airbnb host is how to attract and secure that very first booking. When we started nearly a year ago there were not as many spaces and choice in Barcelona on Airbnb, but nonetheless it was still a little challenging to attract the type of guest we wanted and…
I guess it had to happen sooner or later, it’s the law of averages …We had a very difficult guest who ended up leaving a very bad review. I’m not going to go to much into the problems we had but just to say that this guest had the same room, the same warm welcome…
On Friday we had an email that put us in top form ready for the weekend. It was from Airbnb to let us know that due to our hard work and looking after guests in the way we do, we had been given ‘Super Host’ status. For those that don’t know what this is, ‘Super Host’ is…
It was early days with airbnb and we were delighted with the progress we made in just a month. After the wonderful review from Jan we started to get some enquiries and we had one in from a girl called Andrea who was looking for medium-term accommodation. Although we were interested we thought it may be best to stick…