Comments on: How to Use the Sharing Economy to Travel on a Budget

By: James McKenzie

James McKenzie — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:46:11 +0000

Recommend house sitting, especially there’s a site called Trustedhousesesitters which is helping us travel all over the world and stay in really great places for free looking after pets. You get to meet the owners and their friends and enjoy living like a local in cool communities. Definitely money saving. Good for spontaneous travel too.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 01:31:12 +0000

Good list – glad to be able to check out some alternatives to airbnb which I think has become much too commercial and rates are equal to or in some cases higher than hotels.

Will be giving couch surfing a go later this year but note with interest they have now introduced a fee option as well for hosts

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 09 May 2015 01:49:12 +0000

Thanks Matt, this article helped shed some light on these websites I knew nothing about. Upwork is also a great “sharing economy website” If you have a digital project like website or app, instead of getting a company to do it, why not hire a freelancer instead! They are much cheaper and you don’t have to pay the other run off costs associated with a company. Also good if you are a freelancer as you can travel and work!

By: Rashad Pharaon

Rashad Pharaon — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:04:35 +0000

Wow, I definitely hadn’t heard of a LOT of these websites – thank you! Camping your way around Western Europe seems like a really fresh way to do the well-worn circuit. I also had a friend who cycled Europe and used CouchSurfing the entire time – she only paid for a hostel 2x in 3 months!

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:42:33 +0000

This goes well beyond the usual Couchsurfing, Craigslist , etc recommendations in posts like this … Eatwith sounds AWESOME, and while I’ve known about AirBnB for a while now, I’ll be using it when I get back to Canada for sure!

By: Joel Stephenson

Joel Stephenson — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:03:33 +0000

Great advice! Couch Surfing is pretty amazing. Wherever you go, even my small village in England, there seems to be somebody willing to host you. Workaway.info is pretty amazing too, if you are willing to work for your accommodation and food.

By: Michael Matti

Michael Matti — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 20:41:08 +0000

Good to know as I plan a two month trip to Europe for this spring. I was planning on using couch surfing and AirBnB but now may have to look at some of these other sites too.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:29:47 +0000

Thanks for this post Matt. As I’m from Britain, although I live in Germany LOL, I have heard of some of these websites however, “Eat With Locals” and “Get a Personal Tour Guide” sounds great and something that I could look into in the next few months.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:52:02 +0000

Matt, just want to say thank you for posting these awesome options for budget travel. These tips could make an enormous difference in my ability to travel long term. Thank you!!!

By: Cyra

Cyra — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:37:59 +0000

Wow, there is some great information in this post. I was aware of quite a few of them but Vayable is a new one to me. I am going to have to check that out.

I actually booked my first Eat With dinner the other day, it’s for next week so I haven’t tried it out yet. But I will be in a city on my own, so I decided it would be a good opportunity to try something new!

Incidently this same city i will be staying in a room from Airbnb. 19 euros for a private room instead of the 30-40 euros that hostels were charging for a bed in a dorm! I do love Airbnb.