Hospitality club (HC) is an online community of people who love helping other travellers out in many different ways. This website is the impoverished, but more idealist brother of Couchsurfing (as mentioned earlier in this blog).
The core function of the website is to give other travellers a place to rest their weary heads after long travels through strange countries.
People register on the website and after they are approved can both go to stay at other people's houses and have people stay at their house.
This is very similar - and older - than the popular Couchsurfing.
The difference between Couchsurfing and HC is that HC is less commercialised and is very basic. This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
Ideologically, HC is more pure than Couchsurfing because it stays true to its core function as a hospitality website, wheras Couchsurfing is more aimed towards events.
The downside is that the website was designed by an amateur webmaster many years ago and it has not been upgraded since. Sometimes this means the website is slow or does not work. It is also very unattractive and the search function is extremely limited.
What it does do better than Couchsurfing is the forum where people can talk to eachother about almost anything. Of course this does mean a meeting of the minds.
Although the membership base is getting smaller (due to website dilemmas) it is still and excellent community full of like-minded people who just want to help a brother out.
The way to use the website is simple - you register, contact members and stay at their house for free! There is no membership fee, there is no obligation for you to reciprocate if you don't have the time/facilities/will.
This will save you a lot of money.
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