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HOW TO FIND A HOST ON COUCHSURFING FOR EVERY TRIP // All the tips you need to know to get hosted on Couchsurfing every time you want to.
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[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Hey guys please let me know if you found the tips useful, if they are things that you already know or if there are some elements that I forgot. Thanks! If you found this video useful you shouldn't miss this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoe7lqp8h7eontk

[@MilanRanaa]

Very helpful video. I have used these tips and it worked. I got hosted for the first time without any reference.

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

I'm very glad, good job!

[@reneeltc]

Nice color! Great video as usual. CS should seriously feature your videos. There are so many copycats hunting for free hotels on CS. I just wonder what these people think of themselves and why in hell I should host them. haha

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Thanks my dear! (I was wondering all the time: “isn’t the color too much..?” 😂) Still, there are people who answer to my videos asking me why I don’t just copy and paste the same request to many people. They are usually the same people who complain about the verification price, cause they cannot find a host within the maximum of 10 requests per week...

[@reneeltc]

@@WhatashameMaryJane Oh I didn't know there is a limit. So you can only send 10 max requests per week?

[@burakoz50]

Congratulations for growing up!! You’ve over 1.000 subscribers now and I hope you’ll get more!! Thanks for sharing tips

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Awww thank you for noticing Burak!!! So happy 😊😊😊

[@gurusevikadasi108]

Excellent video Mary Jane, like always! Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us. You helped me so much about how to write the perfect request. Thanks to you I got two hosts in one day, though I am a total beginner on the site. Thank you very much again! Have a safe trip :)

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Hi Emily! I'm so happy I could help! Did you get them with zero references?

[@gaurangabehappy]

@@WhatashameMaryJane I have one personal reference, five photos and 6 friends. I tried to complete my profile nicely and I still add to it.

[@perseoeridano4182]

This channel is awesome!

[@TheCouchsurferviking]

I love the way you say category. Great video, maybe I will put it on my couchsurfing profile :)

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

You mean the wrong way?? 🙈🙈🙈 That's so embarrassing, I didn't even question that the word is "caTHegory". Good to know for the future, at least. Thanks man, I watched your last vlog, keep it up!

[@princeasif1533]

Very informative videos thanks

[@thiagomarreirotomaz3081]

Thanks for the tips. Congrats from Brazil! :D

[@abderrahimsaid6653]

Thanks for this great video Hi Mary I'm Abderrahim from the desert of Algeria, south of Algeria, in the city of Adrar from northe africa I am in couchsurfing to get new people and new friends from other cultures and to exchange experiences and develop tourism in my country, Algeria. I would be happy to know you and always welcome you to the desert of Algeria welcome in algeria

[@elisabettamorandini4546]

Fantastico non sapevo di queste opzioni

[@NikoLipsanen]

If you are in a rush or running out of free requests, send request to someone who has lots of recent references from surfers. That means that he/she is actively hosting and is more likely to take also a new guest. This I tell as an active host in Helsinki. I don't, however, mind that much if my guests don't have references yet. Somewhere one has to start. If you don't have references, look for hosts whose surfers often mention in references that he/she was their first host. That often means that the host takes guests without references. One good way to start couchsurfing is to go to some less-visited place where hosts are just waiting that someone would finally come to their town and not start one's luck first in some big tourism hot spot where hosts are overwhelmed by requests. That way you can get your first references and perhaps have more chances in some more popular places.

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Awesome tips and I endorse each one of them, very valuable. Thanks for the contribution Niko.

[@valentinamattoni5445]

I truly love you

[@riverroad6713]

you're so good

[@elisabettamorandini4546]

Adoro la tua gestualità italiana col tuo inglese top... Molto stile 🤣

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Ahahahahah non ci avevo mai pensato!

[@PInk77W1]

I’m a 60yr old man I have 400 references I ride a bicycle on road trips I have people fighting to host me. LoL. One time I stayed with a guy in grand island NE. He told me he was going on a trip to Chicago and he sent out 50 requests and got no one to even talk to him.

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Yep exactly my point. Sending many copy and paste requests is not efficient.

[@ainulhasanifatihin1673]

I have one question. How to clarify a negatif references when the guest don't stay with us? Please answer me

[@ftsumzeray1279]

thank you mary

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

You're welcome :)

[@tammiepulley1396]

Thank you!!!! Very useful. I'm "over 50" and active. Will this work for me? I would like to travel more, and I would like to be a host in the future.

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Absolutely! There are Couchsurfing members of all ages, even people in their late 70. If you're "over 50", what's the problem? In my last 2 weeks trip in Northern Europe I've had an over 50 host for 5 nights (who I struggled with to keep up with the parties to be honest) and another one who was almost 50 for other 4 nights.

[@vasilijenemanja2008]

Essetial you are my new religion!!!

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

😀😀♥

[@shokhrukhsaydirasulov3265]

Hi, thanks for your information. I have a question, can be guest or host same person next time? If yes, how? Bcz when I want offer them to stay, in the bottom I see "view existing discussion" instead of "offer to stay or host" Can you help me with this problem 🙄

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

I would love to help you but I did not understand the problem

[@matiasarizu9438]

😉👍🏻

[@charlesontere9367]

Hallo...Mary jane l just Downloaded the Couch Surfing l just fill my Profile.....My Names are Charles l have been watching your videos on Couch Surfing they're wonderful kindly kindly assist me on how l can get a Host

[@mahdichaal8756]

Thanks for thid video i want ask you i try to log in they send me to payment .for log in it's important to pay first.

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Hi Mahdi, things have changed for Couchsurfing during the pandemic. Here you find all the info kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZXHo6BprLtlZrM

[@FarhanAli-mq1dw]

Even if you mute the video, I can still point out, look, there is an Italian lady. Also, double the speed of the video.

[@ferocemarcello]

Very nice video! I also live in Germany and use couchsurfing. Which city in Germany do you live in?

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

I'm currently travelling full time so I don't really live anywhere in particular cause I move all the time. I visited Germany last month. Where do you live?

[@ferocemarcello]

@@WhatashameMaryJane Good Question! Or maybe you should ask where I'd like to leave ahah. I am Italian from ancona. During my bachelor's I have been living in Cesena for 3 years. I have been living in Denmark for 5 months, in the meanwhile I explored Scandinavia a lot. Then I've been working for 3 months ans half in Prague and since March 2018 I have been living in Munich, Germany, where I study, though my dream is to move to Norway in one year, after my master's graduation. Pretty messy!

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

@@ferocemarcello Welcome to the confused millennials club! :) What makes you want to move to Norway, rather than other Scandinavian countries, if I may ask?

[@ferocemarcello]

@@WhatashameMaryJane Well, in many social aspects, they are similar. I like Norway more for some reasons, though I'd be glad to move also to Denmark or Sweden. About geographical aspects, Norway presents much better views and incredible landscapes. Also though being pretty cold there, the wind in the eastern part is not that strong as in Denmark. I like nature and green areas, and Sports, and Norway gives many possibilities for nature and sport lovers. Also I like the relationship Norwegian have with sports and nature ( ex Hytta). I like also that differently than other Scandinavian countries, a vast portion of the market is controlled by the state(ex telenor or statoil). Also i feel Norway a safer place where to move in case of economic or natural disasters, being more isolated of the others. Still, there are many other aspects which I like of Norway, which are in common with Denmark and Sweden

[@dhruvansh5602]

I've a query , I'm a South Indian and I want to visit north India , can I couchsurf with my family??? I'm not a regular Traveller and I don't have any travel account or KZbin or Instagram, this is my first couchsurfing 😨😨😨 can someone gimme suggestion???

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

I think you're missing the point of Couchsurfing. You can couch surf with whomever you want, but you need to have a profile on couchsurfing.com. I have a full playlist of videos that explain how to do couchsurfing

[@ftsumzeray1279]

so nice video best sound than you mary

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Thank you. What do you mean about the sound?

[@MrSaxgirl]

Do you have to hang out with them

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

You don't "have to", it's common sense to hang out with the person who offers you to stay at his place for free.

[@vasilijenemanja2008]

You are so cute, it plasure to listento you, come from Budapest group

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Welcome to our little community! So you're Hungarian?

[@vasilijenemanja2008]

@@WhatashameMaryJane No, I am from Serbia, I saw your post there!

[@freddylubin]

Another way to get to know people is to join CS groups.

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

Hey Freddy, good hint! I totally forgot about that. Thank you so much for contributing!

[@freddylubin]

@@WhatashameMaryJane I appreciate the good work you do. This video came up on a discussion on the Advice for Hosts group.

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

@@freddylubin I'd like to talk in private for a moment, can you please text me either per email [e-mail] or on Instagram @whatashamemaryjane ? Or leave me a private contact if you prefer?

[@vojis]

You should change your title of this Video "Free accommodation". Tips, sharing experience of yours ALL GOOD. But trust me I am CSer from July 2013 and I smell people who JUST WANT FREE ACCOMMODATION - ITS not FREE - its an exchange of values But if you go like hooo hooo its FREE, SAVE SOME MONEY - nobody likes that vibe or maybe some do that dont give a sh*t about life, you and/or people Got that guys? Appreciate it youre already a better CSer than 95% if you feel triggered by my writting ;)

[@kaimanapro5054]

Tip number 1 to be hosted everytime ... Be female 😂

[@lindegirl333]

Very sorry but don’t think that couch surfing is a good idea for a woman alone to do....taking a risk with your life is a very foolish thing to do to save money.....🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@WhatashameMaryJane]

1) You take a risk with your life every time you drive a car or you cross a street. 2) I made a very thorough video called "Is Couchsurfing safe?" that is a guide to minimize the risks of surfing couches, especially as a woman. 3) Couchsurfing is not only about saving money. It's a mindset, a lifestyle, a way of connecting with other people and other cultures.