Booking Fees on the XR Rebel Homestay Network

Booking Fees on the XR Rebel Homestay Network

At present the platform charge is approx. £3.60 per person, per night.
Fees are discounted by 50% for any stay longer than 7 nights.
The platform operates at a loss currently.

Human Hotel charges booking fees to help cover the costs of keeping all these great communities and partner platforms running. This means paying to use servers, messaging services, payment processors, host insurance, GDPR compliance 
and anything else necessary to ensure that as many people as possible have safe access to affordable, sustainable accommodation.

We are a small team who are dedicated to the idea that homesharing can be a powerful force for change in the world. We're doing the best we can with our limited resources to create fairer alternative to big booking sites and keeping our fees as low as possible - because cost should never be a barrier to anyone.

The funds raised during the April 2022 Rebellion will go towards supporting all of the work and development we have done over the past year. After this, fees will be removed from all those hosts who are offering space in their homes for free.


Why we need to charge booking fees:

  • The aim of creating this network is that it becomes sustainable in the long term and able to support XR actions and meetings anywhere in the world through homesharing.

  • In order for this to happen it needs to be on a sustainable footing, covering its costs, which would mean a small fee for each booking.

  • As the platform moves towards sustainability with more bookings, more guests, and more hosts all over the world, we will be able to reduce these fees.

  • If there is a need for waiving the fees then that is something that is possible. Human Hotel are keen to ensure that no one is excluded on the basis of the platform fee and so are working on a solution to make that part of the information for those booking - please contact michael@humanhotel.com if you feel this is applicable to you.