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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Italian & Worldwide Bed & Breakfast Barter Week

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Sixty countries on every continent offera chance of a free stay and the fun of meeting the owners, a personal relationship. 

I was interested in half a doze places in the UK including the seasisde of Torquay. The novelty of Ukraine, Dnipro.

In the middle East there's oly one in Jordan and none in Israel.


How did it start?

In the dead month of November in Italy the guesthouses offer free or discount night of accommodation in exchange for services or goods that potential visitors can offer.  

You could get a night in Italy, including the islands of Sicilty and Sardinia.

Only one night? Would it be possible to offer your services so that you had four nights, a long weekend, a whole week, or two free nights on a week long holiday?


I logged on and found one artist offering a single watercolour for a week's stay.

A guesthouse was offering accommodation any time of year.


What could you offer?

One website lists goods and services, and towns and areas of participants.

For example

Services

Dancing lessons

Do their website, with an online booking system.

Write or rewrite their literature in good English

Take photos of their property.

Write the menu and wine menu

Do a free booklet of the area which they could give to every guest

Build a children's playground

Decorate the rooms

Sew curtains and matching cushions

re-upholster chairs and sofas

Plant herbs, vegetables and fruit in the garden.

Plan a program of themed dinners and events

Paint the inside

Paint the outside

Create a games room

Paint chessboards on old tables

Mend fences

Print tee shirts and matching baseball hats for the staff and to sell to guests

Print a book of the hotel recipes to sell to guests

Make a travelogue of the area's attractions for the hotel's website

Build an aviary, chicken area, rabbit hutches

Set up an aquarium in the hall and teach staff how to look after it

Create a Japanese style stone garden

Paint a mural on a dead wall

Mark out parking places

Put waterproof and amusing signs all over the garden and outdoor seating area

Create sculptures for the house and garden

Install double glazing

Create scarf uniforms with aprons and scarves in matching colours, such as grass green sea blue or the national flag colours

Make drapes for four-poster beds

Paint murals of sea scenes and trompe l'oeuil of open windows with sea views on blank walls of the restaurant and corridors

Install carpets in the upper corridors

Varnish wooden floors

Re-tile bathrooms

Create a book room, library, reading room and writing room

Draw caricatures of the owners and their pets

Teach English


Goods

Donate Xmas decorations

Paintings

A car or truck or motorbike or scooter

 A piano

A sculpture

Garden urns


Italian - English

alloggiare -stay

approfondisci - read more

baratto - barter

del - of the

oggetto - object

proposte - proposal

settimana - week

vorresti - would you


English - Italian

barter - baratto

object - oggetto

of the - del

proposal - proposte

read more - approfondisci

stay - alloggiare

week - settimana

would you - vorresti


https://www.barterweek.com/en/country/united-kingdom


Countries



UK

I found some charming properties in the UK, some of which offered year round free accommodation.


Websites

UK

https://www.barterweek.com/en/country/united-kingdom

WORLDWIDE

https://www.facebook.com/BarterWeek

https://www.settimanadelbaratto.it/en/

https://www.203challenges.com/barter-week-how-to-sleep-for-free-in-bbs-around-the-world/

https://www.settimanadelbaratto.it/en/how-to-take-part-in-barter-week

ITALY

https://www.bed-and-breakfast.it/en/

UKRAINE

https://www.barterweek.com/en/bb/fish-andrey-hostel-dnipro-dnipropetrovsk-oblast-ukraine/2076


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