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
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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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