Europe Without Hotels

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new kind of short-term rental service called AirBnB.com.

While AirBnB is the largest of these new services, it isn’t the only one. A half-dozen upstarts have emerged in the last two years — with names like iStopOver.com and Crashpadder.com — offering the convenience of a hotel, the comforts of a home and the price tag of an up-market hostel. Call them social B&B networks, or maybe peer-to-peer hotels. Despite the confusing legal issues in many cities surrounding subletting, these new short-term rentals are making inroads into the hospitality industry, with hundreds of thousands of listings across the globe; there are over 3,500 short-term rentals in New York State alone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/travel/18couch.html?src=me&ref=general

[GoneOffShore]

1. We've used AirBnB here in the US

And are AirBnB hosts.

Seems to work well.

Got a single bedroom/Studio apartment on the upper east side of Manhattan for $140 a night.