Booking and signing up on homestayin.com is all free. You only need to pay 10% of the total homestay fee to homestayin.com to confirm your booking. Before you make a booking, guests should contact the host to check if they are available to host them for specific dates and can only proceed onto making a booking once the host has confirmed that they are available to host during those days. You must pay 10% of the total homestay fee as a deposit to secure the booking, and the remaining 90% will be paid to the host directly. Our system will send a booking confirmation e-mail with the details of the host including their exact address and contact details once the booking is complete.
Check availability
Our hosts take bookings every time a guest contacts them through our private messaging system. You can make a booking after sending a message to the host to check whether they are available on the specific dates that you wish to travel.
Choose your destination
Please write in your destination in the search box. If you are searching for a particular landmark in a city, you can write in the name of the landmark and the search tool will find you hosts that are nearby. Our host database encompasses hosts from hundreds of nations across the 4 continents. In the case you cannot find a host where you wish to travel, please visit us again in the near future as we get new hosts every day.
Filter
Please use the filtering options on our search tool to find a host that suits your needs better.
Map search
Use the map search options within the search results to find a better homestay
Dates and number of visitors
Please choose the check-in and check-out dates and the number of people that are travelling with you.
Choose a room after choosing a suitable homestay
All the prices on the search results are the prices per night. The price can vary depending on the number of guests. Some hosts offer deals for people who are planning long-term stay, so please check for the weekly and monthly prices on the hosts profile.
Contact the host to check availability
Please use our message system to contact the host and check whether they are available on specific dates that you wish to travel. If you have any other questions about the homestay, you should ask the host when you contact them. Hosts are usually interested in the purpose of visit, age, hobbies or any specific requests you may have. You can confirm and secure your booking when you receive a confirmation message from the host that says that they are available to host you on the dates you wish to stay at their homestay. Once the booking is secured, you will receive a booking confirmation letter from our website that includes the specific address of the host, how to get to the homestay and the contact details of the host. When checking the availability of the host, it is wiser to choose and contact a number of hosts to increase your chances of securing a booking around your destination. When sending and receiving messages, our website will send e-mails and text messages to you to let you know that you have new messages. After the host confirms that they are available to host, please push the “Book now” button to confirm your booking. If the host did not confirm the dates of your visit, but asked another questions, you will still receive a notice to let you know that you have new messages. Before confirming the booking, the host and guest can send messages to each other as many times as they want. Sharing personal information such as contact details goes against our website policy. All bookings made outside of our website is not covered by us and we do not hold any responsibilities for them. Please be careful of hosts who ask for additional deposits other than the 10% deposit to us.
Confirm your booking
Once the host confirms that they are available on the dates you wish to travel, you can confirm the booking online by clicking the “Book now” button in the e-mail that we sent you. You can confirm the booking by submitting details about yourself and sending the 10% deposit money. By sending the 10% deposit, you are confirming the booking and we will follow up with your booking by sending you an e-mail that has the host’s e-mail address and other contact details.
Fly off to the homestay!
Please let the host know the approximate time of arrival. In order to verify you are the guest who has made to booking, please take a copy of your ID and a copy of the booking confirmation e-mail that we have send you.
Pay the remaining money to your host
You will pay the remaining homstay fee to your host according by the payment arrangements made earlier with the host. The booking confirmation e-mail has the money that you owe the host upon arrival. Please arrange how you are going to pay the rest of them money before arriving at the homestay. The host and guest should both be clear of how the remaining money is going to be paid before arrival. Please contact the host again if this is unclear or if you need more information.
Write a review of your stay
You will pay the remaining homstay fee to your host according by the payment arrangements made earlier with the host. The booking confirmation e-mail has the money that you owe the host upon arrival. Please arrange how you are going to pay the rest of them money before arriving at the homestay. The host and guest should both be clear of how the remaining money is going to be paid before arrival. Please contact the host again if this is unclear or if you need more information.