Airbnb instead of hotel

View Quoted Comment But it's multiple room. Would that still be the same?

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This will turn into a nightmare for you, trying to keep everyone organized, who's in, who's out, who to put in the same house...the houses can get cancelled with little notice. I'm with Gretchen, I can check prices and book my own if that's the way I want to go. And, yeah, I probably wouldn't want to share with people I may or may not know. If I knew a bunch of people, I might want to organize my friends or family and go in on one with people I choose, but probably I still wouldn't even then. Don't try to take this on. Most I would do is maybe offer it as an option, along with a list of other hotels in the area.

Also, if you choose to do Airbnb you will have to pay in advance for all those places and then have your guests pay you which could be a nightmare! With a hotel, they can book their own stuff.

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I wouldnt either.

I've been on a spring break trip where I didn't organize the group (I knew everyone though) and had to stay in a condo with them. It was not my favorite. I definitely would not like it if they were strangers.

Thank you for all your thoughts. It definitely helps me I think the best choice is to give them the options.

You can point me in the direction of Airbnb’s but guests need to pick their place and who they’re staying with on their own.

I wouldn’t be offended but I also wouldn’t stay in a multiple room Airbnb with people I don’t know. My husband and I would book our own hotel room or Airbnb. The only exception is we would stay in an Airbnb with a couple we knew but that would depend on the couple (I.e.: we wouldn’t just find a couple also attending the wedding, it would only be a very close friend) and we could do that ourselves. I also think logistically, it will be a nightmare for you having to coordinate who’s staying where and what if it gets cancelled on time and who’s going to check in and how to check in.

Like I’m not upset to book a house together with a group of friends.

But I don’t want to get stuck in a share situation where I end up in a room next to your great aunt Mildred who I’ve never met.

I don't want to share a bathroom with a number of other people, so unless the Airbnb has private baths for each bedroom, I'm out.

Besides the issue of staying with strangers you don’t know, there so the issue of who has keys to the place. With a hotel, people can retire at any time and move about freely. With an AirBnB, if there are limited keys, everyone has to be in a group and that’s what I would hate the most.

Oooh, definitely leave the booking hotels/airbnb to your guests. They will decide where they want to stay for sure! Things would get really complicated/messy if you attempted to take that on.

I agree with others that you shouldn't book the airbnb yourself, but you can definitely scope it out and spread the word to oot guests! Then they can decide if they want to group together with certain people and rent a house or have their own hotel rooms. I believe this is what some of my friends from college will be doing as well some of our family groups.

People might already be considering this on my own. I'm going to a wedding next year and I've already thought about various airbnb options depending on which other friends of mine will be attending.

Thanks for all of the input guys. I will let the guests decide

We attended a wedding in Breckenridge, CO two years ago. On the invitation, it said to check Air bnb or VRBO for housing options. There were no blocks. My FH and I stayed in a huge house with a few other people including his sister/her bf, his cousin/date, his brother (we chose to which I feel is different than someone saying 'hey we rented this huge house for you to stay in with a bunch of other people') If there aren't hotels available in the area, just give people info for other housing options.

Our wedding is a destination wedding and we are staying at a resort since it's also our honeymoon and we wanted something nice. A lot of our guests simply can't afford plane tickets, time off work AND a resort so what we did is post the links to Airbnb and VRBO on our site under accommodations and let them choose.

Me personally? I hate staying in other people's houses so if it were me and someone told me that I would be staying in an Airbnb that might be the decision for me not to travel.

That said, I don't thnk it's rude, but you might want to give options on your wedding website or email people and ask them.