Inside look: Superhost appreciation party

[Airbnb]

Caption: Airbnb co-founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk attended the party to congratulate the 12 Superhosts and their guests in person.

Achieving Superhost status is an incredible achievement, one that represents standout hospitality, responsiveness, and attention to detail. Meeting that high bar is a huge win. Continuing to meet that high bar is even more impressive.

In fact, fewer than 4,000 people have maintained consecutive Superhost status since the program was introduced five years ago. That’s some 60 months of zero cancellations and five-star reviews. At Airbnb, we decided that merited a party.

In March, we invited 12 of the most tenured Superhosts to Airbnb headquarters in San Francisco, California, to celebrate their hosting success. A sign greeted them at the event: “You’ve hosted the world. Now it’s time for us to host you.” That says it all!

Take a look at some photos of the party, below, and stay tuned—this event was so much fun, we plan to host more Superhost celebrations in the future. In the meantime, thank you to all of you who are Superhosts.

Caption: Airbnb employee Johanna Desbordes welcomes Superhosts and their guests to Airbnb headquarters in San Francisco.

Johanna gave out Superhost pins and nametags and led the group on a tour of Airbnb headquarters, which includes meeting and conference rooms modeled after actual listings. Johanna was the perfect person to act as tour guide: She and her husband, Gian, are Superhosts themselves, and they first met when Joh was a guest at Gian’s home in Italy 7 years ago.

Caption: Superhost Kitty stands outside her home away from home.

Does this look familiar? Superhost Kitty and her husband joined hands above a replica of their Airbnb listing, a “mushroom dome” cabin in California, on the fourth floor of Airbnb’s San Francisco headquarters.

Caption: Co-founder & CPO Joe Gebbia; Co-founder, CEO, and Head of Community Brian Chesky; Superhost Mary Sledd; and Co-founder, CSO, and Chairman of Airbnb China Nathan Blecharczyk.

All three of Airbnb’s co-founders joined the event to congratulate and thank the Superhosts.

Caption: A Superhost with her customized guest book.

The Superhosts received personalized guest books as a gift and thank you.

Caption: Superhost Janna (left), receives her customized guest book from Airbnb’s Laura Chambers, who leads the team that looks after homes hosts and Superhosts.

Caption: Superhost Ash shows his personalized guest book to Airbnb’s Joe Gebbia and other guests.

[Hyacintha0]

My name is Hyacintha Allen, and I've lived in the amazing state of Alaska for 30 years.  I have been doing airbnb for 3 years, and I absolutely love it.  It has been a marvelous experience working with Airbnb, and I haven't had any problems with the staff or guests.

It is so cool that you honor your superhosts that help your company to thrive.  I have been building my buisness consistantly, and with integrity.  I hope to be able to remain on the super host list for a long time to come.

I will work really hard to provide a comfortable place for my guests to rest, and experience the awesome adventures of Alaska.  Hopefully, one day I can be recognized for my hard work too.

Congratulations to all the super hosts that were recognized.  You deserve it, and keep up the good work my friends.  You are welcome to come visit us in the Land of the Midnight Sun.  Check us out, we'd love to have you.

Hyacintha

[Helen427]

@Lyn87 @Edreen0@Jane & Paul @Beverley & Tony @Logie0 

Nice to see fellow New Zealander's lurking in CC..

Yes let's hope for a visit from ABB crew later this year, preferably in early summmer when our spring lambs & calves & flowers are at there best..

[Dale106]

Fantastic to see these Superhosts rewarded for their excellent hospitality skills.

Well done! Congratulatuions to you all

Dale

[Rosie100]

Impressive!!

[Noel112]

Congratulations to all

[Julia64]

Congratulations 🎉 amazing effort!

[Kai115]

Wish if there’s a hosts union and gathering party in the near future, that would be something really called achievement I would.

[Vincent449]

cool

[Gurmeet0]

Congratulations for this amazing feat, great job. How about second such meet in Asia !!!

[Hau1]

Friendly and hospitable

[Nat76]

Congratulation for the great achievement 

[Jihad1]

Awesome, thank you Airbnb & Congratulations Superhosts.

[Robert1019]

It's terrific work, hosting, and I love seeing the happy faces in my home town, San Francisco.  I now live in Dublin (Ireland, not the East Bay) and am a superhost even while hosting for just under a year.  I finally found what I like to do:  greet people and make them comfortable and grounded in this new place. 

Bravo to your party for the likes of us all.  -Rob

[Jacqueline90]

That's  very awesome. Congratulations to all the superhosts. 

[Anne1036]

Great to see recogniition of the contribution  made by superhosts to the experience of guests using the platform