What is the furthest your guests have travelled to stay in your home?

[Quincy]

Hello everyone, 

We've all hosted guests from all places around the world, and it is fascinating how far one will sometimes travel for a well-deserved vacation or perhaps a family/work visit. 

I'd probably say that the guests that travelled a great distance to stay at my home, would probably be the guests I had from China who were flying from the most eastern part of the country. They flew all the way to Edinburgh to visit their daughter, who was studying there. 

I've also had guests from the United States, India, South Africa. Most of them were coming for sightseeing/visiting friends, and some for business purposes.

What is the furthest your guests have travelled to stay in your home?

I look forward to seeing your replies.

Quincy

[Laurelle3]

@Quincy I have been only operating since November last year and with Covid. When guests have been able to travel the furtherest has been Victoria our nearest state. Overseas travellers locked out and we are not in the usual tourist area for overseas guests.

[Colleen253]

@Laurelle3 Kind of the same here. We started  not long before the pandemic began, so we haven’t had a lot of experience with guests traveling a long distance to stay here. If we ever start getting them again, it’s going to be an adjustment, but an exciting one!

[Quincy]

Ah yes, I remember that @Cathie19 also mentioned that some states were closed in Australia. Is this still the case? 

[Beth80]

@Quincy  I had a young man from Latvia.  He was touring South America. Another couple from Egypt doing a documentary.  Always interesting to have guests from afar. Boa Vista isn't a tourist spot , you have to want to get here!

[Quincy]

That's very interesting, indeed @Beth80! Perhaps it was a part of the documentary? 

[Beth80]

I wish! That certainly would have increased my profile.  🙂

[Jessica-and-Henry0]

@Quincy 

Pre-covid we hosted a lot of exchange student guests..... from Arizona (US), France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Singapore. Except for the 2 guests from Singapore, all the other exchange student guests were coming to Asia for the first time 🙂 We always had fun showing them around the neighborhood, introducing new food, teaching them to use chopsticks...... Henry even took a few guests to school on their first day (orientation) 😆 

[Quincy]

That's lovely @Jessica-and-Henry0! 😃 I love that you show them around!

[Sarah977]

From New Zealand and Prague to the west coast of Mexico.

[Robin4]

@Quincy 

Not sure about the furthest, but possibly one of the most unusual. Although I have mentioned this before, it is maybe worth repeating.

In 2017 I had a booking request from Lee from South Dakota in the US to come and stay for a week. He was travelling alone,  was to fly in from the west coast of the US, stay here for a week then hire a car and drive to Sydney and then fly back to America. Although he was fully verified, there was nothing on his profile except one wish-list item, and that was to stay at our property.....

Seemed a bit strange that someone would come all that way with only one thing on their agenda. I accepted Lee's booking and we had a nice week here, he was just a down to earth guy from the Black Hills of Dakota.

At one point I asked him the reason for coming all this way and he told me, his wife was an ultra marathon runner. She had been out training one day, was struck by a vehicle and never came home. Lee was inconsolable with his loss and each year he goes to a property he thinks his wife would have liked......and in 2017, it was ours!

Cheers.......Rob

[Quincy]

That's heartbreaking @Robin4. 

[Robin4]

@Quincy 

Yeah Quincy, it was heartbreaking, he didn't want to talk about her but, be did! He had lots of photos of her with him. He keeps close to him a placegeters medal she was awarded for her participation in the 'Avenue of the Giants' marathon through a state park in California in 2010.

We had a hug and a cry together, I sank another red and he another bourbon whisky. Although he tried, he never managed to convert me to bourbon....no me convert him to red!

At the end of the week, I am sure we each felt our lives were the better for having crossed!

Quincy, it takes Airbnb to be able to do these things, we have had a few heartbreaking moments here....but we have had some remarkable wonderful moments as well, all of them as memorable as each other.....some of them I have told here on the CC before.

It just needs the right question to bring them out!

Cheers........Rob

[Elaine701]

Most of our guests are European, yet we've had them from all over the world. That was before the pandemic, though. Now it's almost exclusively European again. 

Previously we've had guests from:

China, Australia, NZ, Mexico, US, Canada, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Abu Dhabi, Russia... Probably missing a few... 

[Quincy]

That's a wide variety of countries you've got there @Elaine701!

[Elaine701]

@Quincy 

Yes, well, Mallorca is a globally popular tourist destination. They come from all over.  But it's mainly Europeans right now. Intercontinental travel still hasn't returned to pre pandemic levels.