Hi everyone,
I hope you're well and that you're all looking forward to the weekend. It has been a while since the last CC social meetup, and so the time has come for one to be held 😊.
Tea, coffee, beer, wine, feel free to join along with your favourite beverage, and perhaps a little snack at hand 🍪
Our next meetup will take place on Thursday 30 June, 2PM (BST - UK time).
Timezones for anyone not in the UK:
Thursday June 30th, 8AM (Pensacola/Kansas City, USA)
Thursday June 30th, 9AM (New York / Toronto, USA/CA)
Thursday June 30th, 10PM (Seoul, KO)
Thursday June 30th, 11PM (Sydney, AU)
Friday July 1, 1AM (Auckland, NZ)
Please click on the link to register: https://airbnb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEud-msrDgiGtZFPcW2lT2jD4kXUPaf_gAi
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Not sure how to use Zoom? Check out this CC guide.
Tagging some of you who might hopefully be interested 👀
@Cathie19, @Lawrene0, @Clara116, @Christine615, @Jessica-and-Henry0, @Ann72, @Roberta2, @Alexandra316, @Debra300, @Yuan100, @Robin4,
I look forward to catching up with you all!
Quincy
New to CC socials?: For anyone new to the socials, it's a monthly online meetup where CC (Community) members come together to connect with each other and have a bit of positivity along the way. It's not specifically Airbnb focused and anyone new is very welcome.
Bruno is getting to be a big boy, but is still very cute. We recently returned to St. Lucia, and although he greatly enjoyed his time in the US, the heat in Atlanta was starting to get to us all. It reached a high of 101F/38C.
One of his favorite places to relax was on an elevated bed above the vent so he could enjoy the cool air. Now he hangs outside on our balcony taking in the pleasant sea breeze.
I really would like to join the Social, but I’m not sure yet, if I can find the time as I’m travelling with my family these days in Italy.
Just returned from Lake Como, where we have stayed as guests in a small old-school B&B. So I took the chance to talk with the lovely host and with other guests, in person:
She says: As soon as she opens the calendar for one of her three private rooms, she gets a booking. So she is fully booked, and we had been lucky to find available accommodation. It’s no Wow listing, just a classic Airbnb, with awesome lakeview from the bathroom. Seems that guests really want to travel again. While she is also listed on another platform, she prefers Airbnb guests (and most of her guests are Airbnb guests), as they seem to be more pleasant, and they know what they want, and she can deliver what guests are expecting (also an excellent breakfast!).
And according to the host, it has been the first time since the pandemic that guests from different rooms join together for a social meetup in person. I took the chance to talk to other guests too. We met a lovely couple from Germany. The girl likes to book through Airbnb, to find shared spaces. I asked her if she noticed the modified booking user interface: “No, everything as usual. Ah no, now I remember, at first I’ve seen some fancy places, but then I skipped to proceed with the usual map search.”
It’s been a great experience again to stay at a shared space, to get in touch with real people. For me as host it’s important to listen to guests and to change from time to time to the guest side, to better understand their needs.
And the second best are these community meetings by Zoom, thank you for organizing!
