Airbnb Just Launched A New All-Inclusive Vacation Service, And Trips Start As Low As $79
Starting today, Airbnb hosts will plan your entire vacation for you. With the launch of Airbnb Adventure, the home-sharing platform has tapped into new and existing hosts with experiences to offer-visiting an oyster farm in Sweden, camping on a cliff in Colorado, or hunting for UFOs in Utah and Nevada, to name a few-and created full itineraries around them, bundling lodging, meals, and activities into one.
Whereas Airbnb Experiences, like sushi making classes, for example, are meant to be added on to a trip, Airbnb Adventures are the trip itself. Vacations start at $79 for an overnight adventure and max out at $5,000 for a 10-night stay (flights are not included). At launch, there are 200 trips offered that are exclusive to Airbnb and stretch across six continents, with more to come in the following months.
Trips are intentionally small with a maximum of 12 guests per group. "Adventures" encompass everything from food to music to camping-related activities: You and your friends or family can spend four days in Jamaica learning how to make chocolate, sail to Napa Wine Country from Berkeley, or go on a Slow Food Safari in the Galapagos. That last trip is described like this:
We’ll visit Monte Mar coffee farm conservation project, harvest ingredients at Huerta Luna permaculture farm, taste fresh ceviche and wild goat, catch fish that we’ll eat onboard a private yacht, and enjoy a tasting menu at Anker Mar to Table, the most innovative restaurant in Galapagos. When we’re not feasting, we’ll kayak, snorkel, paddleboard, hike, sail, and enjoy sugar sand beaches.
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There are plenty of experiences in the U.S., too. Will and Jewel Johnson, an Anabaptist couple from Indiana, are opening their home and renovated barn to guests who want to experience intentional living and a simple life. Stay at their home for a weekend to unplug and learn how to can vegetables, make jam and pies, or woodwork, if you're so inclined. Matt Prindle will take guests foraging for plants and berries in and around Portland, OR.
In sum, if it's off the beaten path, Airbnb wants to take you there.
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