FREE ACCOMMODATION AROUND THE WORLD?

from Great Bridge Links News

One thing about bridge players - sooner or later in their bridge playing lives they will need to travel. Here's a neat new service most bridge players will find very interesting. It's a web site/database that tracks people of like mind and interests willing to put up a guestroom in exchange for credits. You earn a credit for letting another member use your guestroom and you use the credit to stay in someone else's guestroom. Imagine. You are planning to attend a regional in Montreal so you call on the database which lists all the bridge players in Montreal with guestrooms and voila! You find a place to stay - and here's the kicker - for $4 per night! OK that's USD but still - what a deal.

Now, you don't get food, or entertainment, or taxi service. But you do get a bed and in a space equivalent (there's a rating system) to the one you left at home and with people that play bridge - or golf , or eat kosher or whatever your interest/needs are at the time - it's up to you.

Guestroom Network is a network of people who host each other in their guestrooms at no charge as they travel locally or abroad.

A great idea for our bridge community.

Click on any FREE ROOMS button (or the Guestroom Network graphic above) and read more about this unique new service.

AND REMEMBER:

In order for other bridge players to find you, be sure to type BRIDGE in the "Special Interests" spot.

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We are going to promote this network like crazy for the Vancouver BC Regional in January 2002. If you live in the Vancouver - Richmond area, and are interested in putting up your 'guestroom' for visiting bridge players, go to the Guestroom Network and sign up!

PS - The Guestroom Network has a very serious Privacy Policy - your email addresses and privacy will be treated with utmost respect.

Dear Jude - your tidbit announcement about the "guestroom'network is of great interest. 20 years ago my wife and I lived in Williamsburg Virginia and belonged to a similar "sharing" club, not bridge related, and before the internet was even a glimmer. We swapped our home with couples in Atlanta, Washington DC and Toronto so we could go to the regionals and the 1978 Toronto National, with no hotel costs. That was a little more difficult, since we had to find someone who wanted to come to virginia at the exact same time we wanted to be in their city. This new concept is even better. Now you can find a place to stay while the hosts are there, and all you need to do is provide your own residence later for someone else. Terrific! Please let me know who is doing this. I am VERY interested.

Bill Slepin, bridgepro.net

G'day Jude, If you have an email address so that I can put my Sydney home on these people's list, please reply!

Regards, Peter Gill, Australia