Tell Your Friends! Even though we have over 100 members, we want to continue to expand in many parts of Mexico and to facilitate lots of people getting on and starting to travel and to generate stories about what their great travel, exchange and hospitality experiences. To make this happen, we have extended the FREE INTRO PERIOD for the rest of 2008. We really want you to feel comfortable telling your friends and acquaintances about the network and encouraging them to get on and try it out. Feedback from enthusiastic new members has led us to believe it’s just such a new concept for so many people that we need to make it free for some time more so people can try before having to pay for membership.
Through Dec 31, 2008 you can still join for one year FREE. After that membership will be $40 a year—the cost of one night in a moderate hotel, saved over and over as you travel and with mexicohospitality.com.
We Need Your Stories!
We think this is the most important next step in our development. We want to hear from all you folks who have actually tried out an exchange or hospitality visit—as soon as you do. My husband and I have just returned from visiting members in Mazatlan and Baja and staying in homes in San Diego of members of an international hospitality network.
What a joy to meet these interesting people, see their lovely homes and learn of their towns and regions from them! We’ll be writing about the whole trip.
Three Places to Share Your Experiences
- Comment on experience with a homeowner: At the bottom of each member’s listing, there is a link titled: “Comment on your experience with this homeowner”.
Feel free to tell about your visit to this house and area. We hope to keep these comments relatively positive. You may add small details that should be taken into consideration in visiting this home such as: “there are 350 steps to the front door; you have to be in fairly good shape.” Or the guest bedroom and bed are very small—might be fine for some but not for over 6-footers.” Please be careful not to criticize in a way that will hurt the member personally or damage their place in the network.
- If you have genuinely serious negative input that you think we should know about, use the “Contact Us” feature on our website, mexicohospitality.com, to let us know about serious shortcomings in the house or in the hospitality. Often there could be a small misunderstanding about what is appropriate or expected for an exchange or hospitality visit, and a simple exchange with us could clear it up. Most of us are new to this hospitality network idea and the host may not have read every word on the site and digested everything. By the way, let’s all brush up on the courtesy guidelines before arriving, and we encourage a simple written agreement, especially for a longer visit.
- Travel Bulletin Board: We will shortly be adding to the website a page, accessed from the home page, a page where you can tell about your recent travel experiences using mexicohospitality.com—kind of a travel bulletin board. Here you can tell about just a short jaunt with one visit or about a trip across Mexico visiting several homes and members. We hope these stories will begin to really inspire us all to get out there and SEE MEXICO. You can still comment on the individual home and experience on the member’s listing, but this gives you a chance to tell a little more about great finds and experiences in the area and maybe how you arranged your trip and strung your stops together with exchanges or hospitality visits.
