Sleeping with strangers: couchsurfing and other frugal options
Check out travel blogger Michelle Deal-Zimmerman's take on two hotel alternatives sites, airbed.com and couchsurfing.com. Would you be willing to sleep on a stranger's couch to cut travel costs?
I have a hard enough time making small talk with people I know, and I have to talk to strangers all the time for my job, so incorporating this into my time off doesn't seem that inviting to me. I'd also be worried about being inundated with requests if I lived in a popular, pricey destination such as New York City.
