Frequently asked questions

Feriejo provides an opportunity to stay with a local family for a fee.

It’s an affordable accommodation alternative, ideal for independent leisure travelers of all ages, interns, gap year students, students living abroad and anyone seeking a real and genuine travel experience. It allows them to experience the local community and culture of the place they’re visiting. Our hosts all have their own unique interests and hobbies and guests often find a host with similar interests which further complements the homestay experience. Hosts can help their guests find their feet in a new place, whether it’s help with local orientation or places to eat. It’s also a convenient, value-for-money way to book accommodation when attending an event or conference.

feriejo.com is a global accommodation booking website for people seeking a real and genuine travel experience. It allows you to book a room in another person’s home.

What makes a feriejo so unique is the people. Each property has a host there to welcome guests into their home and offer guidance and assistance during the stay. At the core of the unique property experience is a host being present to welcome the guest into their home. Our guests meet the people from the community they’re visiting and enjoy a genuinely local experience.

• Bookings on Feriejo.com can be made after sending a message to the host to check their availability for specific dates, and once the host confirms that they are available or guest can direct communicate to host at given contact details for further off-line booking process.

feriejo.com offers guests the chance to live like a local and experience what life is really like in that place. They can immerse themselves in the local customs and traditions, practice speaking a foreign language and spend time with the people that really make the place what it is. With their host’s local knowledge they’ll see beyond the usual tourist trail.

Every  homestay is an affordable accommodation alternative. It is ideal for independent leisure travellers or tourists who want to experience the local community and culture of the place they’re visiting, people who are on a short city break and want affordable accommodation, and others who are travelling to an event, wedding stay, gathering, meeting etc. Our hosts all have their own unique interests and hobbies and guests may find a host with similar interests which further complements their property experience.

Host are the independent property owner/manager who have already listed their properties to earn extra income source. Hosts are what make their property experience so unique. They welcome guests into their home and offer guidance and help during their stay. With a host’s local knowledge, guests see beyond the usual tourist trail. Hosts can also help their guests find their feet in a new place, whether it’s help with local orientation or places to eat.

Hosts vary and include young couples, retired couples, families (mother-father-children), single parent families and hosts who live alone.

Hosts will do what they can to make your homestay as enjoyable as possible and provide you with a local authentic experience beyond the usual tourist trail.

Homestays are popular among tourists, gap year travelers, university students, interns, volunteers and language students. Homestays are a relatively new but growing concept for tourists who want to experience the local community and culture of the place they’re visiting, people who are on a short city break and want affordable accommodation, and others who are travelling to an event.

Guests who book homestay accommodation are people from all walks of life. Holiday-goers craving a unique travel experience, culture-hungry volunteers, gap year travelers, students or people attending an event or conference, business meet, gathering, wedding stay etc.

feriejo welcomes people from anywhere in the world to sign up as a host on feriejo.com.

However, you must be 18 or older to host.

If you are renting a property, we suggest you always check your rental agreement and secure your landlord’s permission if required.

You need to ensure your home insurance policy covers accommodating short-term guests within your home.

You may need some additional licensing from local govt. as country to country it’s varies.

You simply register your details with us by clicking on sign up as a host on feriejo.com. You can sign in with existing Gmail, Twitter & facebook account login details. Once you login, you will see your own dashboard to complete your host profile with information about you and your home, including some photos which potential guests can view on the site when choosing a homestay to book.

To start, we recommend that have a look at some of our top picked profiles on feriejo.com to see what other hosts include in their pages.

Now you are ready to complete your very own listing. 

As a host you set and manage your own rates, availability and requests from potential guests. You can also make changes in your profile from your own dashboard account. 

It’s completely free long life to sign up as a host 

The site and services are intended solely for persons who are of legal age (18 years or more) to use this website. Any access to or use of the site or services by anyone under sufficient legal age is expressly prohibited.

By accessing or using the site or services you represent and warrant that you are of suitable legal age.

In terms of your own tax situation, you are responsible for managing your own tax affairs as country to country tax liabilities are different.
We are unable to give tax advice, but would advise that every host should ensure they are managing their own tax affairs effectively to reduce any tax liability they may have.
We would encourage hosts to try to understand their own personal position with regards to tax.
In some circumstances hosts can earn an amount before tax when renting a room or they can avail of a specific tax break scheme, when renting their spare room, such as a ‘rent a room scheme’.
Also please be aware as part of regulatory compliance, Feriejo may be obligated by law to share details with authorities with regards to sellers listed and transactions processed through the platform.

Good internet connection is important for using the site. Try to ensure you have a strong Wi-Fi signal. You could try a ‘wired’ connection by plugging your computer directly into the router.

For optimum performance when using feriejo.com we recommend that you use browsers only: Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer 9, 10, 11. Use the latest version of one of these for the best experience. (If you are a Safari user on a Mac it’s best to download the latest version of Chrome as Safari does not support our website fully)

Yes. You have all contact details of host/property owners to communicate for the purpose of pre-booking. 

If you are near about the property and possible to go and want to visit in person then you can request to host for visit. If they allow to come & visit then it is very much useful to take any booking decision as guest.

Before going in person, we recommend that first you can ask to show entire property on online video call. You can use whatsapp video calling service or any other preferred video calling service which mutually agreed. 

Apart we do not recommend pre-booking visit in single person for the safety reason.