Opinions on Sportihome, reference for sports travel
Finding a spot where to practice his favorite sport, ideally located accommodation and hosts sharing the same sporting passions is now possible with sportihome . Simple and playful, this new platform allows travellers to compose their stay on the map and ensure a sporting holiday in their image in just a few clicks. Thanks to its large community, many spots are listed around the world, GPS point retailers, photos and descriptions.
With 60 sports activities identified to date, Sportihome, much more than a simple housing sharing service, allows you to explore spots shared by the sports community, to discover accommodations according to your sports, but also to book accommodations with passionate sports hosts. With Sportihome, guests and travelers have the opportunity to live together their passion for outdoor sports, all ages and levels.
But how do you use Sportihome? What are the pros and cons? The Wanderlix editor looked at all these questions: reviews and tests, this is our Sportihome magazine.
Test Sportihome
What is Sportihome?
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Created in 2017 by two kitesurf enthusiasts — Fred Diaw and Sylvain Morel — Sportihome is a community spot guide, combined with a rental accommodation site for sports enthusiasts of all kinds. Available in 4 languages, the affinity platform aims to federate a community from all over the world, offering the ideal environment for the practice of their favourite sports. A clever social innovation allows guests and travellers to define their expectations according to 3 levels of sharing:
- Stay : host
- Share : host and advisor
- Play : host, advisor and practice together
With a selection of accommodations ranging from 10 € to 1000 € per night in more than 38 countries, sports travellers are sure to find THE place that looks the most like them. And always with the aim of offering the best to visitors, sports equipment — whether included or not in the price of accommodation — can be offered by guests.
“We want to offer a unique 100% sport universe through innovations and strong partnerships with the sport ecosystem”
Today, Sportihome is a partner of more than 1,000 000 French athletes. But it is also more than 100,000 members, 10,000 hosts, 60 sports and about 3,000 shared spots. Surfing, paragliding, mountaineering, riding, or mountain biking, activities are not missing. The opportunity to discover new places and make new meetings.
How does it work?
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Relatively intuitive the online site and mobile site have a quick grip. Find your new playground in 3 main steps:
- Select a sport
- Refine your search with filters (date, location, number of travellers etc.)
- Book accommodation according to the desired level of sharing
You can choose according to the available sports equipment on site and the level of host sharing. Guests with maximum commitment, the Stay Share Play level, will be able to share with their travelers a sporting event. Nothing better to benefit from the advice of local practitioners!
Benefits and disadvantages of Sportihome
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Benefits
- Simple and intuitive use
- Possibility of sharing his passions
- Source of inspiration for sports trips
- Discover new practice sites
- Provision of sports equipment in housing
- Good customer follow-up by a team based in Montpellier
- Sportihome ranks n°1 in category "Holiday rental" on Truspilot
Disadvantages
- Choice of housing still limited abroad
How to become a host on Sportihome?
The Sportihome experience seems cool to you and you want to be from the part in Host ? The following are the three main steps:
- Create an ad for free
- Sign up for free and quickly - Describe your accommodation - Cite practicable sports nearby – Provide the available sports equipment - Illustrate all with your most beautiful photos
- Easily manage bookings and availability
- Receive requests by email or sms - Establish a first contact with travellers via email – Maintain your Sportihome calendar automatically with external calendars thanks to the synchronization function
- Quick and simplified payments
Finish the inconvenient discussions about money! Sportihome allows its travellers to pay online before arrival. On your side, you will automatically receive the payment within 48 hours.
Become Host on Sportihome
Sportihome: the opinion of the editor
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Sportihome is sports, spots and especially sharing in all its forms. By highlighting the rental of accommodations in relation to the passions of each, the site promises a user-friendly and enriching experience.
Sportihome is the ideal partner for the organization of a sporting holiday with a lot of emotions.
If the site offers a new way to travel, by integrating the sharing of experiences and sports adventures to collaborative accommodation, it deserves to gain further visibility so that people and travelers find their happiness more easily.
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