CouchsurfingReviews of couchsurfing.com

Tinder gone bad do not use It’s ok for women to ask for money, however I ask for help or I leave my phone number and I am banned. Ask anyone who used CS and stayed with me, they will say I was very kind. I pity what is left... one day everyone will see it is a sour place to be and I am going to look after me... I got a chargeback and filling in every review...

I joined Couchsurfing in 2018 in a small town in the tropical highlands of Peru. I hosted more than 100 groups of 1 to 6 people, from 30 countries, mostly backpacking or biking between the Andes and the Amazon. All were fun and interesting people, and some are still friends. Then they changed. The website became difficult to use. They cropped photos and present them in an unwanted slide show, destroying much of the content. For those 9 years, I had never been charged because of my high intake of visitors. But suddenly they want money, even though my free time had not expired. And now, they won't even let me see my messages unless I pay. And worst of all, they rudely interrogate people's sexual choices in detail. It now seems like an LGBTQ dating site. I never concerned myself with people's private sexual choices, but when they must showcase them, it's an indication of sexual intention. Couchsurfers have been traditionally open minded people who accept everyone without prying into private matters. It used to be an excellent app for interesting and versatile travelers with open minds and low budgets. No more. Now it's trashy. Sorry, CS, you've done this to yourselves.

Couchsurfing è diventato una truffa totale.lo scorso maggio mi sono iscritta perche mi serviva un posto per un paio di giorni. Subito dopo il sito è stato bloccato per lavori per una settimana, cosi non ne ho potuto usufruire. Ho cancellato la membership mensile,ma mi hanno lostesso prelevato i soldi il mese dopo. Ho fatto un reclamo e mi hanno praticamente risposto che non glie ne fregava niente. Sanno benissimo che la polizia postale non farà niente. Una truffa legalizzata.

War früher cool aber vor ein paar Jahren wurde es kostenpflichtig. Anfangs nur 1 Euro, mittlerweile brauchst du ein Abo das wirklich ins Geld geht. 10 Euro für 3 Monate find ich pervers hoch für eine ursprünglich echt liebe, sympathische Idee. Ich hab während 15 Jahren etwa 30 Couchsurfer bei mir aufgenommen, selbst bin ich nur 2 Mal "gesurft". Jetzt müsste ich selbst als Gastgeber (!!) 10 Euro dafür zahlen, um anderen Reisenden im Sommer eine kostenlose Unterkunft zu ermöglichen! Ist das nicht krank?? Zudem merkt man, wenn man eine Unterkunft sucht, dass der Großteil ehemaliger Gastgeber (vermutlich ebenfalls aus Kostengründen) bereits abgesprungen ist und Anfragen ins Leere gehen und nicht mehr angenommen werden können -womit man erst wieder auf Air b n b und Co angewiesen ist. Schade, aber mich als Kunden verlieren sie nun definitiv.

One of the greatest inventions of the 21st century was ruined by... greed, I suppose? It went all the way from the 2011 promise that "CouchSurfing will never make you pay" (surprisingly still online) to the 2020 call for monetary help (a "decision of last resort") to a paid-subscription model that has remained even after the pandemic, only becoming more universal and more expensive in 2026. So, a platform that was originally built on human-to-human trust started deceiving its members long ago, but the most recent, dating-app-inspired 2026 update comes close to being a scam. First, in order to hide the fact that the vast majority of profiles have long been inactive, they removed the one feature that still made it easy to use, the ‘Last log in’ filter, replaced by a vague 'Recently active' tag (initially, by nothing). More dangerously, they moved every user, regardless of their hosting status, to be an 'active host' you can send requests to, unless they subscribe and change their status every single month (there’s no permanent switch off). Thus they're seemingly trying to lure back the disenchanted (they start receiving request notifications in their emails, though some of these do seem to be made-up) and give the false impression of an active community before potential new subscribers and, I suppose, before potential investors as well. My real-life friend María José died in a car crash in 2024, along with her father. Ten years before, she'd signed up on Couchsurfing, which she never seems to have used. In 2026, M. J. became an 'active host' you can send requests to, asking to stay with her wherever she is now... and will remain so for eternity, for, being dead, she can no longer change or delete her profile. One can only imagine how many Couchsurfing users created profiles since the company was launched in 2004, left them to rot, passed away at some point in the 2000s or 2010s or 2020s, and have been peacefully lying in their graves until April 2026, when they were summoned back to inflate the numbers of a now-shady company. To top it up, if a user has no home pics, as is the case with many of them, an image is chosen of a place above the clouds... Unless having a Couchsurfing profile grants you some special form of immunity against death, they must be at least in their hundreds, statistically. But the Resurrection of the Dead comes shortly before the Apocalypse, the End of all Ends. Please choose Couchers or BeWelcome every time you can. Couchsurfing's tactics are plainly immoral, perhaps illegal.

The platform literally doesn't work anymore and still they forced me to pay, or loose all my data and account. It was supposed to be a free platform for everyone. They have destroyed it.

I do NOT recommend couchsurfing.com (previously couchsurfing.org). I have been a very active and regular user of this platform from March 2009 to June 2026 - over 17 years - with 133 references, all positive, from both hosts and guests. Although my yearly subscription was paid and up to date, all of a sudden I could not access anymore my account. I messaged the Couchsurfing support, who replied one week later with a generic unpersonalized response, informing me that my profile had been removed, and that no explanation would be provided. So even though you have paid your subscription, you might get your account removed without any warning, without any explanation, without access to your data, and without any refund. This is one of the most disturbing user policy I have ever experienced in my life. My general feeling is that couchsurfing.com, although it initially started as an enjoyable free community-based platform, evolved over the years into a soul-less money-making factory. I have now created new profiles on couchers.org and bewelcome.org, which are both free platforms that seem to provide a credible alternative to couchsurfing.com.

Very bad new design. No User experienced used at all. My total lifetime membership gone. I cant find anyone. Just why, why???