Couchsurfing: Tips from a Superhost 

This guy deserves a gold medal :D

What a great guy!! I have 4 siblings and they, as well as my parents, are all excited about the idea so we used to host a lot of through CS back in the days when we were all students and lived in one big house in Novosibirsk, Russia. Once we hosted 2 German guys doing the Trans-siberian railway trip, and at the same time 2 other guys from Israel requested to stay and we agreed. Given our history, we thought it was both amazing and ironic - Germans, Jews and Russians sitting together at our dining table and sharing stories and laughing for hours on end. :)

"Common sense. That's all I ask for." This is such a WISE answer. I guess it comes from a wisdom that's definitely from the great tradition od the Eastern World.

If I'd ever go to japan, I'll definitely offer a beer to this guy, he is amazingly nice

Even if I were to not stay in his place, I would really like to take Yuta out to dinner and have a conversation with him.. Super cool guy.. Cheers to him!!

He is so polite and open minded!! Congrats for having such a nice mentality. I hope this video encourages people to share more and realize that money isn’t everything. Sometimes a nice company or a new friend worth more than a few bucks

Dearest Manuel, I‘m the audience from Easy German and by chance noticed this video through your own channel …!! Wow deine Englisch ist sooooo fließend!!! I was totally amazed and enjoyed listening to your talking(that’s my first time hearing you speak English) ich hoffe mein Deutsch kann bisschen besser geworden in die Zukunft und fließend bekommen wie deine Englisch.🙇‍♀️ Thank you for giving me motivation work on language learning!

Wow Yuta is an angel! I hope he is able to travel all over the world, if he wants, and is treated like a prince!

Yuta appears to be such a beautiful human with the soul of an Angel! He is wonderful! Thank you so much for this video! I will be traveling solo for the first time and just recently signed up for Couchsurfing and this video put me at much ease. Thank you so much to both of you, I hope I meet amazing people like the both of you on my upcoming solo travels. God Bless!

You are Full of humanity 💐. If you are in our area 🇰🇼 Kuwait is your home welcome . Greetings from kuwait.

Agree on personalizing your requests. And I don't like hosting folks who only care about free accommodation -- don't use CouchSurfing in that case! A portion of your message could be copy/pasted. It should include an intro to yourself, details about everyone you are requesting (if you request for a group, please include profile links for everyone involved), arrival info (it matters to me if you won't arrive until 2:00 AM no a work night! I can't host you then!). But then always make sure to have a portion of your request that shows you read your host's profile. Hope everyone who watched this video was inspired to start using CS, if you haven't already started. This coming from a guy who has hosted in NYC, maybe not quite as much as Yuka, but soon approaching 100 :) It has been life changing, amazing, all positive experience.

Omg Yuta!!! You are a great person!!! You deserve the best!

Yuta seems like a kind and interesting guy. Also he has an amazing home!

Damn I want to be hosted by this guy

Thank you! Great video! I've just started hosting. Very excited to meet new travellers. I will definitely take on the tips. I like the 'No ambiguity' tip. I'm going to make a house guide display book for the guests!

Thanks, that was really informative and interesting.

Grüße aus Brasilien! Super useful tips, Manuel. Vielle Danke. Amazing and adorable couchsurfing host! Congrats. Schüss

Tip as a guest do something with your host. Especially requesting there maybe something in their profile that makes you go I wanted to do fill in the blank in their country. Now you picked up a friend who is passionate about it.

Great video, I'm using CouchSurfing for Glasgow for the first time, of course, there are doubts at first. But I'd say look at the number of references a person has, and how many people have written good things about them.

Wise and very generous gentleman!

Others did not leave a reference on the page although reminder to do so. We should be honest in writing our references because other people depends on those reference to be hosted or to host.

Wooow quiero recibirlo en la Ciudad de México, un anfitrión espectacular!. Excelente contenido.

I used a quest book and let them right their thoughts. I write the country, name, country, length of stay. Some people came and leave without writing in it doa

Good video! Thanks for the information.

He is just amazing! :))

Ich liebe einfach Tokyo. Danke für den Tipp

it's true. it's all about a suitable/good sense of what common sense is!

Amazing tips and what an awesome super host!

Geil, Manuel Seht nützliches Video, danke sehr..

Easy german podcast fan

Do you expect a soveneir from the guest country as a token of appreciation or a token to cover amenities?

Very interesting and useful video. Bound to use couchsurfing soon

I want to be like this guy... daaaamn!!! what a motivation...... I hope to revisit this comment later on to confirm my wish if it has come true..... Thanks

Now I really wanna meet this guy!

Yuta is really cool guy)

I agree that basic rules should be written in the profile or given to guest when they get there. There questions that may needed to be ask and the time may not be right to do so.

It's very nice,Japan is very expensive country 🎉❤,

The biggest chad in Japan

smells... agree on that.

Really cool video! Couchsurfing is indeed the best way to travel! I really like your channel! It is a shame that my German is not good enough so I can understand the German videos! But I hope to learn more German soon! Safe trip Manuel!

I expected tips from a superhost however, interviewer can't seem to stop talking.

I want this Corona would be off, so I could travel there and be with him :D

This is good man & Osam

Buy some detergent leave a gift for the host.

I am one of the original CSerfers from thr early days anf after Casey sold us out, CS has become a joke. That being said, there are still genuine CS out there but one has to search through a lot of crappy ones to find them. Another downside of CS today is that it is used for sex. We the original CS who put money into the site when it crashed is tge reason why CS survived. Casey the founder sent us an email begging for funds but he sold us out. In the day one only had to send 1 ir 2 messages to get a couch. Now one has to send at least 10 or more to get a couch. Personalizing 10 or more messages is tiresome.

GREAT..:D

- Hallo Cari - Hallo Manuel

Viel Glueck ♥

Yuta, you got a great joint and I know Japan is pricey. After seeing you guys walk through your place and where the interview was held, I could help you with rebranding as well as a new value added concept to Couchsurfing, which will diversify your portfolio and clientele. Think of the primary business blueprint already in place, then add through acquisition (if your bylaws do not mention you as the RSO = Rooftop Sole Owner) of another concept that equates to utilizing that kick ass rooftop as an optional place to krash, as well as giving you the option of letting some section 8 guests stay during off season. A great lawyer can draw up supplemental rules to hand out, based on your discretion and gut feeling - to be proper, one could call it the "7-Eleven Rule". For example, your discretionary 7-Eleven guests must be awake by 9AM and ready to leave the premises - 7 days a week, 9AM daily departure, "said rooftop guest" will leave the single set of keys at admissions and the front doors will be deadbolted until 5:30PM. Said guest(s) will have full entrance once again, no earlier than, 5:30PM. I can see you are a nice guy that is very smart and there is a helluva lot of trash out there, but a consistent cash flow is a necessity. Remember stanky man who arrived at your place rankin like vinegar and rotten spinach brewing in a crack house during an Arizona summer with zero ventilation? You were very kind and "suggested" a shower🚿🧼🧽 , most likely in a mannerly tone. He was either too dense or not listening to you. The conversation you enjoy having with your clients is admirable, but can't imagine ignoring someone who I met for the first time asking me "if I want to shower"...really? Ok....think of that time when you and stanky man were on the rooftop and he did not take your shower suggestion. You could walk over to that firetruck gage hose that is used to water flowers on the rooftop, turn it on, walk over, and hose him down as if you were putting out a raging fire in a house. Ahhhhh, now breathe in and out for a few seconds....and those weights of stank will be lifted off your shoulders. Here is the deal, if I were to ever "Couchsurf" in your place, I would prefer to "Rooftopsurf", seriously and I am not Section 8. Just throw an inflatable mattress on the rooftop and I'll crash under the stars on the blowup bed with a few bottles of wine....which I will put in the trash the next morning. Look at it this way, if my concept were in place, there would be no need to talk to people like stank man. You could have told him all interior rooms are taken and only have Rooftopsurfing available. Due to our administrative difficulties, you could give him 13% discount. In the end, it is a win = win for everyone. 🙃🏃‍♂️🤸‍♂️. This is the Chicago way of doing business 🤐👍💪💨😉🕺🏼. Come One Come All...it's def an expierence here and we are a loud, fun, and vivacious people. 😈 💦 WOOOF..........Manuel !!

Jah englisch 😊

speaking of hygiene, that shirt needs a wash dude