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Sharing a Hotel Room With a Stranger Just Got Strangely Easy
A travel site called Winston Club wants you and a new friend to split the bill.
Would you share your hotel room with a stranger? What if it meant slashing your nightly bill in half?
That’s the conceit of the new travel site Winston Club. It helps hotels fill vacant rooms, and hooks customers up with half-price stays by splitting the cost with another visitor. Founder Bryon Shannon dreamed it up after renting out his Seattle home on Airbnb for a day longer than his out-of-town trip. He wasn’t keen on shelling out money for a pricey room, but also wasn’t sold on hostels or other available Airbnb listings. He imagined that other people had encountered the same situation.