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How-to • Guest

Booking a stay for friends and family

We’d love to welcome your loved ones into Airbnb. But to help maintain transparency and trust throughout our community, you can’t book a stay on their behalf unless you're staying together. 

Why you can’t book a stay for others

We require all personal travel home reservations to be booked by the guests themselves because hosts rely on reading their profiles, reviews, and other verifications during the approval process. If your friends and family aren’t on Airbnb yet, here’s how to get them started

Adding people to a home reservation

Once your reservation is confirmed, you can give everyone traveling access to check-in info and all messages with the host (including all past messages between the primary booker and host) and invite them as guests on the trip.

Booking business trips for others

If your company is enrolled in Airbnb for Work, you can designate people to book trips on behalf of others.

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