To openly inform about serious issues with Hospitality Club.

OpenHospitalityClub.org

Hospitality Club is managed in a very unhospitable way.

  • There is no official organization. Instead, the "Club" is tightly controlled by Veit Kuehne.
  • There are nasty Google Ads
  • Messages are censored on the presence of terms such as "BeWelcome" and "CouchSurfing"
  • Members have been removed for merely mentioning the word "BeWelcome" in their profile summary

(Former) HC volunteers have tried to open up Hospitality Club before, which has led to the creation of BeWelcome.

CouchSurfing is slightly better but there are also many issues with that organization, though slightly less problematic.

Some interesting threads in the CouchSurfing group about Hospitality Club:

Comments

A comic on issues within HC

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 00:46.

Not only for laughing - some food for thought, too:
Grumpy Valmi and the others

1 million people who wont be using the Hospitality Club website!

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 16:54.

1 million people who wont be using the Hospitality Club website!! on Facebook

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Submitted by qwert on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 03:43.

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Why is HC so unefficient?

Submitted by guaka on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 21:29.

Why is HC so unefficient?, another thread in the Hospitality Club group at CouchSurfing.

other BIG HC defects

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 10:42.

- HC deletes members without telling them any reason
- HC is full of not active or fake members and seems not caring at all to cleanup its database
- HC never answers to feedback requests from members
- there is no software or graphical improvement in years
- all the front page promises are lies, considered what really happens inside the community (censorship, nepotism, lack of control, ...)

more info

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 23:34.

Good stuff at