This is an overview of the incoming offers we have from lovely Materani and other local B&Bs in response to the Open Letter from Edgeryders posted on Matera 2019 community website. Do go in there and say thanks, some of these people are opening their homes to us!
Are you coming to Lote3 October 29 - November 3? Have a look. See if there’s anything that fits you and go for it! If you need extra help please comment below. Our small team made of @ilariadauria, @ritao and @noemi will get in touch with you shortly after.
UPDATE OCTOBER 23rd: The deals we have crafted with local b&bs were secured as long as other reservations didn’t come up, especially for September. It will also be a holiday weekend in Matera, so we can no longer vouch for them.
PLEASE REMEMBER that in Matera there is a TAX of 1€ per night only for the first 2 nights.
THE PRICES ARE PER PERSON, PER NIGHT
OFFER
STATUS
WHO TO THANK
MORE INFORMATION
1 bed for free!!
allocated
Raffaela Pontradolfi
1 double room for free!!
allocated
Sergio Fadini
L’aBBabbio nei Sassi (B&B) http://labbabbioneisassi.wordpress.com
2 beds for free!!
allocated
Antonia Dartizio
-guest needs to be French-speaker
allocated
7 rooms
Double: 45 eur/day
Triple: 60 eur/day
Quadruple: 75 eur/day
1 twin room booked.
since it’s already October you’ll have to check for availability
Leonardo Savino
B&B Il Casalnuovo
info@hotelcasalnuovo-matera.it
- breakfast included
10 mins walk from Lote3 venue
1 room: double bed
1 room: double bed + 1 single bed
1 apparment5 beds | 2 toilets | kitchen
Minimum 3 nights: double room = 57€/day + 10€/single bed
Minimum 3 nights min 3 people in appartment: 22€/day
For 5 to 7 nights: double room = 50€/day + 10€/single bed
Minimum 5 nights min 3 people: 20€/day
available, offer valid if reservations are made during month of September, if the rooms are still vacant.
The apartment has been allocated. The double room has been allocated only on 29-30. The double + single bed is still available
Enzo Montemurro
B & B Al Convento
www.alconventomatera.it
enzomontemurro@libero.it
25€/night
1 double room
1 room for 4 people
Up for a special deal for 5 to 7 nights if all the rooms are taken.
waiting for info on number of rooms and forfait for 5-7 nights stay
Angela Maria Riccardi
Via Dante, 3
micang.p@alice.it
1 appartment: 5 beds
30€/night for 3 nights
27€/night for 5 to 7 nights
(Appartamento TORRE)
Angelo
B & B Santa Barbara
3394600998
info@bbsantabarbara.it
5 rooms: price per room
double: 60€/night
3 people: 70€/night
4 people: 80€/night
more than 3 nights: -10%
Michele Noviello
b&b Agli Archi
agliarchi.sassicavmt@libero.it
5 nights:
1 ps: 180€ (36€)
2 pple: 230€ (23€)
3 pple: 330€ (22€)
7 nights:
1 ps: 250€
2 pple: 320€
3 pple: 460€
B&B Matera city
www.bebmatera.it
5 rooms: 25€/night
I am asking for a special offer for 7 nights
Giovanni Genco
Idris
info@idris.it
1 double room w/ kitchen (only for breakfast) + fridge
Each registered AirBnb user gets one single EUR20 discount for any booking (in or around Matera) above EUR100. The EUR100 limit is the total payable amount (rental fee+cleaning fee+AirBnb fee).
I have rented a nice room through Airbnb from Oct 29-Nov 3 (5 nights) that
can accomodate 4 ppl (2 single beds and 1 double sofa-bed). It costs 72EUR
per night, so 18EUR per night per person for 4 ppl or 24EUR/night/pers for 3.
hi everyone, this is just to let you know we have 7 responses so far from LOTErs stating a preference for accommodation, mostly concerning the offers above. We’ll be answering soon and match some of your requests with those from Matera. Remeber this form is open from now on until Lote, so go ahead and fill it in, thanks!
Just to let you know key hardworking LOTErs like Auli, Dorotea, Rita Pacheco have been allocated the first spots we had been offered for free. You guys know who you are and should have received emails by now. @ritao are they all set and in touch with hosts by now? Looking forward for a second round where more participants can be accommodated!
Just now, @david_de_belleville generously offered to help negotiate a deal with AirBnb like we did back in Brussels!! How cool is that? David I’m answering here to keep a transparent commm. I think most people here would agree this would be super helpful. I took that offer back then and I’d take it now if it got cheaper than current offers we have - so less than 20 EUR (see above in the table). I’m browsing through the AirBnB website just now… what do others think? Should we dedicate our full efforts to finding hosts with free beds, or try out other opportunities as well? I’m for the second option, since it can take too much time to accommodate tens of participants for free (if we can do that!) and there’s only 8 weeks left. @ilariadauria?
If [david de belleville] manages to get the deal, we should coordinate: Rita and I know most of the b&bs in the Sassi, and we were ready to send a common email through our personal contacts and ask a convention for max 20€/night if people stay for 3 or more nights in a row. Here you can see Matera’s offers on the Airbnb website. Some of them overlap with the ones Rita and I are going to contact, so how should we do this?
I suggest I give AirBnB a call to see how they feel about the idea first.
There is no reason why having two ways of booking should be a problem as the AirBnB deal is transparent to the hosts. One could actually agree on a special offer with the B&B (thanks to Rita & Ilaria) and then make the booking through AirBnB and get an additional discount.
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After a week of fruitful dialogue with Airbnb staff. We should get discount vouchers of EUR20 for bookings over EUR100. We are allowed to break down reservations into successive bookings for larger amounts (ie. if a house for 5 ppl costs EUR500 for a week, we can make 5 successive bookings -with the host’s consent-).
All details should be confirmed shortly. It is better to wait for the deal to be finalized before spreading the good news.
David, this is so helpful! Just today i was in touch with a bunch of Edgeryders and we’d consider booking through AirBnb.
The way it worked last year in Bruxelles is that we were given a voucher code (“EDGERYDERS” or smth) so when you made the booking online you’d type in this code and in the invoice you would see the discount. Let uk know when it’s all set so we can spread the news and give instructions … veeery happy!
I hope I don’t sound overdemanding but… this business of breaking down a reservation into several seems to me like it would be cumbersome and it would risk puzzling hosts. Could it be simplified somehow? Example: give a 20% discount on the reservation for the amount exceeding €80. So, a €500 reservation would give rise to a discount of (500 - 80) * 20% = €84, and therefore cost 500 - 84 = €416. This would take from hosts the burden of cooperating with us to get through this. I am sure Airbnb, too, are concerned about this stuff being as transparent for their hosts as possible.
as you can imagine, I first tried to push for a 20% discount or incremental vouchers (EUR20 for EUR100+ bookings, EUR40 for EUR200+, etc) but it seems to be a complex technical matter for them. I still have hope I can get the incremental vouchers though. I’ll keep you updated, D
I finally received the promo code from AirBnb on Friday (and then was away for the weekend). Let me know if I should write it here, which seems like a pretty open place, or if it should be sent by email/newsletter.
I tested using the deal and it works… but it’s not very pratical for grouped bookings. Here are the details :
Each registerd AirBnb user gets one single EUR20 discount for any booking (in or around Matera) above EUR100. The EUR100 limit is the total payable amount (rental fee+cleaning fee+AirBnb fee).
Enjoy and don’t forget to say thank you to the Paris AirBnb team if you use the discount
I’m not sure how we can manage this: if editing it directly on the info page (here) is to accessible to anyone not part of the ER and Airbnb community, do you think we should explicit that for those who want to use this system they have to send an email directly to me and/or Noemi? Would this work?
Here’s what we can do: the timing is perfect, as I am about to send an internal communication to everyone who registered for Lote, asking if they are definitely coming (to give us a fair estimate of how many are we expecting in Matera) and reviewing all the information we have so far on :
Dates and Location
Program
Travel guidance
Accommodation offers available: with respect to the BnB offer I can add the coupon code in the email or if you prefer to keep it even more private, I ca be their contact person who delivers the code. Can you send it to me at noemi at edgeryders dot eu with your preference [david de belleville]?
A quick note to let you know the room for 4 listed in the table is now full. Best of luck to those still without a home & see you soon in Matera! Baci, David
Noted, [david de belleville], thanks. I edited the wiki. If you have further changes to make, the quickest way is for you to simply click on the “edit” button: updates in the comments risk not being seen. See you soon in Matera!
Raffaela Pontradolfi 
Antonia Dartizio
