Accommodation wiki

noemi · June 22, 2019, 3:46pm

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 apparment 5 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 3 nights: 200€ (50€/ps) 4-5 nights: 32,5€/ps 6-7 nights: 30€/ps			Il Cortile ilcortilematera@gmail.com
1 appartment for 4 ppl: *If it is taken for 1 week by 4 people, the offer is 20€/night breakfast included!*	Offer is valid until somebodey else reserves the bed and breakfast for that period.		Matera B&B materabedandbreakfast@hotmail.it
Offer valid until the 20th of October, if there are romms available Double room: 65€/night -10% from 2d night on		Domenico (father) Cristina (daughter)	Fra i Sassi mail@fraisassiresidence.com
25€/person triple room: 70€/night		Angela Bellomo	La Corte angela.bellomo@lacortematera.com
AirBnB: rental apartments in Matera https://fr.airbnb.be/s/Matera–Italy		@AirBnb Paris David de Belleville	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. Breakfast included. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1577041 Could you please add it to the available accommodation table so ppl can contact me? Of course I’d prefer if roommates stayed for the whole 5 nights.	allocated	David de Belleville
Free shuttle transport from Ferrandina Train station to Matera with my car	available	Ida Leone	See map
			ALSO TO LOOK INTO
	44 rooms of differents kinds. Waiting for an answer	Gennaro Loperfido (recommended by)	Casa Per Ferie Sant’Anna www.santannamatera.it
		Sergio Fadini	Angeli per Viaggiatori: platform providing travelers' advice http://www.angelsfortravellers.com/site/it/index

noemi · July 31, 2017, 6:38pm

an update

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!

noemi · June 22, 2019, 4:26pm

Updates on 1st batch allocated. what next?

Hi,

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?

ilariadauria · July 31, 2017, 6:39pm

Uau

Awesome, this is really exciting!

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?

david_de_belleville · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

AirBnb vs. B&B deals

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.

alberto · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

Good hack

Very clever one, [david de belleville]! You rock.

david_de_belleville · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

btw, is there an easy way to tag ppl in a message? thx

matthias · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

Use [square brackets].

Admin here In the text body of comments, posts etc. you can use the user name between [ square brackets ] to create a mention. It will create a link to the user profile, and the user will get an e-mail notification about it. Use the user name exactly as displayed in the title of the user profile, so in your case this should create the mention incl. e-mail: [david de belleville].

david_de_belleville · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

thx Matthias

thx [matthias]

ilariadauria · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

Thanks to you david de

Thanks to you [david de belleville] for the idea

So if I get you right Rita and I can just go on and contact all the b&bs and then if something comes up with the Airbnb then they take care of it?

We got our brand new unmonastery emails today, so are gonna start contacting the b&bs starting from Monday!

Keep in touch!

david_de_belleville · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

AirBnB deal update

Hi all,

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.

Warm regards,

David

noemi · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

You are a star!

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!

alberto · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

Way to go

Fantastic news, David! Great work.

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.

david_de_belleville · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

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

david_de_belleville · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

AirBnb promo code

Hi all,

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

alberto · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

Bravo!

Wow, [david de belleville], thanks! And thanks to the Paris AirBnB team, of course.

ilariadauria · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

Thank you!

David, so grateful!

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?

Thanks a ton, see you in Matera?

noemi · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

THANK YOU!

David and all,

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]?

Love,

noemi

david_de_belleville · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

Room for 4 in the Sassi is full

Hi all,

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

alberto · July 31, 2017, 6:40pm

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!