Arthur Frommer on Casa Casa: “refreshing” and “useful”

We found ourselves a bit over the moon recently when budget travel pioneer Arthur Frommer dedicated an entire blog post to Casa Casa! Arthur Frommer is founder of the Frommer’s series of travel guides and Budget Travel magazine.

In his post, Another Useful Hospitality Service Has Just Emerged, This One Charging a Nominal Per Night Fee, Frommer writes:

Casa Casa (www.casacasa.org) is the latest fee-charging hospitality club and its understanding of what’s a “nominal” fee is refreshing: it’s $15 (single) to $20 (the total for two) per room per night, as well as an initial membership fee of $20. Casa Casa (an easily-remembered name) was begun in August of 2009 and already has 160 members — mainly in North America, but also in Europe, Israel, New Zealand, and Australia. It’s small enough that its founders are still willing to accept phone calls discussing their service.

Read the whole post here.