I did mention Trampolinn in How To Get Non-Points Hotels For Free. but at that point I hadn t spent too much time on the website. Plus, I haven t done a full post.

My opinion has changed a bit! It s better than I thought for earning free nights, and worse than I thought for hosts.

Let me explain how I have enough points for a week of free stays from doing nothing, how it works, and the absolute cheapest way to rent apartments on the internet by far.

It s supposed to be free

One favorite quote from my friend Dave is, if someone in this group likes your product, you re doing something wrong. And that s true for everything except this site. Trampolinn advertises itself as a way to get free nights. Step 1 is use your free nights, 2 is host people.

You get points for signing up, hosting, adding info, referring people, etc

You use points to stay at houses.

No cash is involved (except for the part I ll explain later). It is a house sharing site. You list your house to earn points and you stay in people s houses when they re gone, or their vacation home, or whatever. I m dumbfounded as to why anyone would list their house on here instead of airbnb (given that you can still use cash to go anywhere), but people do.

But amazingly, you can participate in this house-sharing system, even if you don t host people, because it s based on points and not actual 1 to 1 swapping.

For signing up and completing your profile you can get 1,250 points.

For 472 points you can get a 2 bedroom apartment in downtown paris, listed as entire home which means that it is private and not shared.

I only select Entire home , but if you re willing to share with someone you can get much cheaper rates. (But at that point, why not do couchsurfing. which is completely free?)

I personally want my privacy and therefore would get about 3 nights free in Paris which is killer.

Let me quick go over earning details.

Despite having just done this all myself, I want to give a shout out to DealMommy for making me aware via her post on Trampolinn. She broke down the earnings well there, and already put it well. But I ll reiterate earnings a bit here too.

Earnings:

• 100 points for signing up via my referral link
• 100 points for referring someone who fills out a profile
  
  
  
  

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