A host family rents you a room in the home they actually live in — and then you end up at their kitchen table. Joy Nativo lists families in Ecuador, Colombia and Kyrgyzstan, each one identity-checked and read through by our team before the profile goes live.
Nobody appears here by filling in a form. There are three gates, in this order.
The host uploads an identity document and a selfie to our verification partner. No verified document, no listing — there is no way around this step.
Our team reads the profile, the rooms, the photos and the house rules. A profile that has not been approved is invisible to travellers; only the host themselves can see it.
Only then can the family receive a booking request. The same check runs again if they later change what they offer.
It is not a guest house with a family attached. You live in someone's home, on their terms, and that is the whole point.
Neither side hands over contact details until the stay is confirmed. That protects both of you.
Pick a room, choose your dates and send a booking request. Travellers verify their identity too, so the family knows who is asking.
They confirm the dates are free and that they are happy to host you.
We confirm the stay — and only at that point do the two of you receive each other's contact details.
Every destination below has at least one published family right now. Open a city to see the rooms, the prices and the people.
A host family is a household that rents a room in its own home to a traveller and shares daily life with them — meals, the living room, the language. It is not a hotel with a family name on it: the family lives there while you do.
Yes, and in two separate ways. Each host passes an identity check with a document and a selfie, and then a person on our team reads the whole profile before it is published. Profiles that fail either step never become visible.
No. Most families host people at every level, from a first week of lessons upwards. Each profile lists the languages the family speaks, so you can pick one that shares a language with you to start with.
From a few nights to several months — each room states its own minimum and maximum. Many hosts set a lower nightly rate from a certain number of nights, which is shown on the room itself.
Contact details are exchanged once the stay is confirmed, so the conversation starts then. Before that you have the family's profile: photos of the actual rooms, who lives in the house, what they cook and what they like doing.