I’m not vegetarian, but I think it’s a good idea and I hope it does well all over the world. I’ve worked in high tech for over 30 years and have a lot of friends and colleagues that are vegetarian. Most are from India. I always feel for them when traveling to places that are not vegetarian-friendly.
That’s pretty cool but it’s really hard to find people that are vegs and people who want to stay in veg houses. I would think it would be tough. Vegan wouldn’t even want a veg kitchen. They want pots and pans that have never seen cheese or eggs.
I think it’s wonderful. As a non-meat eater (I have been known to eat fish) I would definitely use this service as a guest.
It seems that the spaces would have to be dedicated to vegetarians and vegans so rentals would have to be just for that purpose. It’s probably
At a time when most of us are hoping that more and more people are getting rid of meat from their diet then I hope the service will grow and grow. (Although I see that it’s been around for five years so the demand is certainly there).
Although I’m a fairly half-hearted vegetarian my other half is 100% and we are almost-vegan (only two meals a week that include an animal product - cheese) so in an unknown area it would be great to get recommendations from the host about farmers markets and so on.
So they want me to keep a Kosher kitchen and have the rabbi in to cleanse my stove with a knife? Oy.
My youngest has been a vegetarian for 23 years. I’d cheerfully welcome veggies and vegans. Heck, most of my guests don’t drink.
I’d go vegetarian for a week if someone paid to stay.
I used to be vegetarian and I could definitely eat that way long-term. My problem is that I rent my whole house so I have no control of who cooks what when I am not around.
When i was a veg, I wouldn’t want my food cooked on a pan, or a BBQ, that had meat on it at any point - and you’re right, utensils too, cutting boards, mixing bowls… I know you can clean but grills have remnants of meat, a lot of pans hold flavor too. My cast iron is basically infused with bacon. I am pretty nuts about cleaning but my stuff is not up to my standard if I were a veg and definitely not for a strict vegan.
I could definitely see a market for this though. I’ve thought about it but I don’t see it being possible for me at the moment.
I’ve been about 99% vegan for about 18 years, but probably would not be interested in hosting or traveling with such a service. I find when vegans congregate we are rather insufferable. I think my guests would take issue with my second-hand leather couch or the presence of eggs from my backyard chickens. But power to folks who want to host or travel on such a platform!
I just spent 2.5 weeks in New Zealand with an old friend who is vegan (well, she is/was but then she let slip that she occasionally consumes dairy. I didn’t even pursue it) and an extremely difficult person. She is between jobs but has a paid for home and would like to be able to monetize it. However she had a bad experience with Airbnb and absolutely won’t have anything to do with them. Her rigidity would make her well suited to the kinds of folks who would book via such a site. The only issue is that she’s not going to have any money while she waits for bookings.
Oh dear, I’ve never thought of myself as insufferable. Never mind…
I think that for anyone who has a vegan or vegetarian household it’s a great niche that will probably grow in its appeal. Google tells me that about 8% of the population are vegetarian and Wikipedia says that the percentage for gay people is quite a bit lower - and yet there’s misterbnb. 
It’s not a requirement. LOL. In the case of my friend, she was insufferable when she was a flexitarian.
Thank goodness. 
I prefer not to think of myself as an anything-tarian though. Today it seems that we’re all supposed to be part of groups, or sub-groups, or tribes or packs or swarm or whatever. I’d rather be simply my own weird self. 
Ditto. I’d much rather just let people be people instead of classifying everything. “Oh, you’re vegan, we can’t talk.” ugh. so limiting. I have a friend who despises shrimp and for whatever reason, every time I want to go out for shrimp anything, she comes along!! And she knows in advance.
Me neither. I just get too irritated in organized vegan spaces because I find judgment rather than camaraderie. From what I’ve heard about certain churches, I imagine the insufferableness may have to do more with dogmatism rather than veganism.
and some don’t vaccinate their children.
Luckily I’ve never found that although the only organised vegan spaces I’ve been in have been vegan restaurants and cafes and it’s their job to be nice to me.
I love eating at vegan restaurants! It is more when I’ve tried to join animal rights groups or vegan parenting groups.
When we re-list this “booking site” will not be among them. It’s a solution looking for a problem.