A group of friends laughing together on a villa terrace at dusk

About Bubbl

Came for the event.Stayed for the Bubbl.

Bubbl is the co-stay marketplace for people travelling to the same event, experience or community. Discover the people, choose how you want to stay, and book a room in a shared property or your own private room inside a Hotel Bubbl.

Find your Bubbl Create a Bubbl

Where this starts

Nobody set out to make travel lonely.

Remember the trips where everyone stayed together? The ski house. The festival camp. The summer share. The rooms faded into the background, but the late-night conversations, inside jokes and people stayed with you.

Travel did not become lonely on purpose. We just started booking it separately.

Younger friends on the porch steps of a lakeside summer cabin at golden hour

The trips we remember

Everyone stayed together, and the stay became part of the story.

A lone traveller walking down an empty hotel corridor

The way travel became

Separate bookings, separate rooms and fewer chances to truly connect.

Why co-staying matters

The best things happen on day three.

Events create the introduction. Staying together creates everything around it: coffee before, dinner after, the ride home and the conversations that continue the next day.

That repeated time together is how unfamiliar faces become trusted relationships, friendships, collaborations and communities.

A long communal dinner table full of people mid-conversation

Time changes the relationship

People move beyond introductions when they share more than a few scheduled hours.

The unplanned moments matter

Meals, journeys and everyday conversations often create the strongest connections.

The value continues

What begins during the stay can become friendship, opportunity and lasting community.

The category

Co-stays are not new.
Being able to book one is.

People have always stayed together around a shared reason. What has been missing is a marketplace built for it. Bubbl makes co-stays discoverable, bookable and manageable by connecting the people, accommodation and plans in one place.

Friends around the dinner table inside a house, with someone cooking in the kitchen behind

A co-stay is accommodation organized around the people, purpose or experience bringing everyone together.

Our story

After eight years of organizing houses around ski trips and events, we saw the same thing every time: people rarely remembered the room. They remembered who they met, what happened around the table and the relationships that followed. That insight became Bubbl.

Hayley Melidonis · Founder and CEO

The occasions

Bubbls happen across every major type of travel.

Wherever people travel around a shared interest, event or purpose, there can be a Bubbl. From global conferences and company offsites to festivals, sports, retreats and celebrations, the stay becomes part of the experience.

Founders talking together at a conference week house

Business & professional

Conferences, trade shows, founder houses, client hosting and professional communities.

A team working and laughing together on a sunlit villa terrace during an offsite

Teams & companies

Company offsites, team retreats, employee travel and distributed teams meeting in person.

Festivals & culture

Music, film, art, food, wine and cultural events.

Fans celebrating together at a major sporting event

Sports & fan travel

Major sporting events, tournaments, races and supporter communities.

Friends in ski gear relaxing with drinks after a day on the mountain

Retreats & adventure

Wellness retreats, ski trips, surf trips and shared-interest escapes.

A group celebrating together at a villa at twilight

Celebrations & private groups

Weddings, reunions, milestone occasions and group getaways.

The property

A Bubbl is not only a house. It can be a hotel, or even a boat.

A Bubbl is defined by the people and purpose, not the building. Stay together in a home, book your own private room inside a Hotel Bubbl, or gather across apartments, villas, cabins, boats and other places that fit the trip.

Housemates cooking together in a chalet kitchen

Shared home or villa

Book a private room, shared room or bed in a property with your Bubbl.

Guests meeting in a boutique hotel with their own private rooms

Book your own private room

Hotel Bubbl

Book your own private hotel room directly through Bubbl while joining the shared community, plans and experience.

Apartments

Stay close together across apartments in the same building or neighborhood.

A lodge in the mountains during a retreat

Cabins and lodges

Create a co-stay around ski trips, retreats and outdoor experiences.

A group on the deck of a chartered boat at golden hour

Boats and yachts

Build a Bubbl around experiences that happen on the water.

A group heading out together from a temporary camp

Camps and campers

Bring the co-stay experience to festivals, outdoor events and temporary communities.

The marketplace

You pick your room, not a whole property.

Browse Bubbls around an event, destination or community. See the host, the stay and the people joining, then choose and book the room or bed that works for you. In a Hotel Bubbl, you book your own private hotel room through Bubbl while still joining the wider group experience.

Find your Bubbl

Search by event, destination, community or experience.

Meet the group

See the host, who the Bubbl is for and who is joining.

Choose your stay

Select a hotel room, private room, shared room or individual bed.

Book and join

Secure your place and enter the shared Bubbl before the trip begins.

Inside a Bubbl

Everyone arrives and co-stays on the same page.

Discover

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Search “SXSW 2026 · Austin”Search

Founders House · East Austin4 rooms left

Creator Villa · Rainey St2 rooms left

Hotel Bubbl · Downtown9 rooms left

Design Collective Loft1 bed left

Find a Bubbl built around where you are going and why.

Meet

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The Bubbl

Maya · LeaderHosting 11 founders & creatives

Alex · Product, Berlin

Priya · VC, London

Tom · Filmmaker, LA

Understand who the Bubbl is for and who you will meet.

Book

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Rooms

Private hotel room · King$310 / night

Private room · Garden$240 / night

Shared room · 2 beds$150 / night

Bed in bunk room$95 / night

Book your room

Choose and book the room or bed that suits you.

Join

9:41

Bubbl hub

Arrivals · Thu6 confirmed

Rooming listAssigned

Friday dinner · 8pm9 going

“Landing 4pm — anyone want to share a ride?”

Group chat · 2m ago

Connect and coordinate before anyone checks in.

After you book

A group trip lives and dies on coordination.

Once booked, the Bubbl becomes the shared home for the stay. Keep room assignments, arrivals, rides, meals, plans and conversations in one place instead of scattering the trip across spreadsheets, inboxes and five different group chats.

bubbl.co / hub / founders-house

12 Bubblrs · Austin

Arrivals & rides

Maya

Thu 14:20 · AUS

Ride with Tom

Alex

Thu 16:05 · AUS

Ride with Tom

Priya

Fri 09:40 · AUS

Needs a ride

Rooming list

Garden roomMaya

Hotel room 704Alex

Loft twinPriya · Tom

Announcements

Door code is 4417. Kitchen is stocked, help yourselves.

Maya · Leader

Plans, meals & activities

Thu 20:00

Welcome dinner · house

Fri 09:00

Group breakfast

Fri 19:30

Rooftop mixer · rides booked

Trust & safety

Built for connection. Designed for confidence.

Shared travel works when people understand who they are staying with, what they are booking and what is expected. Bubbl creates greater visibility around the people, accommodation and experience before anyone arrives.

Identity and profiles

Help people understand who they are staying with before the trip.

Clear stay details

Show the property, room options, host information, pricing and expectations.

Community standards

Set clear house rules, responsibilities and behavior expectations.

Secure booking and support

Keep bookings, payments and important stay information within the platform.

What we value

Five things every Bubblr has in common.

Not a personality type. An attitude. If these sound like you, you will feel at home in a Bubbl within about an hour.

Your glass is full

You travel expecting something good to happen. You choose the experience over the transaction, and you would rather do the interesting thing than the safe one. Doors open, never close.

You leave room for serendipity

The best thing that happens on any trip is the thing nobody planned. The person you did not expect to meet. The conversation that changed something. You do not over-engineer the magic, you make space for it.

You are fun, and you are not reckless

Up for the late one. Cheeky, never childish. You take other people's safety as seriously as your own good time, and you do not think those two things are in tension.

You show up as yourself

Real name, real profile, real intentions. You do not perform, and you do not need anyone else to. Trust runs both ways and you hold up your end of it without being asked.

You add to the room

You cook something, pour something, introduce two people who should know each other. The community works because everyone contributes, and you were never going to be the one who did not.

In their words

Not everyone remembers the room. They always remember the people.

Lonely Airbnb and hotel stays have nothing on Bubbl. Being matched with other CEOs and creatives added value and made my stay in Austin ever more productive and memorable.

Raymond St MartinSXSW, Austin

Staying in a Bubbl was fantastic and exceeded my expectations. As a solo founder it's a great way to meet other founders at tech conferences and build real connections. It takes the stress away from finding accommodation as well.