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Roamr started when I used a work conference in London as an excuse to catch up with an old college roommate for the first time in years.
I skipped the work-funded hotel and stayed at his place instead. Ordered takeaway, spent hours catching up, and mentally decompressed after long days at the conference.
It felt like a much more socially rewarding way to travel for work than the usual hotel stay. And Roamr exists because we bet we’re not the only ones who feel that way.
Not every trip is a Roamr trip, and not every business traveller is a Roamr. That’s okay.
But if anything below resonates with you, you’re a Roamr. And we’d love you to pay you to stay with someone you trust on your next work trip.
You see business travel as a chance to reconnect with friends and family
A work trip can put you within reach of people you don’t get to see nearly enough.
Careers push people into the same handful of cities. New graduates cluster in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Remote work spreads old colleagues and school friends even further, often into exactly the places your job sends you next. The overlap between where you travel for work and where your people actually live is bigger than most of us realise.
A Roamr treats that overlap as a reason to reach out. A work trip becomes the reason you finally see someone who means a lot to you but lives states or oceans away. The flight’s already covered. All that’s left is deciding where you sleep.
You prefer decompressing socially to a Netflix party for one
There are some people who, after one long day of a business trip, prefer to decompress alone in their hotel room. There’s nothing wrong with that. But those travellers aren’t Roamrs.
If you’re a Roamr, decompressing looks more like getting together with a familiar face and sharing a laugh over food. You’re happy to skip the room service, Netflix, and silence you get from the average hotel experience.
You’re tired of the same old hotel experience
The perks of hotel stays that infrequent business travellers get excited about don’t hold the same appeal to you. A Roamr doesn’t care much about:
- Turndown service
- Having a bar downstairs after a long day
- Being able to ask the front desk attendant any questions
- Maybe ordering room service at midnight
Instead, you’re more interested in an experience that doesn’t involve staying in a room that looks identical to the one you slept in on the last three business trips.
You’ll give up all the hotel perks to catch up with someone you care about.
You believe cost-effective travel shouldn’t mean two-star experiences
When budgets tighten in your organization, you believe savings shouldn’t come at the expense of a decent accommodation. But more often than not, the hotel you’d have booked a couple years ago turns into a mid-range three-star (or worse) that’s further away from where you need to be.
We built Roamr to help your company save money on hotel accommodations (30% or more per night) without sacrificing your experience. You get to connect with a friend or family member while they save on the budget.
You can’t stand fighting with booking tools to find a compliant rate
Finding something that’s actually in policy shouldn’t take longer than packing for the trip.
Most booking tools make it feel that way:
- Endless filters. You’re sorting by price, then location, then policy compliance, then back to price again, and you still haven’t found a match.
- Approved options that cost more. The compliant rate is somehow pricier than what you’d book yourself in two minutes on your own.
- Exceptions that need a paper trail. Anything slightly outside policy means an email, a manager, and a wait before you can actually book.
Roamr skips the search entirely, with one rate that’s already in policy and a receipt that’s compatible with finance’s expense tool.
You’d love a cash incentive for work travel
You can book a standard hotel through your company’s usual process and (if you’re lucky) bank some points. But you’d rather that incentive come in the form of cash in your pocket.
Hotel points take a long stretch of stays to add up to anything, and even then they’re only worth something if you keep booking the same chain. Roamr pays you and your host out in cash after every stay you choose, deposited directly, with no chain to stay loyal to and no expiry date to race against.
If that kind of win-win incentive sounds better to you than a typical hotel stay, you’re a Roamr.
Let us pay you to stay with a friend on your next work trip
Not everyone will read that list and see themselves in it, and that’s fine.
But if most of it sounded familiar, you already know what your next work trip could look like instead.
Booking through Roamr is easy. Set up your account and get paid to stay with someone you trust on your next work trip.
