An Airbnb for Event Spaces Launches in DC

• January 22, 2013
• 3 Comments

by Shilpi Paul

Roof deck of private DC home offered through Eventup.

In yet another way that the internet is attempting to make our lives easier by aggregating options, an Airbnb-like website for party venues has emerged. Eventup, a website which seeks to connect event planners with empty venue spaces, launched in DC today.

Eventup works just like Airbnb: owners post photos and details of their venues, and interested party planners sift through to find a space that suits them. The party planners can sort by price, location and type of event, look through photos and read reviews. Once they zero in on a space, they can start communicating with the venue to get a more exact price quote.

Besides corporate venues, Eventup offers private citizens with particularly beautiful homes a chance to make a few thousand dollars over a weekend. The website will take a 15 percent cut of any rentals.

Of course, the site will only work if it is populated by options. Right now, Eventup has 43 venues listed in DC, from a private home in Dupont Circle to the auditorium of the National Building Museum.

Readers, would you use Eventup?

This article originally published at http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/an_airbnb_for_event_spaces_launches_in_dc/6548

3 Comments

1. cwndutilh said at 4:22 pm on Tuesday January 22, 2013:

   A group of 30 friends and I booked a house on NYE on AirBnB this year to throw a party since many were coming from out of town. There was a healthy mix of good and bad:

   Good:
   -huge, beautiful home in Dupont/Kalorama
   -heated rooftop pool
   -plentiful space for us hang out

   Bad:
   -homeowner stayed throughout the party, breaking original terms of the agreement
   -drank our booze
   -forced us to clean the morning after, although a cleaning fee was included in our $1700/night payment

   I highly recommend AirBnB for international travel as a great alternative to hostels or cheap hotels. However, when it comes to throwing a party in someone else’s residence, please be wary of homeowners trying to take advantage of the situation. I trust that Eventup will take the necessary precautions to protect guests, and I hope they will formalize their contract procedure and dispute resolution processes.

1. mj said at 5:36 pm on Tuesday January 22, 2013:

   @cw an owner of a multi-million dollar house in Dupont would be crazy to leave their house unattended for a NYE Party rental—though they should have disclosed they would be there. In fact you’d have to be crazy to let someone else throw a party in your high end residence.  Besides the insurance liability issues if someone gets hurt on the property, there’s to great a chance of damage to the property that regular insurance won’t cover if you’ve rented the space out.  Event spaces cost money for a reason—its expensive to insure and maintain nice spaces.

1. jc said at 5:43 pm on Tuesday January 22, 2013:

   Hmm, could be wrong, but that appears to be the rood deck at 2022 R Street— http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/this_weeks_find_a_double-wide_living_room_in_kalorama/5548

Join the discussion