You would have to ask her/him about the drinks. My host was awesome and bought me some food and toiletries to keep. She also scammed me out of my booking last minute after I arrived but t the same time accomodated me by allowing me to give him $80 for 4 nights to stay in her living room behind this curtain on the top bunk (in Harlem, 122nd street, African lady named Regine Asaba calls her place the Comfort Stay NYC). I had actually booked the full apartment but like I said, once I finally made it there, she told me her daughter from Cameroon had surprised her and she gave her the apartment I booked, logged into Airbnb/paypal and refunded me on the spot but it was late and my phone/netbook were both dead and you can't get anythnig in NYC last minute for anything near reasonable and I was NOT trying to do the hostel thing, but again I didn't have the ability to get online and book one anyways.
So I was sitting there in the living room, had no idea how big the place was because from the living room you can just see the kitchen, then hallway and a bunch of doors. It was probably no less than like 7 or 8 bedrooms in there. I'm just sitting on the top bunk behind the living room couch and I keep seeing couples and people come in and go back off into different doors and ****. I'm like man how man rooms is this place? Regardless, my fat *** on a top bunk is unacceptable but she lets a guy stay on the bottom rent free in exchange for his webmaster services, he lists all her properties on airbnb, craigslist, etc. So we finally pulled the curtain and went to sleep,, woke up in the morning and went and hooped with some NTers in Queens, then was like I'm not going back to that **** so I got on priceline, named my own price in Newark (right across the river obviously, $1.25 15minute train ride back to NYC) for like $60 a night for the rest of my trip and stayed in the Hilton Newark instead. I was mad I left my chicken she bought me and plus $60 though but never went back and got them. She called me and asked why I didn't come back, I lied and told her I had to work and it wasn't her.
Oh, and a LOT of people on that site will demand you send them pics of fb links before they approve your booking because they don't want black people at their place, many even say so directly.
It was an interesting experience, but I wouldn't do it again.
