AUSTIN MUSIC CO-OP HOSTEL PROGRAM

The Music Hostel is now up and running. Here are a few details of how the program works.

What:
• The Austin Music Co-op allowed touring bands and musicians to rent rooms year round.

• Rooms were offered as singles, doubles, triples, quads, or even per bed! Nightly or weekly rates include food, linens and towels, laundry, rehearsal space, access to the computer lab and Wi-Fi, free bicycle rental, free parking and numerous local resources and networking opportunities.

How:
• Hostellers could reserve their room in advance and could check in at the co-op. Special check in times are available on an as-needed basis.
• The House Officer issues room key & front door key card to hosteller, and explains that hosteller will be required to love the house.
• Hosteller stays and has a good time.
• Hosteller returns room key and key card to a house officer or Co-op staff, who inspects hosteller’s room on check-out, and signs hosteller’s check-out form.
• Hosteller takes form to office to get deposit refund.

Form of Payment:
• Cash, Check, Credit Card, PayPal or Money Order accepted.

Rights and Responsibilities:
• Meals. Hostellers have normal kitchen privileges. Hostellers may eat any prepared meals with the house, but are responsible for preparing their own food in the house kitchen when house meals are not served. Hostellers are not allowed any guest meals.
• Love. Hostellers perform one hour of love (cooking, cleaning) for every full day they spend at the house. Love will be assigned on an as-needed basis.
• Voting at house meetings. Hostellers do not have any voting rights.
• Uncertain length of stay. If hostellers don’t know how long they’ll be staying, they can pay for one night, then return to the office the next day if they need to pay for another night. If hostellers prepay for several days and cancel some of those days, AM CO-OP will keep $5 for every two prepaid days. AM Co-op will also keep $5 for every two prepaid days when hostellers are expelled for failure to love the house or other uncooperative behavior.
• Four-week maximum. AM Co-op hostellers can stay for up to four weeks. Hostellers who want to stay longer than that must sign a regular membership contract.
• Changing rooms. Hostellers are assigned specific rooms by AM Co-op staff. If there’s a serious problem with an assigned room, a hosteller may ask a house officer to re-assign them, and must notify the AM Co-op office the following morning of the room re-assignment.
• Bad hostellers. The house may expel any hosteller for refusing to love the house or for other uncooperative behavior. If a hosteller is expelled, the house must inform the AM CO-OP office immediately.