Airbnb is introducing a private car pick-up service

Airbnb announced Tuesday it is expanding its services diagnostic with a caller class for car pick-ups crossed 125 cities astir the world. The institution is partnering with proscription institution Welcome Pickups to fto users publication a backstage car work successful cities including Paris, Bali, and Mexico City.

The question institution said that it has been moving a aviator this twelvemonth successful Europe and Asia, wherever “thousands of guests” utilized it with an mean standing of 4.96. Airbnb said that erstwhile you publication a enactment successful a metropolis wherever the work is available, you volition spot an enactment to docket a backstage cab to the listing successful the Trips tab of the Airbnb app. Users tin presumption their cab preservation details and marque changes straight from the app.

“Airbnb Services are designed to heighten a guest’s stay, and our concern with Welcome Pickups delivers that from the infinitesimal they arrive,” Dave Stephenson, main concern serviceman astatine Airbnb, said successful a statement.

The institution said that it plans to grow this work to much cities and locations passim the year. Airbnb launched its services class past summer alongside an enlargement into experiences. At that time, it offered 10 categories of services allowing users to publication chefs, catering, prepared meals, photography, massages, spa treatment, idiosyncratic training, hair, nails, and constitution crossed 8 countries.

In November, the institution announced a concern with Instacart to let guests to bid groceries earlier and during their enactment successful select cities successful the U.S.

With the caller diagnostic rollout, Airbnb is moving toward a afloat stack of work offerings. The institution has besides been experimenting with letting users publication edifice rooms.

During its Q4 2025 net call, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said that the accidental successful hotels is massive, and it volition let the level to go a portion of a user’s trip, “no substance what benignant of enactment a impermanent wants.”