Bangkok, unscripted.
Meet verified locals across Southeast Asia — for an evening of dining, drinks, a couch to land on, or a year with a host family. One platform, one trust theatre, four ways in.
Hosts who’d be your friends if you lived there.
Travel matched to people, not properties.
Most travel platforms book you a room, a tour, or a table. Greety matches you with the person who'd be your friend if you lived there.
Verified, in person.
Every host is ID-checked, video-interviewed, and references-vetted before they go live. No anonymous profiles, ever.
On-platform chat. Always.
Conversations stay inside Greety — for safety, for trust, and because the next message you send shouldn't be on someone else's app.
Premium-curated.
We don't list a thousand hosts in every city. We list the right thirty. The ones whose nights you'd remember in five years.
One platform, every angle of life in SEA.
Meet a local
An evening with a verified local — drinks, dinner, the unscripted night out.
Properties
Full Airbnb-style listings at half the commission. Verified hosts only.
Stay
Spare-room couch surfing, restored. Free or low-points stays with verified hosts.
Sit
House- and pet-sit while owners travel. Free stay in exchange for kindness.
Au Pair
Live-in childcare exchange. Six-month or longer placements with vetted families.
Classifieds
Buy, sell, hire — all from verified locals. 9 categories from cars to tutoring.
Adult classifieds
Meet Ups, Speed Dating, Companion, Massage. 18+ verified-only.
Partners + bonuses
Curated travel-stack offers: Revolut, Crypto.com, NordVPN, eSim, insurance.
One trust platform. Many ways in.
Whether it's a single dinner, a couple of nights on a couch, two weeks with someone's cat, or a year with a host family — the same verified-local trust theatre runs underneath.
An evening with a verified local
Dinner, drinks, the unscripted night out. Per-meet rates, points-locked.
Browse meet →
A spare room across SEA
Couch surfing, restored. Verified hosts, free or low-points stays.
Browse stay →
Two weeks with someone's cat
House and pet sitting. Free stays in exchange for honest stewardship.
Browse sit →
A year with a real family
Cultural exchange, real stipend. Premium SEA families, verified au pairs.
Browse au pair →
Three steps to a real night out.
Browse curated hosts.
Filter by city, vibe, language, and night type. Every profile is photographed and verified.
Match and chat on-platform.
Send a meet request, agree on time and place inside Greety. Points stay in escrow until you both confirm.
Meet your local.
Show up. Share a meal, a night out, an unscripted evening. Rate each other after — it keeps the platform honest.
Locals across SEA, ready to host.
Bow, 32
Klong Toey · Muay Thai training, Fight nights
Thai · English
$60 / meet
Ploy, 26
Ekkamai · Speakeasies, Independent cinema
Thai · English
$75 / meet
Duc, 32
District 1 · Motorbike night rides, Beer streets
Vietnamese · English
$65 / meet
Dao, 28
Siam · Personal shopping, Sample sales
Thai · English
$80 / meet
Curated, not crowdsourced.
Top Hosts hold a 4.9+ rating, sub-hour response time, and a year of in-platform history. Roughly the top 8% of every city.
Bow, 32
Klong Toey · Muay Thai training, Fight nights
Thai · English
$60 / meet
Ploy, 26
Ekkamai · Speakeasies, Independent cinema
Thai · English
$75 / meet
Duc, 32
District 1 · Motorbike night rides, Beer streets
Vietnamese · English
$65 / meet
Dao, 28
Siam · Personal shopping, Sample sales
Thai · English
$80 / meet
10 cities. Hundreds of locals.
4 live, 6 more rolling out across this year and next.
Curated, verified, on-platform.
The four ways Greety stays a place you'd send your friend, your sister, your mother.
Government-ID verification
Every host clears a government-ID + selfie liveness check before going live. No exceptions.
On-platform chat only
Conversations stay inside Greety. We monitor for off-platform contact attempts and remove hosts who push them.
Points held in escrow
Your points lock the moment a meet is confirmed and only release once both parties mark the meet complete.
24/7 safety line
A real human responds within ten minutes, every hour, every city. One tap from inside the app.
Points. Not money.
Greety runs on points. You buy them once, spend them across cities, and they stay in escrow until your meet wraps.
- Lock the price the day you book — points don't drift with FX.
- Refundable up to 24 hours pre-meet. Half-refunded after.
- Top Hosts unlock points-only meets — premium tier, no card needed.
- Points never expire. Bring them on the next trip.
Nights worth telling people about.
Verified guests, verified hosts. Pulled live from the platform — no cherry-picked five-stars, no fake names.
“I've been to Bangkok five times. One night with Anong showed me a wine room I'd walked past four trips in a row.”
“Booked a cocktail tour, ended up at three speakeasies, a karaoke bar, and a 4am tapsilog place. Greety doesn't sell trips. It sells nights.”
“On-platform chat, verified profile, points stayed in escrow until we met. The first travel app I felt my parents would actually be okay with me using.”
“Duc took me on the back of his bike for four hours. Hidden bars I never would have found. I still text him.”
“Mai cooked for us in her family's old shophouse. Three hours, six dishes, zero rush. The good kind of jet lag.”
“Booked Praew on a whim my first night in Bangkok. Three rooftops, two of them off-menu. By Sunday I was rebooking for next month.”
“Andrea took us through Poblacion like a friend who'd just moved back. Best three nights of a 12-day trip.”
“Bow brought me ringside at Channel 7. The fight was insane. The bowl of boat noodles after was better.”
“Tho fitted three shirts at my hotel between meetings, delivered them before checkout. Better than my Hong Kong tailor.”
“Mook isn't a hotel spa. She's a real practitioner. I haven't slept that well in two years.”
“Sokha walked us through her gallery, then her family's favourite riverside place. We cried over Kampot pepper crab. Long story.”
“Kham's farm at sunrise. Lunch with his mother. Slow north Thailand done right.”
“I've been to Bangkok five times. One night with Anong showed me a wine room I'd walked past four trips in a row.”
“Booked a cocktail tour, ended up at three speakeasies, a karaoke bar, and a 4am tapsilog place. Greety doesn't sell trips. It sells nights.”
“On-platform chat, verified profile, points stayed in escrow until we met. The first travel app I felt my parents would actually be okay with me using.”
“Duc took me on the back of his bike for four hours. Hidden bars I never would have found. I still text him.”
“Mai cooked for us in her family's old shophouse. Three hours, six dishes, zero rush. The good kind of jet lag.”
“Booked Praew on a whim my first night in Bangkok. Three rooftops, two of them off-menu. By Sunday I was rebooking for next month.”
“Andrea took us through Poblacion like a friend who'd just moved back. Best three nights of a 12-day trip.”
“Bow brought me ringside at Channel 7. The fight was insane. The bowl of boat noodles after was better.”
“Tho fitted three shirts at my hotel between meetings, delivered them before checkout. Better than my Hong Kong tailor.”
“Mook isn't a hotel spa. She's a real practitioner. I haven't slept that well in two years.”
“Sokha walked us through her gallery, then her family's favourite riverside place. We cried over Kampot pepper crab. Long story.”
“Kham's farm at sunrise. Lunch with his mother. Slow north Thailand done right.”
“Kham's farm at sunrise. Lunch with his mother. Slow north Thailand done right.”
“Sokha walked us through her gallery, then her family's favourite riverside place. We cried over Kampot pepper crab. Long story.”
“Mook isn't a hotel spa. She's a real practitioner. I haven't slept that well in two years.”
“Tho fitted three shirts at my hotel between meetings, delivered them before checkout. Better than my Hong Kong tailor.”
“Bow brought me ringside at Channel 7. The fight was insane. The bowl of boat noodles after was better.”
“Andrea took us through Poblacion like a friend who'd just moved back. Best three nights of a 12-day trip.”
“Booked Praew on a whim my first night in Bangkok. Three rooftops, two of them off-menu. By Sunday I was rebooking for next month.”
“Mai cooked for us in her family's old shophouse. Three hours, six dishes, zero rush. The good kind of jet lag.”
“Duc took me on the back of his bike for four hours. Hidden bars I never would have found. I still text him.”
“On-platform chat, verified profile, points stayed in escrow until we met. The first travel app I felt my parents would actually be okay with me using.”
“Booked a cocktail tour, ended up at three speakeasies, a karaoke bar, and a 4am tapsilog place. Greety doesn't sell trips. It sells nights.”
“I've been to Bangkok five times. One night with Anong showed me a wine room I'd walked past four trips in a row.”
“Kham's farm at sunrise. Lunch with his mother. Slow north Thailand done right.”
“Sokha walked us through her gallery, then her family's favourite riverside place. We cried over Kampot pepper crab. Long story.”
“Mook isn't a hotel spa. She's a real practitioner. I haven't slept that well in two years.”
“Tho fitted three shirts at my hotel between meetings, delivered them before checkout. Better than my Hong Kong tailor.”
“Bow brought me ringside at Channel 7. The fight was insane. The bowl of boat noodles after was better.”
“Andrea took us through Poblacion like a friend who'd just moved back. Best three nights of a 12-day trip.”
“Booked Praew on a whim my first night in Bangkok. Three rooftops, two of them off-menu. By Sunday I was rebooking for next month.”
“Mai cooked for us in her family's old shophouse. Three hours, six dishes, zero rush. The good kind of jet lag.”
“Duc took me on the back of his bike for four hours. Hidden bars I never would have found. I still text him.”
“On-platform chat, verified profile, points stayed in escrow until we met. The first travel app I felt my parents would actually be okay with me using.”
“Booked a cocktail tour, ended up at three speakeasies, a karaoke bar, and a 4am tapsilog place. Greety doesn't sell trips. It sells nights.”
“I've been to Bangkok five times. One night with Anong showed me a wine room I'd walked past four trips in a row.”
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