In brief hospitality is typically requested by

• Finding prospective warmshowers host(s) in the location you desire.
• Reading the prospective host(s) account to see if it fits your needs.
• Contacting the host to request hospitality -- which is usually done by email but can be done by phone.

The warmshowers website has two tools that can be used to locate members:

• An interactive map with icons representing the location of warmshowers members
• A list of warmshowers members residing in a specified state or province

To use either tool you will need to be logged into the warmshowers website.

To use the map:

• Click the "Map" link found in the menu on the upper left-hand side of most website pages (or go to http://www.warmshowers.org/map)
• The view that appears in the Google map will probably not show the location that you are interested in. One way to get to your desired location is to use the "country" pull-down menu and the "city/state/suburb" box on the map page. First select the country that you want and then type the first couple of letters of a city/town/suburb in your area of interest. For example to bring up Las Vegas, Nevada on the map choose "United States" from the "country" menu. Then simply typing the letters "la" will bring up a new menu in which Las Vegas appears as one of the choices.
• Two icons are used to indicate the location of warmshowers members. The red icons mean a single member resides in this location. A blue icon indicates that there are two or more members living here. If you zoom into a location with a blue icon far enough it should disintegrate into multiple red icons.
• Also on the map page you will find listed to the right (outside of the map itself) some of the names and addresses of the warmshowers members who reside in the area shown on the map. If you move your cursor over their highlighted names the map will move to center their location icon. Also a balloon pop-up appears above this icon which lists this member's name (highlighted), their address, and the phrase "Click to email".
• Clicking on the highlighted member's name will take you to their warmshowers account. Here you can read about them and the hospitality that they offer.
• Clicking on the "Click to email" link will take you to a simple email tool that you can use to send a message to this prospective host. After filling in the Subject and Message fields and then clicking "Send e-mail" the message will be sent.

To generate a list of warmshowers members in a specified region:

• Click the "List members on one page" link found in the menu on the upper left-hand side of most website pages (or go to http://www.warmshowers.org/member_list)
• On the webpage which appears select the country and then the province/state; after clicking the "Submit" button the desired list will soon appear
• This tool will allow you to go to a prospective host's warmshowers account so that you can read what they have written there. To do so simply click on the member's highlighted username which is given in the second column of the listing
• And you can also send an email to a prospective host using the same simple tool described in the map option above. This is done by clicking on the highlighted "email link" in the third column of the listing