Today, Sonder begins again. The new Sonder does not operate the buildings or run the front desk. Instead, we carry the idea forward as a curated guide to city stays: choosing places with character, surfacing the details that matter, and helping travelers find rooms, neighborhoods, and moments worth remembering. The shape has changed. The reason is the same.
About Sonder
A new chapter for Sonder, and for city stays worth remembering.
Sonder is a curated guide to urban stays, showcasing design-led apartments, aparthotels, and boutique hotels in the cities you keep coming back to. We choose the places we would book ourselves, write them up honestly, and help you find a stay that fits the way you actually travel.
The Sonder storyThe name was always about
The name was always about
more than a room.
Sonder began with a feeling: the realization that every stranger is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. For years, that idea shaped a new kind of urban stay. One built from design-led apartments and boutique spaces made for travelers who wanted more independence, more comfort, and more of the city around them.
Our approachSelection is
Selection is
the product.
In a world of too much choice, curation is the answer.
Most travel sites compete on volume - every room, every night, every possible option. That leaves you with too many tabs open and no clear sense of which stay is right.
Sonder takes the opposite approach. We list less.
A stay earns its place only if it clears a higher bar for design, location, comfort, and amenities. What remains is easier to choose from, and worth your time.
How Sonder works
Discover with us. Book with the partners you trust.
Three steps, no surprises. Sonder helps you choose the stay. The reservation is fulfilled and supported by the booking partner, so you get their protections, policies, and customer service.
01
We curate
Only apartments, aparthotels, and boutique hotels that clear the Sonder bar for design, location, and quality make the list. We only list the best.
02
We write it straight
Every listing shows you the details that actually decide a trip: the kitchen, the walk to the train, the neighborhood, and the trade-offs. All in plain language, before you book.
03
You book with our partners
Reserve through trusted travel partners. The price, policies, and booking support come from them; the curation, context, and neighborhood detail come from Sonder.
We build every stay around how a trip is actually enjoyed.
The stay starts the moment you set your bags down. Clean light, a quiet room, the sense that everything is ready.
Comfort without effort. The bed, the bath, the quiet, the right temperature, the feeling of finally landing.
Sleep, sunlight, and space. When the stay has them, a pool, a gym, a sauna, or a walk that brings you back.
The city through a local lens. The neighborhood, the table, the street, the walk home.
The part that outlasts checkout. The details, preferences, and moments that make the next trip feel more yours.
For modern city travelers
Made for trips that rarely fit one label.
Sonder is for travelers who move between work and leisure, hotel comfort and apartment ease, planning and spontaneity. The traveler who wants a good desk in the morning, dinner around the corner at night, enough space to stay awhile, and a room that still feels considered when the day is done.
Whether you are booking a weekend, a work trip, a family stay, or a month in a new city, Sonder helps you start with the kind of stay that fits the trip.
Under new ownership
A name people remember, rebuilt for how they travel now.
The Sonder name has stood for design-led urban travel since 2014. In 2026, the brand and sonder.com began a new chapter under TravelAI, this time as a curation layer rather than an operator. We are proud of the name we inherited. Our job now is to earn it again through better curation, clearer information, and stays worth remembering.
Who owns Sonder now?
Sonder and sonder.com are owned by TravelAI, a travel technology company within the UpNext Group portfolio. The new Sonder does not own or operate properties. It curates city stays and connects travelers to booking partners.
What does "Formerly Sonder" mean?
Some properties operated under the original Sonder brand before 2026 and are now run by other operators. Where that's the case, we note it. Same building, often the same design and layout, under new management.
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A smarter way to find
the stay that fits.
Sonder is part of TravelAI, a travel technology company building better ways to discover, plan, and remember trips. Across Sonder, the goal is simple: less scrolling, more confidence, and a stay that understands what kind of trip you are trying to have.
Start with the stayFind the city stay that
Find the city stay that
fits the trip.
Explore curated aparthotels, boutique hotels, and apartment-style stays made for better mornings, easier workdays, longer weekends, and the moments you will remember after checkout.