Marked by complex interfaces between consumption and intimacy, bed and breakfast lodging transcend logic and domains. In order to understand the encounters between guests and hosts in this type of establishments located in Santa Teresa, this study aimed to describe and interpret their dynamics, behaviors and meanings. Assumed the memories produced by hosts as dynamic and procedural elements, making their biases as indicators to be problematized and contextualized. Noted that, although marked by commercial activity, these meetings can be guided by the gift, concurrently being influenced by the ethos of the neighborhood in question, and influencing the relations between residents and public and private spaces. The creation of social relations both between natives and between guests and hosts seems to work as a strategy to respond to contemporary conditions as the fracturing of lived space, the acceleration of time and destabilization of identities.