The outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine after the Russian invasion on the 24th of February 2022 resulted in a few millions of refugees fleeing the country, the majority of whom arrived in the neighbouring Poland. Apart from those you could afford renting apartments on the commercial market, they were accommodated in the so-called collective accommodation places as well as hosted in hundreds of thousands private homes whose owners declared their solidarity with refugees. To create the former, often the tourism infrastructure – both private and state-owned – was used. This included hotels, hostels, recreation centres, agritourism infrastructure etc. For those of them that suffered financial losses during the COVID-19 pandemic or were in the decline stage, these new “customers” were a blessing. At the same time, the financial support offered by the state to private hosts also created a space for commodification of refugees. With time, the state’s support was offered only to the selected categories of refugees – e.g. single partners with more than three children, seniors, or people with disabilities – which led to the creation of the category of the “most desirable refugees." The paper scrutinises these two forms of accommodating refugees that spread between solidarity and commodification, depicting their advantages and pitfalls in the context of political economy and mobility justice. It is based on ethnographic research conducted in Western Poland since the war outbreak among the Ukrainian refugees, the private hosts, and the owners, managers and staff of the collective accommodation as well as other actors involved (local authorities, social workers, NGOs, etc.).