Save thousands on your next Family Holiday!
We all love the feeling of escaping from our usual daily lives and packing our bags to jet set to a new and exciting destination. As we settle down and have families this luxury becomes more expensive and more of a hassle, especially with young children. This is the reason why more and more people are catching onto the idea of home swapping each and every day.
Home swapping is one of the fastest growing trends in todays tourism industry and is becoming a worldwide success, due to the many benefits it offers.
What is home swapping and who does it?
Home swapping is where you swap your home with another party for an agreed period of time.
We believe that most people likely to do a home swap are young couples with children. They are switched-on families who are savvy with their money and try to utilise it in the smartest way possible. They are also adventurous people who love traveling to new, exciting and interesting destinations.
Although many people have heard of home swapping only a handful have ever done it. We believe many more would actually give it a try if the service was right and with a bit more insight!
The benefits of home swapping and why its perfect for your family
- Home swap versus hotel – One of the problems with staying in hotels is the lack of space in a room or suite that is needed for a family. There would be nothing worse than being stuck in a hotel room with bored children, and having to go out all of the time to keep them entertained.
With a self-contained house though, you have the choice of being able to eat in or have a BBQ with the family and enjoy the space and comfort of being able to stay inside without getting on each others nerves. If your swap partner has children of a similar age there will most likely be toys, books, board games, computer games etc. already there for their amusement.
- Money savings – With free accommodation worldwide its obvious that families can save a lot of money when they home swap, and we all know theres nothing better than free, right! If you add up the costs for accommodation and also other factors such as car hire and flights this can add up to thousands of dollars.
- Convenience of a home thats ˜decked out for kids – All children have needs, whether it is their favourite toys or little peoples accessories. Just imagine going on holidays and not having to take a port-a-cot, change table, strollers, bikes or what seems like hundreds of toys and so on. Your swap partner may already have all of these ready and waiting for you to help yourself to on your arrival, as you might for them also.
- More holidays to enjoy – Being curious and inquisitive humans like we are, travel will always play a big part in our lives and home swapping allows us to be able to extend holiday durations or be able to go on many more holidays because of the savings you gain by not paying for accommodation.
Sherry Symonds is the founder of Family Holiday HOME SWAP, which is a home swap service that specialises in families. This is done by offering specific needs and wants to this niche market. For further details please visit www.familyholidayhomeswap.com
Post by Sherry Symonds
