Filed under The Vacation Exchange Network Talk by Jill on April 23, 2010 at 4:12 PM
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This Queensland Australia Beachfront Home is Available for Your Next Holiday Home Swap
Do you feel limited by the high cost of traveling?
Wish your family’s “staycation” could take place somewhere other than in your home?
With housing exchange, your biggest asset — your home — enables you to take unforgettable vacations on a budget. By swapping a stay in your home for a stay in someone else’s home, you can save thousands of dollars on your holiday.
Typically, 45% to 65% of the cost of a vacation goes to pay for lodging. Expect to spend $200 to $550 per night at a hotel. That totals $1,400 to $3,850 for a week, before taxes, parking, and other hotel fees. Plan to double that dollar figure if the size of your family necessitates two hotel rooms. The cost of renting a vacation home can range from $1,000 to $20,000 per week!
The high cost of lodging can mean forgoing vacations for lots of travelers who travel on a budget. However, lodging expenses no longer have to keep you from traveling…. The cost of vacationing with The Vacation Exchange Network for an entire week? Only $250 (for a Direct Exchange) or $500 (for an Indirect Exchange )!
Home swaps also enable you to skip restaurants for some meals, saving you an estimated $40 to $120 per meal for a family of four. Additionally, some home swaps come with beach passes, museum passes, discount attraction tickets, and the like, adding to the ways home swaps make travel affordable.
Of course, the tremendous savings you’ll realize by spending your vacation or holiday in someone’s home instead of a hotel is just part of the picture. Home exchange offers you the home base many people find lacking when they stay in a hotel. Even a staycation will feel like a real vacation when it is away from home! Additionally, a home offers you space and amenities that no hotel can offer. Home swappers enjoy the convenience of having a kitchen, laundry machines, comfortable sleeping and living rooms, and ample space for their family and their belongings. Many home swappers also value living like a local rather than like a tourist, an opportunity you’ll get when you stay in someone’s home rather than in a hotel.
Interested in traveling without paying exorbitant prices for lodging? Travel the home exchange way! Join The Vacation Exchange Network now!
Filed under The Vacation Exchange Network Talk by Jill on April 7, 2010 at 1:00 AM
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Outdoor Living in Cote D'Azur, France - This 5BR Home Available for Swap with The Vacation Exchange Network
Continued from Top 10 Reasons Why Home Swapping is Ideal for Family Vacations – Part Four
More Reasons Why Your Next Family Vacation Should Be a Home Exchange
2. Home swapping enables you and your family to experience your vacation destination as a local.
When you stay in someone’s home, you can live like a local rather than a tourist. To the extent you want, you can shop in the shops, eat at the restaurants, and stroll the streets away from the tourist spots. Home swap hosts often leave lists of local dining, markets, and happenings for their home swap partners. You’ll be able to offer your family a unique opportunity to view a culture from within its boundaries. You might even meet some neighbors! They’re sure to give you a friendlier welcome when you are staying in the home of their friend. More than a few times, my children have befriended some of our home swap neighbors’ children. Their stories of playing with these children have become some of their longest-standing memories of our trips.
And the number one reason why home exchange is ideal for family vacations….
1. Home exchange makes travel affordable!
There’s no getting around what many see as the most important benefit of home exchange — avoiding the high cost of lodging. Hotels and vacation rentals can cost thousands of dollars per week. This certainly limits vacation opportunities for most of us, especially “ITE” (in this economy). If you didn’t have to worry about the cost of lodging, would you be more likely to travel wherever your vacation dreams take you? Would you be more likely to take your children to all of those places you’ve always wanted to take them? You can travel in the U.S. or around the world without having to check hotel prices. And you can spend more of your vacation budget on exploring the sites and experiencing all your vacation destination has to offer.
We look forward to helping you plan your next family vacation!
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Filed under The Vacation Exchange Network Talk by Jill on April 4, 2010 at 11:14 PM
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Enjoy a Sun-Filled Family Vacation in Oahu Hawaii with a Vacation Exchange Network Home Exchange
More Reasons Why Your Next Family Vacation Should Be a Home Exchange
Continued from Top 10 Reasons Why Home Swapping is Ideal for Family Vacations – Part Two
6. Home exchange gives you a home away from home.
After a long day of seeing the sights, playing on the beach, or experiencing your latest adventure, there’s no match to returning to a comfortable and spacious home that you can call your own (at least for the week you are staying there). We all know that kids need a place to call their own. A space to relax or a space to play. Having a home to return to at the end of a day of vacation fun cannot possibly be matched by any hotel room.
5. A unique place for your next staycation.
In this economy, many families are opting for a staycation rather than a vacation. Typically, a staycation involves spending vacation time visiting attractions and events that are close to one’s home in order to vacation within a budget. With home exchange, you can have the best of both worlds. Rather than using your own home as a home base, you can use a home swap house as your home base. Visit some of the attractions and experience some of the events that are close to your home swap house, and spend time in the vacation home playing games, watching movies, and making pizza and popcorn. Your family gets some together time, and you all get to enjoy being somewhere other than your own home.
To read more of the top 10 reasons why home swapping is ideal for family vacations, visit The Vacation Exchange Network’s Blog again tomorrow!
Filed under The Vacation Exchange Network Talk by Jill on April 2, 2010 at 9:00 AM
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More Reasons Why Your Next Family Vacation Should Be a Home Exchange
Continued from Top 10 Reasons Why Home Swapping is Ideal for Family Vacations – Part One
8. When you stay in a vacation home, your kids can have their own beds.
Remember the last time you stayed in a hotel room with your kids? If your kids are anything like mine, the decision about who is going to share a bed with the “sheet stealer” takes a great deal of negotiating. In a vacation home, my kids typically have their choice of rooms, and they each get their own bed. “Can I have the sailboat room?” asks my youngest. “I get the top bunk,” states my oldest. More often than not, they all end up staying in the same room. Because it’s part of the fun of vacation. And there’s never any arguing about sheet stealing.
7. No need to sit in the hallway or on the floor of the bathroom waiting for your kids to fall asleep.
A friend of mine recently confessed to me that she and her husband typically sit on the floor of their hotel room’s bathroom or in the hallway outside their hotel room — on the floor — while they wait for their kids to go to sleep. They have to whisper, of course, and sometimes it can take 30 minutes or longer before their kids are sleeping deeply enough that they can return to the room. Even then, they must keep the lights and noise to a minimum so as not to wake up the kids and be forced to start the whole process again. Ever try watching Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Report without laughing aloud? It’s not easy. When you house swap, there’s no need to be relegated to the floor of a barely-lit bathroom. The sofa in the living room, the chaise lounge on the deck, or the bed in the master bedroom are certainly more comfortable than a tile floor. Your body will thank you for vacationing the home exchange way!
To be continued….
Filed under The Vacation Exchange Network Talk by Jill on April 1, 2010 at 10:35 AM
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Why Your Next Family Vacation Should Be a Home Exchange
Anna Maria Island Florida Vacation House Available for Home Exchange
10. You don’t have to ask for a room away from the noisy elevator.
Concern about where your room will be located — close to or far from the elevator, 2nd floor or 8th floor, smoking section or non-smoking section — is par for the course when you vacation in a hotel. When you stay in a vacation home, however, the whole house is yours. No need to worry about noisy guests, rooms that smell of smoke, a view of the parking lot, or being too far away from the ice machine. Every room in a vacation house is conveniently located and as quiet as you’d like it to be!
9. In a vacation home, there is no extra charge for room service.
Although I’ll agree that room service has a few benefits, I’d prefer not to have to pay $5 for that cup of orange juice my daughter is asking for. Home swappers enjoy a kitchen that is open 24/7, which is especially convenient for families with children who wake up hours too early for breakfast at a restaurant and for anyone who occasionally enjoys a midnight snack. Home swapping enables families to eat some meals at home, saving money on your vacation and adding oodles of convenience.
To be continued….
To read more of the top 10 reasons why home swapping is ideal for family vacations, visit us again tomorrow!
Filed under The Vacation Exchange Network Talk by Jill on March 25, 2010 at 1:00 AM
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Vacation Home Exchange Opportunity in Kauai, Hawaii
Besides offering a haven of tranquility or a home base for your adventures, vacation homes also offer many owners a major source of income. A substantial number of vacation and second home owners rent their homes to vacationers. This rental income is not inconsequential. Some vacation rentals can go for as much as $12,000 or more per week. But, even the most desirable vacation properties in the most desirable vacation destinations have unrented weeks.
So, the vacation home sits empty and unused, and the owners of the vacation home consider the week a loss. This doesn’t have to be the case. That unrented week can be used in a home exchange, also called a home swap. By joining The Vacation Exchange Network, an unrented week in your vacation home enables you to take that trip you’ve been dreaming about, in the United States or around the world. And you can take your trip in an affordable way, avoiding the high cost of lodging.
You don’t have to wait for someone to use your home in order for you to make a home exchange. Unlike other home swap companies, you can travel when and where you want without having to find someone to use your home. Simply find a vacation home in our Network, or have our home exchange coordinators find one for you, and arrange to stay there for your vacation. The other home owner will receive an Exchange Credit to be used on a future vacation. Similarly, when you allow another Vacation Exchange Network member to use your vacation property, you’ll receive an Exchange Credit.
Home exchange is a great way try spring skiing in Colorado, Utah, or Vermont, to dust off those golf clubs in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, or to travel somewhere you’ve never been. Just browse through our vacation properties to get some ideas, and we’ll help you find that perfect vacation.
To learn more about home swaps, including how to list your vacation home, how to join our home swap Network, or what makes The Vacation Exchange Network a unique house swap program, please visit us at www.TheVacationExchange.com. We look forward to helping you plan your next vacation!
No more lamenting those unrented weeks; they’re your key to your next vacation!
Filed under The Vacation Exchange Network Talk by Jill on March 17, 2010 at 11:15 AM
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Where Do Your Vacation Dreams Take You?
Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada Vacation Home Available for Exchange with The Vacation Exchange Network
Beautifully Landscaped Home in Aruba Available for Holiday Home Swap with The Vacation Exchange Network
New Zealand House Exchange on Lake's Edge in Bay of Plenty Available for Your Next Home Swap
Switzerland Chalet Overlooks Swiss Alps and Mont-Blanc Available for Vacation Home Exchange
A Waterfront View of the Caribbean: Cades Bay, Nevis Holiday Home Available for Swap with The Vacation Exchange Network
Luxury Condo Overlooking an Azure Blue Sea Available for Home Exchange on the Island of Providenciales, Turks & Caicos
Gorgeous Palm Tree Landscaping at This Puerto Rico Vacation Home Available for Swap with The Vacation Exchange Network
Scottsdale Arizona Vacation Home in Gated Community Near Phoenix Available for Home Swapping with The Vacation Exchange Network
Three Bedroom, Doorman Building: New York City Apartment Available for Home Exchange with The Vacation Exchange Network
Mount Desert Island Maine Vacation Home on 16 Acres Available for Home Exchange with The Vacation Exchange Network
Kauai Hawaii Vacation House in Exclusive Princeville Resort Available for Home Exchange
How Can Home Exchange Help You Realize Your Vacation Dreams?
With home exchange (also called home swap, home trades, holiday house exchange, and many other names), take your vacation anywhere your dreams take you.
At its core, the idea of a home swap is really quite simple — swap a stay in your vacation home for a stay in someone else’s home.
The uniqueness of The Vacation Exchange Network is that you can vacation when you want and where you want without having to find a home exchange partner who wants to use your home.
With housing exchange, your home enables you to take unforgettable vacations on a budget. You can save thousands of dollars on your holiday by leveraging one of your biggest assets, your vacation home.
To find out more about how home swaps work, how to list your vacation home for swap, how to join our home swap Network, or how to arrange your home exchange, please visit us at The Vacation Exchange Network’s website.
