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….
