Normally holidays and savings don’t get on well.

In the home exchange case things are different. Many people don’t exchange their house because of money but for fun, adventure, amusement, excitement, to know new people…

Whatever may be the reason, the saving we get on the total cost of our holiday is important and worth taking into account, especially for those family that normally can’t afford a good vacation because of its cost.

House swapping gives us a lot of advantages.

Even though we could get quite a few accommodation options (hotels, hostels, B&B, camping…), they all have a cost.

The accommodation cost in a house swapping instead is ZERO.

Saving money...

Let’s do a trial.

I’ll look for a hotel -let’s say in Paris- for two people. How much will it cost?

Number of people: 2

Nights: 5 (from 1st of December)

Area: let’s try with… Champs Elisée? I choose just one of the many options. A French hotels search engine (http://www.hotels-paris.fr) tells me that it will show me the best offers.

I get more than 40 sorted by offer price. The cheapest is 395€ with a 47% discount, otherwise it would have cost so much as 745€! The second available offer climbs to 435€ and both the offers were for two stars hotels, breakfast NOT included. Immediately they push up the bidding to 800€ or more for 3 stars hotels (not even 4).

Do your accounts. Doing a home exchange would make us SAVE A LOT OF MONEY. As a minimum, in this case, we could save 395€…But apart from this aspect we have to consider the “food-aspect”. Rather than going out every day to have lunch or dinner we could stay at home and making our own meal. Maybe we won’t have everything ready and waiting, but the saving offered by the house swapping is huge and evident. And also welcome, given the crisis we’re passing through.

It is estimated that the value of the average saving for a numerous family could be of 1000€, comparing house swapping to the other available options.

Consider that the only cost you have is the journey. Once there, you would spend as if you were at home.

Not bad. Shall we plan a home exchange then?