After collecting here and there some ideas from swappers’ comments I am going to give you 9 adjectives (and their reasons) to describe a home exchange…

Home exchange is:

1. Fascinating: especially when you find out new cultures, a different life style, new habits…
2. Exciting: when you find out new cultures, a different life style, new habits and especially different types of…toilet papers
3. Interesting: when you get to know new books, new CDs and artists thanks to your swappers’ library.
4. Innovative: if you’ve never been on a home exchange then it will surely be innovative. It is a different way of planning and living your journey and your entire holidays.
5. Special: home sweet home…Much more special than an anonymous hotel room.
6. Different: see point number 4 and 5, they will make 6.
7. Convenient: it’s much cheaper than other ways of travelling since you don’t have to pay for your accommodation.
8. Exhilerating: you know what you leave but you don’t know exactly what you get…it could be a marvellous villa on the beach or a little flat in the centre of a big town, or a simple house in the mountains…
9. Daring: despite the fact that you can’t plan every details you get a special thrill in doing a home exchange

Isn’t it enough to home swap?

The non house swapping expert person may ask how the profiles of the people who home swap are… Well, simply and quickly we could say that they are normal, ordinarily special people. They can be housewives, professors, teachers, merchants, secretaries, psychologists, doctors, lorry drivers…

The home exchange is meant for giving a chance to everybody to know, in an affordable way, the world, its cultures, its people, its wonderful places. So everyone can join the game.

To give an example we’ll paste here the description of a user who sent us some questions before joining. As you can see, she’s a normal person, with a job, a family, a life…And the passion for travellin

We hope to see you soon joining our web site: www.homeforhome.com.

Someone could ask why it is best opting for a home exchange instead of vacation rentals.

Well, the advantages are evident and quite important: The cost: vacation rental properties are very expensive (hundreds of pounds per week) while house swapping is for free. Furthermore people often exchange cars too, which is a further conspicuous saving of money.

• • A real house will surely be better equipped (as for high chairs, car seats, play-stations, furniture, books and cds) than a rented one that has to be cleaned and emptied very often.
  • An inhabited house normally offers the advantage of helping us to get closer to the culture and the habits of the “native” people. It will also be more likely that we get to know neighbours, relatives or friends of our swapper family. It’s like having a taste of a second life (as we already said in a previous post)
  • The home insurances assure that occupied houses are less exposed to the risk of being robbed. Therefore it is definitely better having our swappers inside the house since they will surely take care of it as if it was their own house (and we will be doing the same with theirs).