Foreign Perspectives

It’s nice to see that vacation rental accommodation is starting to attract higher profile vacation rental commercials these days. Sadly, many people miss out on this really excellent way of going on holiday through their habit of simply looking at hotels.

As the little video says, it’s quite often substantially cheaper to go on holiday in a vacation rental property (also known variously as villas, apartments, self-catering, cottages, and various other names) than it is to go to a hotel. To give you an idea of how substantial that difference can be, in our own holiday property we charged less than half the cost for an apartment when we rented it as a vacation rental compared to when we rented it as a hotel suite.

However, the cost is only part of the picture. Many of the properties listed on the likes of Vacation Rental.org are in idyllic spots that you’d never find a hotel and the accommodation is generally much, much larger than what you’d get in any kind of hotel regardless of the price you paid.

Anyway, here’s one of the first of what’ll hopefully be a series of high profile adverts for these properties:

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Related posts:

1. Realistically priced holidays for those with families
2. Getting the price of your vacation down
3. Tidying up at the end of a series of courses
4. Holiday thoughts
5. Is it still the case that you only get what you pay for?

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