The Cheapest Places To Stay On Your Family Vacation

The Cheapest Places to Stay on Your Family Vacation

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Family Travel Enthusist

When deciding where to stay on your family vacation, chain hotels and motels are almost never the most economical or convenient lodging choice for a big family. By using a little digging and research, nearly every destination offers better alternatives.

Rent a house: There’s no need to cram into a single room as you can rent a complete house. In tourist towns it’s often easy to find fully-furnished rentals. You have multiple bedrooms under one roof, plus a kitchen for cooking breakfast or light meals. It’s so much cheaper than several standard hotel rooms and eating in resort restaurants. Search Google for vacation rentals, or vacation rentals by owner for the destination you might be considering. Craig’s List also has ads for vacation rentals by area. Home Exchange: When thinking of where to stay on your family vacation, if youve never considered a Home Exchange Vacation, the thought is usually a little daunting. After all you are letting a family you are unsure of live in your home while you stay in theirs. However, when you consider the advantages, you just may very well be tempted to try it at least once. Understand that your potential exchange partner will probably have the same concerns as you do. Having someone at your residence at the same time you are in theirs gives each of you an excellent incentive to treat the property entrusted to you personally with respect and care. Many of the benefits of a home exchange family vacation include: 1. Obviously the price of remaining in someones home tend to be less than staying in hotel accommodations and they are also a whole lot more casual and relaxing. 2. An exchange is arranged between families with children of similar ages. Therefore you will find it unnecessary to travel with a great deal of baggage, (especially if you children are infants and toddlers) 3. Oftentimes you are also able to exchange cars which will save on rental-car fees (consult the insurance companies first) 4. If your children are older, once the exchange is finalized, you may find them emailing and IMing each other. By the time family vacation rolls around, they will often have already made friends with all the other neighborhood kids on Facebook or other social media sites. 5. Home exchanges are interesting because you can slip right into the area lifestyle and see glimpses of how people live, the top local places to eat, get invited to local events that you would never get to see or do as a tourist. 6. If there are pets involved, arrangements may be made for pet care and this can eliminate expensive kennel costs. You can obtain more info about home exchanges at: Home Exchange.com Rent a Time Share: You don’t need to own a timeshare to enjoy some great benefits of time share ownership. Many timeshare owners rent out their weeks for a fraction of what it would cost you to remain in a hotel. Look into Craig’s List for available timeshares in the area you intend to see. For other time shares that may be available for you to stay on family vacations check out Redweek.com One Final Caveat: Take into account that when traveling with a big family things will almost certainly go wrong and the unexpected usually happens. An open mind, a flexible outlook, and a great sense of humor might help keep youand your familyhappy and sane. To reduce frustration for everyone, plan a vacation that’s light on itinerary and planned excursions and full of relaxation and laid-back discovery. Never underestimate the time you spend with your children. Perhaps you may feel exhausted and frustrated some days while traveling and wonder what on the face of God’s green earth possessed you to set about this journey. However, in years into the future, you will be surprised at just how much your children remember of those trips as well as remembrances they have stored about them.

As a mother of six children and having 9 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild, Gloria Daniels has done my her share of traveling with children. Now that she is retired, she is combining her love of sharing and teaching with her love of travel to help other families find the joy of traveling with their children and sharing experiences with them.

Visit her website at Best Family Travel Tips

for more in depth info on family traveling with children.

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The Cheapest Places to Stay on Your Family Vacation