Exchanged rest. What is and how is the exchange of housing at the time of vacation? Advantages and disadvantages of the procedure. What advantages gives

Traveling for the exchange of housing, i.e. Vacation with the exchange of houses or apartments is not new for Western countries.

This movement has been over 50 years old, but it began to gain global popularity only in the era of the Internet.

Today there are dozens of popular sites offering temporary housing in various planet points.

If you are ready to provide your apartment to tourists from Japan or Argentina, then in return get the keys to their home completely free.

If you still decide to exchange housing with foreigners at the time of vacation, then make a time of residence, additional conditions (for example, watering colors, cleaning in the apartment before departure) - and you can go to another country.

There are two main reasons why people around the world choose the exchange of apartments for travel.

1. The first is a significant savings.

   After Loucosostran made the cost of airfares affordable literally to all, the most significant cost of expenses was housing rental. "As it would be wonderful if you could travel around the world, while not spending money for accommodation in hotels or rental apartments," at some point they thought.

   REFERENCE: Indeed, if you delete this article of expenses, then vacation becomes not luxurious, but simply an alternative pastime. No longer need to save funds all year to go for three weeks to the sea. The journey is now easy to organize, without breaking the piggy bank.

2. The second reason for the popularity of the exchange of apartments for vacation time is the ability to plunge into the usual life of the country stay.

   You can easily prepare for travel: read guides, study the ratings of the best entertainment in the city and communicate in forms with other tourists, but then the adventure spirit disappears.

   For those who are not interested in walking tropic trails, the vacation with the exchange will be the perfect solution.

pros

Exchange of apartments for vacation time has both additional bonuses, which include:

Minuses

But there are some minuses travel with housing exchange. The main thing includes:

ATTENTION: In a thoughtful approach, vacation with apartments can be a way to travel around the world, without spending significant amounts.

Where to look for options for housing for vacation time in different countries?

Before proceeding to search for apartments at the time of vacation, it will be useful to learn about the main ways to exchange apartments between the cities during the holidays or in other countries.

The first is the conclusion of the rental contract. You and the owner of another home sign a housing agreement for rent for a certain amount. In the event of a conflict, contracts will become a basis for the proceedings in court.

The second option is to draw up an agreement on the exchange of houses. The agreements of this kind are not provided for by the legislation of our country, but they can serve as evidence of the very fact of exchange.

The search for an apartment is better to lead on proven sites dedicated to this type of tourism:

IMPORTANT: On the worldwide network you can find a lot of similar sites for the exchange of apartments during the holiday time. Registration on some of them paid, others require payment only for additional services. In any case, the amounts requested by sites will be significantly lower than booking rooms at the hotel.

Procedure for renting apartments for rent for travel

So, you decided to find alternative accommodation at the time of vacation. In order to implement this plan, you must perform several steps:

1. Sign up for one or several sites for the exchange of apartments.
2. Make photos of your home or apartment and the surrounding space.
3. Madely fill out a questionnaire, add a colorful description of the apartment and the city in which it is located.
4. You can expect feedbacks or view the available options and write the owners yourself.
5. When there is a suitable option with the owner of another apartment, you should discuss the deadlines, the conditions for the use of housing, sign lease agreements, and exchange keys.

Key exchange can be made by mail leaving the keys to the neighbors or at a personal meeting.

Features of housing exchange

Foreign and domestic tourism for the exchange of housing is significantly different.

In Western countries, this is a familiar phenomenon, travelers have already accustomed to trust their housing the same as they enthusiasts.

On sites, it is often possible to meet not only modest apartments, but also spacious private houses, whose owners could well afford a hotel room.

In Russia, this type of tourism is only beginning to develop. As a result, we have a rather modest choice of houses for exchange, and unusual options are rare. This situation does not promise large prospects to tourists who want to relax within the country.

On the other hand, the Russian home houses receive a large number of proposals from foreigners who dream of visiting still exotic countries for them. So if you decide to expose an offer on an international resource - get the opportunity to visit many countries.

REFERENCE: Contrary to popular belief, housing exchange tourism - not only for owners of chic apartments located in the center of Megapolis. Of course, the house must comply with certain standards, but much depends on your ability to present it.

Describe life in your city, add high-quality photos, listen to the advice of community participants. You may receive an offer from the owner of an apartment in Venice, who wants to feel the atmosphere of the Russian depth.

it's time to road

And I, and my husband always liked to travel - we also met on the trip, and continued to drive. When got married - continued to live in the same mode. With the eldest daughter, I was still listening to the advice of Russian pediatricians like "not to export anywhere to three years," and the next children were already lucky much more - they simply live in our pace, the same life we \u200b\u200bconsider the right and interesting, ride with us practically since birth.

Our whole unusual travel history began when a third daughter was born. We realized that we could no longer remove one room at the hotel - do not fit, such a composition and such restrictions were very expensive. I didn't want to travel less, this is the main joy for us, realized that we need to look for another way.

I thought after the film "Exchange Vacation". How everything is easy and simple there - two girls were alleged, the button was pressed, and now alone in England, the other in America. And I went to look for information - how so now we did not know this? It turns out that the exchange of houses exists from the 60s.Since we, let's say, are active, even adventurers, I really caught up with this idea. In some families, as it happens - the wife will come up with something, she will offer her husband, and he is: "Why did you go crazy ..." And my husband says: "Oh, cool, let's try."

find "their"

We so tanned this idea of \u200b\u200bsharing at home, which immediately registered on one of the sites. Eyes, of course, scatter, the feeling that the whole world is in your pocket - only the bags of pack. But the feeling is deceptive! It may seem that there is a hundred options, but so that you with people coincided, you must first have a huge search. You can send a hundred letters, but the coincidence is only with one family - so that everyone really arranged. I always advise you to be flexible in my requests.

For the first time, we started searching in the spring with thoughts about summer - well, you need to go to the sea? I started writing letters to Greece, Spain, France and quickly realized that most people plan their lives strongly in advance. "Yes, wonderful," answered me, "but let's probably try next year?" Everything is planned ... "

I also started receiving letters, one of them was from Iceland, from Reykjavik. With us, of course, there was no such plans, we kind of gathered at sea, warm. I looked at the photos - and felt that I was in my own childhood. That Chukotka, on which I lived, which my children never seen in life - and never, probably, will not see. It was all in the photos of Iceland - Soping, Tundra, Northern Lights. My husband says: "Listen, here's a strange option, of course ..."

As a result, in the first "exchange" trip we went to Iceland - and the family went to us, to London. We brought the order of the house before the trip, the husband receded everything that the repair was long ago - excellent, by the way, the reason to make everything pending.

Guests we leave the folder with the necessary information - where what lies where to go where to eat.And in the refrigerator, the minimum set is to eat, the bottle of wine is welcome.

We arrive in Reykjavik - and there is the same set! We did not negotiate about it, but in the "northern" refrigerator there were the same cheese yogurt-bottle of wine. Then I already realized that people, ready to go to such adventures - just like. Music and books in homes are similar, paintings, little things are different. Not specifically, it turns out simply.

With that, the first trip has passed for six years, and we can not stop, it's like a drug. End one journey, start planning another, in my head already keep the third. Now we go about every two months.

People are the same

My non-commercial project "House Exchange Vacation and other non-standard travel" began with a blog with the tips about the trip, interview with people who prefer unusual ways to ride the world - Kauratsurfing, Housing (care for houses). For people who want to spend little money on it, there is a huge number of opportunities. I dream - here the children will grow up and will be lit by their own lives, and we will also go to the world more often - we will live in Venezuela in the mountains, in Australia at Ville ...

For us, travel is the impressions, it is an opportunity to see how people live themselves. Different countries, different religions - and we are still all the same! So painfully feel that a lot of people occurring in the world disconnects, breeds. Politics, sanctions, fears related to this. It's all dangerous, wrong, so any idea that will unite, and will not give away people from each other, "I am for her! And I am sure that for children it is most important and valuable: when parents show them the world.

Our children already know - there are different traditions that need to be respected.Everything can be different, but the world as a whole is still kind, and everywhere you find the same as you, with the same values \u200b\u200band principles. Share is a wonderful principle, you give and you get in response. We want our children to be happy - and the world in which they live, were good, friendly.

ride and learn

Traveling with a child is huge opportunities for development. He can get much more than a month at school with traditional education and boring textbooks. Now quite different things are relevant! We are preparing for trips together: a little geography, a little history, a little religion, architecture, walks planning. Everything is unobtrusive - and knowledge, much more benefit.

So, thanks to the exchange, we decided to leave for half a year in Nice - took the children from school, immersed in a new language, a new culture - "good" stress is useful, a person mobilizes. The modern world is such a changeable, the difference in what was my childhood and what world is now, is huge.Our children will grow up - and they will need completely different skills, not those that the school gives. They need high adaptability, the ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions, developed emotional intelligence, creativity, knowledge of languages, empathy, understanding other people's cultures. They will be more courageous, more open, will understand that it is constantly to learn, merchant and reregly - that's what is very important.

WILL COMMUNICATE

My blog, a group in Facebook - all this slowly grows. I saw that in Russia few people know about such an opportunity - began to tell about it, promote the idea. Yes, this method is not suitable for everyone, but for sure there are those who come in handy. I wrote, where to start, how to progress, why not be afraid. Exchange houses are safer than renting an apartment, because when you are in someone else's house, you have too guests, you are in equal terms. In addition, while the exchange is preparing, you have already exchanged letters, talked to Skype, looked at each other.

The process is unprecedented, and for these few months you are no longer strangers to each other. But intuition is important to trust: if you feel that uncomfortable, do not hesitate to say: "Sorry, the circumstances have changed." There are reviews on sites, and the owner cannot remove negative, for example, is a reputation, honest feedback.

In my group of exchange houses now more than three thousand people from Russia and other countries.It is important for me that we have comfortable communication, trust, safe space. And I see that despite the fact that we do not have the protection that there is on paid exchange websites, people are happy to use the ability to change, negotiate. The project lives almost its own life - because the very idea of \u200b\u200bsharing is cool. And I hope to ever write a book about traveling

Housing exchange services (home swapping) and joint accommodation appeared during the crisis in 2008, when people lost their jobs, the income of companies fell, but the desire to live as it was left before, and the ability to pay a high price for "as before" - no. It is believed that the startups couchsourfing and airbnb come from there.
The exchange of housing has become a vivid example of a joint consumption economy, where one of the basic principles is access to the use, not possession: housing here is used as a tool and the ability to travel for free.

Of course, all the heard about the airbnb site, which offers profitable rental housing worldwide. But, this resource is far from the only one of its kind, we chose ten reliable sites where you can rent a housing going to travel to any point of the planet.

Accommodation in the family

CouchSurfing (coachsurfing)


Couchsurfing.com was launched in 2004 and for several years turned into a huge multi-million community of people. At the moment, 12 million people are registered in the system from more than 200,000 cities. Those who offer their housing on this site does it - free. Yes, you can actually write off with someone, for example, from Paris, and arriving in France will stop at your new friend's house for free. Kauratsurfing is an exchange of information to some extent to whom you have come interesting to your life in your country, and you are learning from the inside of his life. Yes, of course, sometimes you have to endure some inconvenience, for example, you can get at your disposal not a room, but only a sofa, but it is for free.

Lovehomeswap.com The site for finding free housing is more accurate to exchange housing. The resource has earned since 2011, and now offers 75,000 properties in more than 160 countries of the world. Finding the system in the system, the villa or apartment you do "swap" through the site, so at the time of travel you will exchange your own real estate, for example, at the villa in Tuscany. True, the membership on the site is paid from 144 pounds of sterling for an unlimited number of swaps during the year. But, there is a free demoment for 14 days.

This is perhaps one oldest sites - he began his work back in 1992, and then not from the site on the Internet, but a printed book in which the addresses of people ready to take part of the guests from all over the world were printed. To date, this is a full-fledged resource with more than 65,000 real estate objects and impressive million exchanges worldwide. Here at homeExchange.com people communicate with each other, looking for like-minded people and travel company and, of course, find each other in order to be in any country, like at home!

Vedycasa.com.

Airbnb.com.

Culture Go Go.

WWOOF - housing on a farm in exchange for help on housekeeping

Homestayin.com - How Asia conquers the West

Casaparticularcuba.org - live in Cuba

Based on sources

Relax abroad at a luxurious resort or in the center of one of the European capitals can be practically a task! We need only a passport, a ticket to destination and the ability to find a common language with people. New fashion swelling the world - Exchange leave. You go on a visit to an overseas friend, and he and his family in your apartment. So the most expensive - accommodation - becomes free.

Report by Anna Nelson.

Lift broke. Therefore, Paul Brouotlen, like all residents of an ordinary house on a colored boulevard, raised on foot to the 5th floor. A foreign key will open the door of someone else's apartment, but will enter how to go home. The 64-year-old economist on the pension left his native California to feel Russian by a couple of weeks.

Paul Brouotlen: "In this apartment, I have a chance to try on the life of her Russian owners, greeting in the morning with their neighbors. This is absolutely another representation from the country. Because if you are in the tourist tour - you will stay tourists. Most likely, You will not get acquainted with anyone, besides your guide or receptionist in the hotel, which will be interested only how much money you are willing to spend. "

Paul will not spend not a cent for accommodation in this apartment, in which he immediately detects one striking feature for him - a washing machine in the kitchen, instead of the familiar laundry room in a nearby house. A few days later, he will already celebrate other features.

Paul Brouotlen: "It seemed to me that the Russian shocks when a man washes the dishes. Just in the US is absolutely normal."

Fundamentally no restaurants. The first days of the floor bought products at random, using gestures and the only word: "SPACE!"

In the kitchen, he opened purchased jars with inscriptions on the unknown Russian language. Having tried the hell, mustard and adzhik, finally discovered a favorite jam in one of the cans. They usually breakfasts them in his Californian mansion on the ocean. What a house that built the floor looks like, can be seen on the site of one of the club exchange clubs. There is no data except for private accommodation in Antarctica.

Increased English teachers in Russia, but in Russia quite recently learned that it was quite simple to become a member of any of such clubs: pay a fee - a maximum of $ 100 per year, to find a partner in the exchange partner from anywhere in the world, to place a visa and Buy a plane ticket. Decently saving to accommodation.

Eduard Kuznetsov, a representative of the American club in Russia: "For example, you can buy souvenirs for this money, you can extend your rest if there is a house in Nice, and in Nice there are also suggestions - you can remove the yacht for this money."

Interest in Russia in such clubs is huge, it is also shown by the Islanders of Fiji. But the scheme "We are to you - you to us" compatriots are still perceived as an adventure.

More than 100 thousand people are involved in this game worldwide. But Russians who risked to exchange their square meters on foreign, until hundreds of. The case is probably in our psychology. In childhood, we read fairy tales with a formidable question: "Who was sitting on my chair and broke it." And when we become older, we are already interested: "Maybe you also have a key from the apartment where the money is lying?"

But the Muscovite Alla Cheboksarova still decided and went to Germany with two children, where the hostess of the house was already waiting for her - the Russian woman's once, and now the German subject. She will go to Moscow a year later.

The same as on the Internet - without deception, there will be a three-storey house, bathroom with clean towels, bedrooms, kitchen stove and a specific garbage bucket, with separate packages for different types of garbage. Non-specific guests will seem only a German cat.

One of the conditions of exchange was a golf course so that children could master the noble games - here it is. Having agreed on the exchange, Alla will formulate what hotels that would be fully by means, but now clearly do not like.

Alla Cheboksarova: "Well, this reservation is such a concentration camp, you can say, paid by your own hands. For you, everything is thought out and you are doing only what is already planned in advance."

You can, for example, go where eyes look and stumble on the cheapest in the city of jewelry store.

And the American floor, becoming for the time the owner of someone else's apartment, realized that he was the owner of his own time.

They will feel at home forgetting at the same time that were visiting. The apartment question, if they spoil them, then only in one: returning to their homeland, they will report that no longer a charter, no bus nor in the crowd of tourists - no foot.

The presenter: "Western researchers amounted to a list of the most ridiculous reasons why embassy employees refused to receive a visa. For example, one woman was banned from entering the UK due to the fact that she was going to live a few months from her groom in London as a housewife. In The embassy stated that if she did not want to work, he had nothing to do in England. And one man refused to issue a visa due to the fact that he was going to settle too far from his friends who were invited. Ah, it is supposedly , suspicious. About what you need to know that the Embassy staff cannot have to do something and do not let you go to the country, we will talk to the Deputy Head of the Visovary Service of the Tourist Company Mikhail Danilin. If this desire to travel hitchhiking, what visas need to be To do this, and whether you need to receive visas.

Guest: "In any case, if you are going to go to a country with a visa regime for Russians, visas, of course, you need to receive. Another thing, it is necessary to consider the issue in each specific case from the country, because you only go to Schengen countries, can To be, you are driven, both in Schengen and not Schengen. A certain package is going to be issued in the consulate, and there already the Consul decides how you give a visa or not. Tourist firms are not taken for the design of such visas. Because you need to know exactly For submission of documents, where a person will live. Requires, practically, in all embassies, consulates, books, hotels or voucher for accommodation, an invitation where exactly indicated, what date, what month the person comes and leaves. Well, if a person will go to Embassies and prove in the consulate that he will ride the way, and it goes so, some minimum chances, probably, he has this visa. "

Leading: "And if, here, people decided to exchange apartments, like, here, we were told in the previous material, then in such a situation what visas are needed?"

Guest: "In my opinion, it will be necessary to issue a visa on a private invitation from a private person. And at a hundred, by 99 percent, the immediate coming to the consulate of the person himself."

Leading: "And whether problems may arise if you receive a visa, and the passport period ends."

Guest: "They arise necessarily. Another thing, in every country, if you look around the world, the duration of the passport before departure from abroad, from this country, it is different. As a rule, it is from 6 months, it means the countries of the South East Asia, beloved by all Thailand, India. And up to 3 months of the country of the Schengen Agreement of Europe. "

Leading: "A, whether it is possible to get a new passport, keep an existing visa in the previous passport."

Guest: "As a rule, it is not allowed. If you make up a new passport, then you must submit all the documents again for a visa, already in a new passport. The only exception that I know, American visas in the old passport, at the entrance to the US territory, Specify today. That is, you can go on a new passport. And there is a reply to an annulled passport with an old visa and will miss you. "

Leading: "And if the period of staying in one country or some rules of stay in this country, it turns out a refusal in the future. Can there be due to a visa in another country because of the visa?"

Guest: "Again, you need to look, in which country there was a violation. I know that at the moment the computer base has a common Schengen Agreement developed quite seriously. And, if a person violates the rules of staying in one of the countries of the Schengen Agreement, then with the receipt of a visa to another Schengen's country, he may have problems. "

At the time of vacation, there were more than 50 years in America and Europe. The idea of \u200b\u200bsuch a budget leave itself belongs to students who have always wondered to travel, and the money question always stood sharply.

When there was no almighty Internet, the ads were simply printed in newspapers. Well, with the advent of the World Wide Web, it got a very serious scope. For Russia, this is a relatively new type of budget recreation.

What advantages gives?

Benefits, of course, serious.

1. This way of rest allows you to significantly save your finances.
2. This is a unique possibility of full immersion in the usual life and rhythm of another city (or country).
3. The time of stay is not limited to the term of tourist ticket, you can determine the desired period.
4. New contacts appear, new friendly relationships, and it is always pleasant and useful.
5. The feeling of homemade coziness away from their own home is expensive.

disadvantages

Of course, there are also their "minuses", but there are not so many of them:

• You need to plan your journey in advance to pick up the appropriate option.
• There is a risk to face a unfair tenant, because his accommodation will need to provide unfamiliar people.

Where to look for options?

Search for various exchange options are needed on special web resources. The most popular among them are the following:

Procedure of temporary barder with apartments or houses for the period of vacation

Step by step algorithm of action

The exchange procedure is completely simple, just need to miss anything.

1. You need to register on the selected website for the exchange of housing (and better on several).
2. Make high-quality photographs of your apartment (at home), you can add photos of the surrounding space.
3. In detail and color to describe your housing and it would be nice to add here another description of your city.

   Important! Be sure to tell about all interesting places and attractions located in your area. Pay attention to urban transport.

   All the advantages of your offer must be indicated.

4. Next, you can wait for responses to your offer or to view the available options. If you are interested in any offer - write the owner.
5. After the desired option was found, it is necessary to discuss with the owner of the apartment and the deadlines for the use of this housing, sign the contract and exchange the keys.

Conclusion of a contract with those who responded to the offer

There are two main types of contracts.which are usually concluded with temporary exchange of houses or apartments:

• lease contract;
• treaty on temporary exchange.

Nuances

Required documents

Documents that you will need when drawing up the contract is:

• passports (both sides);
• documents confirming the ownership of this apartment.

Features

Usually use one of the most common ways:

• exchange keys at a personal meeting;
• transmit through neighbors.

You can, of course, agree on any more suitable for you to exchange keys.

How to make sure your real estate in safe hands?

Naturally, no one would like to meet with an unscrupulous person and let him in his home. "How can you protect yourself and what can be done?" - The question is not idle. Here several important points that should be focused on:

1. It is necessary to offer the other party be sure to legally issue a temporary exchange.
2. You should not leave valuable things in the apartment, we must remain only necessary.
3. It is necessary to communicate through the TV channel from the apartment where you go.
4. Examine feedback on a person with whom you are going to exchange housing.

Of course, the omit for the exchange is an exciting, cognitive, but at the same time a cheap view of the rest. It is ideal for adventure lovers, because in this way you can realize your dream and go travel even to another country.

All positive moments are absolutely "outweigh" some minuses. Although in Russia this type of tourism is still under development, a lot of proposals come from foreigners who wish to get acquainted with our culture.

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