Weather At Your Home Exchange Destination

An ExchangeHomes.com member has shared some very fundamental, but often not thought of advice for her fellow members. Before agreeing to a home exchange in an area you are not at all familiar with, first make absolutely sure that their climate at the time of year you are considering is something you are quite literally “comfortable” with!

Jennifer explained:

hot_climate.jpg“My husband, young family and I had always thought of sunny Florida as the ideal holiday destination. Living as we do in England, the films and pictures we see of Florida’s beautiful blue, sunny skies were an enormous temptation and this is the destination we listed in our home exchange offer.

We exchanged with a charming family from Winter Park, close to Orlando and DisneyWorld last July. We got all the sunshine we could have dreamed of, but what we didn’t anticipate was the accompanying dreadful, drenching humidity. We spent the entire two weeks in clinging, perspiration soaked clothes, trying to console two cranky, complaining young children.

Florida natives told us that the savvy time to holiday in Florida in between November and March. Definitely NOT between June and September. We just didn’t know ….”

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