A Home For a Honeymoon
Looking for a way to circumvent unreasonable honeymoon expenses? Perhaps it’s time you considered putting your house on the market.
Not for sale, of course; but rather, for exchange. No nascent practice, people have been swapping their houses for nearly six decades. According to ExchangeHomes.com, home exchange has “been around since the 1950′s, when teachers in Europe began swapping homes as a means of affordable travel during the long summer school vacations.” This ever-burgeoning practice would eventually come revolutionize low-budget international travel, as home exchanging networks gained momentum in recent years.
For honeymooners, this is cause for considerable celebration, especially for those, er, imprudent couples who exhausted their funds on the wedding itself. Therefore, instead of abandoning that incredible European itinerary or unprecedented Australian getaway, honeymooners can list their home on the internet, and commence their home exchange pursuit. Honeymooners can search a myriad of home listings with appropriate dates, destinations, and amenities, and contact those prospective candidates whom they feel are satisfactory.
Typically, there is a small annual fee for the home exchange service, and most prospective exchanges require membership. But information is confidential, and the actual services incredibly safe; in fact, many home exchange programs have yet to see a single perilous encounter. This is probably attributed to home exchange’s common objective-to travel abroad, travel safely, and most importantly, travel cheaply. In addition, home exchange functions much like a dating service; honeymooners can build relationships with potential partners, achieving sufficient levels of comfort prior to swapping homes.
Though a honeymoon in another person’s home may sound unusual, in actuality, more than 50,000 people participate in home exchanges each year. It may turn out to be an incredible experience-especially if it’s in a coveted destination you couldn’t otherwise afford.
Enid Glasgow is a travel writer who writes about [http://www.exotichoneymoonvacations.com/]honeymoon vacations with Big Five [http://www.bigfive.com/]luxury tours.
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