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Whenever one travels, the two most expensive elements are airfare and accommodation. It is for thisreason that many people are not able to travel nearly as oftenas they would like. Some people, however, who have no moreincome than the average person, seem to constantly be takingtrips. How do they do it? The secret is learning the art ofdiscount travel - there exist many different techniques to makeyour trip much more affordable. A good one is the concept ofapartment swapping.
Apartment swapping usually works through classified ad siteslike craigslist.org , and work as follows: someoneoffers their apartment for a short amount of time - usually aweek or two - to someone in the city they desire to travel to.If it works out, someone in the desired destination city isinterested in coming to the city where the ad originates from,and the two people arrange to exchange apartments for a smalltime.
The beauty of the apartment swap in terms of discount travel isthat it reduces your vacation costs almost exclusively to airfare . Especially when the swap involvesexpensive cities like New York, the swap can end up saving youthe bulk of the costs associated with your trip. The other greatthing about apartment swapping is that it often occurs atprecisely the time in the year where accommodations are the mostexpensive.
If you look on a site like craigslist.org - which has aspecific section devoted to apartment swapping - you'll see thatthe majority of apartment swaps occur for short periods over theholiday season. A typical ad will be someone that wants to spendNew Year's in a different city, for example. And if it happensthat you want to spend New Year's in the source city, you cansave yourself a fortune and employ one of the best discounttraveling techniques.
If you're interested in an apartment swap, go to craigslist.org and look through the adslocated in your home city. Conversely, if you're looking to swapapartments, place your ad in the section devoted to thedestination city. In other words, ads are of the "does anyone inhere want my apartment in x for these dates?"
Of course, nothing comes without a price, and if you'reconsidering apartment swapping for discount travel there are afew points you should keep in mind. The most obvious one istrust: you are letting a stranger stay in your apartment, withall your things. Even if you're not concerned about theft, tryand get to know as much as you can about the potential swapper -you want to avoid someone who's going to have raucous partiesthat annoy your neighbors, or break your things. At the sametime, the swapper is also placing a lot of trust in you - you'restaying in his apartment with his things, after all - and sooften this trust can be sort of balanced out.
If you're willing to trust people, and accept a reasonableamount of risk, apartment swapping can make a visit to anothercity extremely cheap, and is one of the best discount traveltechniques out there.
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