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When you jet off on your summer holiday, the most thought you are likely to give to your home is to worry whether you locked the back door or not. But, your house is almost certainly the most valuable thing you own, so rather than letting it sit idle while you're away, make it work for you and save thousands of pounds on your holiday in the process by trying out a home-swap.
Instead of forking out hundreds or even thousands of pounds for a hotel or villa, the idea is that you swap homes with someone in your holiday destination. While you bask in the Florida sun for nothing, another family gets to explore the delights of your hometown in return.
The financial attractions are clear. Whether you stay a week or a month, you only have to pay for your flights. If you want to rent a villa of the same standard as your own home, you will have to pay a fortune. Swapping saves you all that expense.
But the advantages aren't just financial. If you swap with another family with children everything is there, they have toys to play with and the house is child-proof. And the benefits are not just for the kids - swappers will often include all sorts of things in the exchange that may prove invaluable for adults too. You can swap cars to save on hire-car costs, for example, and even leave your cars at the airport for one another to save on taxis. The host family can also help ease you into their local area, so you can avoid getting sucked into tourist traps. Lois Sealey, who owns exchange service Home Base Holidays, recommends swappers create an information pack, telling people the best places to visit in the local area, where to eat and drink and where to avoid.
There are also precautions you can take to keep your home safe. The main one is getting to know your swapper reasonably well before you travel. Initial contact tends to be by email through home-swap sites such as homebase-hols.com, exchangeaway.com and intervac.com. Then, once you have found a potential swapper, you should make sure you contact them regularly. You should also draw up an agreement in writing, including addresses and dates, what is included in the swap, who will cover costs such as phone calls or gas bills, and what to do if something gets broken.And even once you are fully confident of the other person, it's still quite common to lock away family heirlooms, breakables or confidential documents in the loft or garage, or to leave them with a friend or relative.
However, while it's important to take precautions, home swappers stress that problems are rare, and that exchanging homes can be an uplifting experience, as well as a good way to get a cheap holiday.
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| initial | [i'niʃəl] |
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| exchange | [iks'tʃeindʒ] |
想一想再看 n. 交換，兌換，交易所 |
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| valuable | ['væljuəbl] |
想一想再看 adj. 貴重的，有價值的 |
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| avoid | [ə'vɔid] |
想一想再看 vt. 避免，逃避 |
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| base | [beis] |
想一想再看 n. 基底，基礎，底部，基線，基數，(棒球)壘，[化]堿 |
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| potential | [pə'tenʃəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 可能的，潛在的 |
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| invaluable | [in'væljuəbl] |
想一想再看 adj. 無價的 |
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| idle | ['aidl] |
想一想再看 adj. 無目的的，無聊的; 懶惰的，閑散的; 無根據的 |
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| confidential | [.kɑ:nfi'denʃəl] |
想一想再看 adj. 秘密的，值得信賴的，機密的 |
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| stress | [stres] |
想一想再看 n. 緊張，壓力 |
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