Before the prep for my New Orleans trip started, I would’ve only thought about booking a hotel room while on a trip. Renting a home for a vacation only seemed real in movies such as The Holiday, until now. In fact, the practice of renting a house for a few days seems to becoming more and more popular. For a large group like we have with the bowling team, it seems much cheaper and easier as well to book a house that can sleep up to 10 compared to renting a hotel room for 3-5 people.
The house the bowling team and I rented is here, seemingly in the heart of New Orleans. The house has seven beds, a full kitchen, washer and dryer, internet access, and two TVs: most of those things are hard to get even in a hotel room! Even though I haven’t ever rented a house for a vacation, I can’t help but think already of how the house outways the options for hotels.
1. Your own space: you’re not hearing the screams of little kids next door, or running down the hall
2. You don’t have to wait for the hotels to serve you a full breakfast: with your own kitchen, why not go grocery shopping and fix your own breakfast?
3. The hotel spaces always seem congested especially when you have up to four people trying to use one small bathroom. This house has 2.5, and even though there’s about nine of us, it already seems like a castle!
Another blog site lists a few more reasons of why one should rent a vacation home instead of a hotel:
4. The “rent with a view” is something that didn’t pop in my head right away, but is so true! I haven’t looked at many pictures of our house, but the listing provides location details, and it seems we’re staying right on a main street close to Bourbon street. Can’t complain with the center of New Orleans being at your doorstep, can we?
5. $$$$: I’ve mentioned the cost a little bit before, but the listed website mentions it in more detail: when you book a house for a vacation, most of the time all “hidden fees” that you’d find in a hotel are listed right on the website. Cleaning fee, security deposit, etc: all of that you can calculate into your budget without the worry of having to add more at the end.
Hey, the other blog list suggest Hawaii as a cheap option for home rentals as well: luau anyone?
July 28th, 2017 at 8:36 am
An outstanding share! I have just forwarded this onto a
coworker who had been doing a little homework on this.
And he in fact bought me breakfast simply because I discovered it for him…
lol. So let me reword this…. Thanks for the meal!!
But yeah, thanx for spending time to discuss this topic here on your web site.
August 26th, 2017 at 10:49 pm
Tһis is a topic that is near to my heart… Cheers! Exactly
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September 6th, 2017 at 9:38 pm
This was my class project for a semester so I never thought of putting my contact info up… however feel free to reach me at steedsm13@uww.edu.
Thanks for reading and the feedback!