| Each time that someone travels, two things always | | | | holidays part of the year. |
| cost the most. Accommodation and airfare. Because | | | | Usually ad will be from a person who wishes to |
| of that, most of us are not allowed to travel nearly | | | | spend holidays for example in a New York, and is |
| as much as we would like to. However, some people | | | | from Chicago. Therefore, if you are from New York |
| with very modest income seem to be traveling all the | | | | and want to spend holidays in Chicago, you will save |
| time. So what is their secret? | | | | $100s if you arrange a deal with that person. |
| The secret is in learning how to travel cheap, and | | | | Good place to start is to go to craigslist.org and |
| there are many ways to make your trips much | | | | check the ads for the cities you are interested in. If |
| cheaper and thus more frequent. One of those | | | | and when you decide on a trip, just place an ad in a |
| secret ways is apartment swapping. | | | | part devoted to the city you are interested in visiting |
| The usual way for Apartment swapping is to use | | | | (do it a couple week before the actual trip as this will |
| classified ad web sites such as craigslist.org. These | | | | give you time to find someone willing to swap |
| works in this way: person offers his or hers | | | | apartments). What you will be saying is does anyone |
| apartment for a few days in exchange for an | | | | from this city want to swap apartments for x days, |
| apartment in the city they wish to travel to. If you | | | | starting from xy till xy? |
| find someone interested in visiting your town you | | | | Naturally, apartment swapping does have its price, |
| arrange to swap the apartments for some time (a | | | | and the first thing that comes to mind is can I trust |
| week or two usually). | | | | this person? You will be giving away your apartment |
| The main benefit of apartment swapping is that it will | | | | to a perfect stranger, so even if you are not worried |
| reduce your trip expenditure almost only to airline | | | | about possible theft, make the effort and find out |
| ticket. It is especially convenient for expensive cities | | | | anything you can about your potential apartment |
| like London, New York or Madrid, by swapping | | | | swap buddy. |
| apartments you can save hundreds if not thousands | | | | Try to find people that want to visit your city for |
| of dollars. | | | | site seeing and not for wild parties that might end up |
| Another good thing about it is the usual time it takes | | | | with you being sued or with your personal |
| place and that is in most cases precisely during the | | | | possessions broken. Also keep your part of the deal, |
| high tourist season, when hotels are the most | | | | you will be after all, living in his/hers apartment with |
| expensive. | | | | their things so try to be careful. |
| If you check out sites like this, you will discover that | | | | Finally, if you are young, trust people, like to travel |
| a lot of them have parts exclusively devoted to | | | | and are wiling to accept a certain risk amount |
| swapping apartments. You can also notice that the | | | | apartment swapping could be just the thing that |
| bulk of apartment swapping goes on during the | | | | could make it possible for you to see the world. |