Why not plan a post-lockdown staycation?

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• Peter K says:

  9 Feb9 February 09:58

  Great. So you get to swap houses with people that you have no idea how COVID safe they are being. What could possibly go wrong?

  • Andrew says:

    9 Feb9 February 10:40

    And then can’t return to your home for 72 hours after they have left to ensure it’s Covid secure again. It’s beyond ridiculous to be considering this at the moment.

    • Rob says:

      9 Feb9 February 10:57

      Your choice Andrew – no holiday, hotel or a home swap. I would suspect a home swap is safer than a hotel stay.

      • Andrew says:

        9 Feb9 February 11:11

        Except no one is coughing over my home while I’m in the hotel.

        • Peter K says:

          9 Feb9 February 12:58

          Exactly.
          I went on a hotel break at the end of last year (before lockdown 2.0) and, though the room genuinely looked impressively cleaned, I still cleaned all the possible touch points with antiviral wipes as soon as I arrived.

          Then we had no cleaning done by staff members while there.
          It was certainly safer and more relaxing than having someone in my house for several days and having to clean both at the start (my house then their house) and the end (their house then my house) of the holiday!

          Did I mind cleaning the hotel room? Not really and I thoroughly enjoyed the break at the hotel.

  • Mr. AC says:

    9 Feb9 February 13:13

    There’s 10M people vaccinated in the UK and 5-15M who had COVID but recovered. It’s approaching 40% of the population. Risk calculus is entirely different for folks who either recovered or vaccinated (or, like myself, both!).

  • Love Home Swap says:

    15 Feb15 February 17:23

    Hi Peter, thank you for your question.

    As we are a community built on trust and reciprocal exchange, some members will clean before their guests arrive in their home to make the swap as comfortable as possible. Alternatively, some members might agree on paying a cleaning fee instead. Each and every swap is unique so our members would clarify any rules, Covid-related or otherwise, before a swap is confirmed.

    Thank you

• s says:

  9 Feb9 February 10:52

  Number of comments says it all. I think Rob is right to say that HfP readers are no fools 🙂

• Paul says:

  9 Feb9 February 11:11

  The question was why not plan a post lockdown staycation?

  A. I travel to escape England and the awful weather, the overpriced food. the lack of hospitality, the grubby streets, the overcrowded rundown seaside resorts, the overpriced attractions with associated traffic jams and the prices! My god the prices!!! There is little value for money!

  If I cant fly, then I will stay home. My back garden, a good book and decent wine trumps the trials of holidaying in England!!

  • Tony says:

    9 Feb9 February 15:26

    I have now started “holidaying” via YouTube – be selective some of the town walks are good, and memory’s re formed.

• Freddy says:

  9 Feb9 February 13:25

  Don’t want to be away on a holiday swap worrying of the potential mess I will come back to at home. What’s stopping someone rifling through my underwear drawer whilst frolicing in my bed….it’s a bit erw

• mvcvz says:

  9 Feb9 February 14:14

  The only thing I find less appealing than the thought of staying in a complete stranger’s home is the thought of a complete stranger staying in mine. Especially unsupervised by me. Covid is just a bonus.

• signol says:

  9 Feb9 February 14:54

  Surely a Staycation is staying at home? Otherwise it’s still a holiday, but a domestic holiday? 😉

• Colin MacKinnon says:

  9 Feb9 February 15:00

  Many people swap their holiday homes, which allows plenty of time for the 72 hours period to elapse if you so wish.

  Or they swap their main home while staying in their holiday home.

  You don’t have to have a simultaneous swap – and if you only have one home, you can have someone stay in it for 10 days while you are off on a two-week holiday?

  We did a home swap once, and would do it again. Haven’t signed up for Love Home Swap because our pied-a-terre is a building site (with no builders!) and so we don’t want to list it, or our main home, yet.

  But you need photos of your property to sign up!

• peter says:

  9 Feb9 February 18:05

  There’s CouchSurfing which is entirely free, a very different vibe though 😀 but the idea is roughly the same and.. you don’t really have to let people stay at your place instead 😀

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