Staying In An Apartment During Vacation – Why Not?
While making arrangements for your vacation or business trip, everybody thinks about reserving a hotel or hostel room. There is another often overlooked but way much more convenient option for travellers, however. I am talking about vacation rentals. Read on, and you will see why taking a vacation rental can be a great idea, for a change.
Vacation rentals —usually apartments for tourists in short stays abroad, though you can find houses also— have advantages over hotel rooms travellers usually overlook. Take, for a start, the benefit of privacy. In a hotel room, you will not only have to deal with a receptionist and the cleaning staff. There is also a bartender and a manager, a bellboy and the administrative staff.
In my opinion, that is too many people near your passport, return air tickets, your medicines and, all in all, your luggage. It doesn’t matter whether the place has a safe or not. Stories of travellers losing their stuff are not uncommon.
I can’t stress enough how more safer a rented apartment is before all these “uncomfortable possibilities”. There aren’t any nine-to-five staff watching (almost lurking, sometimes) to see if you go to the swimming pool or leave the premises. At an apartment, it is just the landlord, you, and possibly the guard at the entrance. It’s not just a lot safer, but you can do as you please, even if this means asking a friend over for a couple of drinks or to talk about business.
Renting an apartment also gives you an advantage when thinking about meals too. If you stay in a hotel, you cannot cook; which means you will have to look for a restaurant every single day of your stay. Do you picture yourself doing this if, for example, you are a vegan or you need a special low-fat diet? That would be an extra work by itself! In an apartment, on the other hand, you are the king (or queen). You have your own kitchen or microwave oven, which makes preparing your own meals as easy as going and buying the ingredients to the local (super)market.
For this reasons, I strongly suggest you to consider an apartment next time you go away on vacation. Check these two sites of Barranquilla apartments or Cartagena vacation rentals, for example, and you will see by yourself the prices are pretty reasonable. The piece of mind, privacy and freedom are included in the package.
