Family Vacation Homes – Simple Tips For Choosing The Ideal Accommodation

Renting a vacation home is ideal for family vacations. With ample space, amenities and conveniences that you cannot find in hotels it can make your holiday truly memorable. Unfortunately, choosing the wrong accommodation can make it a complete disaster. In fact, most people’s worse holiday experiences come from bad accommodation and sometime opting for the cheapest solutions will backfire and make your holiday a real nightmare.

One of the advantages of staying in a hotel is that if anything is not to your liking you can just walk down and talk to the manager. In a holiday home you have to deal with whatever is thrown your way. Its crucial that you do your home work and make sure that you know exactly what you are in for.

Here are a few great tips to help you find a really good vacation home that will suit both your budget and your creature comforts…

– Photographs

Most of us will pick a holiday home based on the photographs we see – either online or in a brochure. The problem with this is that many photos are deceiving – especially online. Interior shots are either shots of when the place was new and views are often “general views” instead of specific views. Its really important that you ask for recent photographs and that you phone up the owner or agent and ask about it. It can be a nasty surprise once you get there.

– Location

Location is really important. Vacation homes are usually priced on size and location and you need to make sure that you are still close to everything you want to be close to. You don”t want to be a 20 mile drive away from the beach if you are going on a beach vacation. Use Google Earth to check out the place and check out the surroundings.

– Price

Price is an important aspect and unfortunately most people base their decisions purely on price. Make sure you look at value and not just price. Consider everything that can affect the budget of your holiday in terms of the accommodation as it will be one of the biggest expenses.

– Facilities And Amenities

When booking a vacation home online its important that you look at everything that is included but also everything that is not included. Most listings are keen on telling you what they do offer while they never say what they don’t offer. Amenities like washing facilities and basics like a TV and internet are things that you need to check if you are uncertain.