# Home-exchange for vacations

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-exchange-for-vacations/75938>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 12, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-exchange-for-vacations/75938 "2001-08-12T21:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Miss\_Gretchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Miss\_Gretchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Gretchen)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-exchange-for-vacations/75938/1 "2001-08-12T21:11:49Z")

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I’ve heard of “Home Exchange” type deals where you stay in someone’s house in another city or country, and in turn they stay in yours. It’s touted as a way to save on accomodation costs, have convienient facilities (like kitchen & laundry) available and to have chance to stay in a new place without being stranded in a tourist district of hotels and such.

So, has anyone here participated in such a thing? How did it work out? What about screening people, etc?

Oh, and by the way, I have a hotel-room-sized apartment in downtown Calgary if anyone would like to swap that for a luxurious Italian villa or something.🙂