Travelling can be a blast, but often, it’s also exhausting. Spending nine hours walking around in a new place where every sight is emotionally engaging takes a lot out of you, no matter how sensible your footwear is. Wherever you spend the night can help extend your enjoyment of your trip and keep your energy levels up or add to your tiredness. It can also add to the ease or difficulty of getting to the places you want to see. With that in mind, the following will explore a few tips you can use to find the perfect accommodation for your next vacation.
Find Your Search Tools
The majority of the tips below involve factors you can use to narrow down your choices. Before you can do that, you need to find a tool that can present you with all your options, to begin with. There are sites and search engines that will help you find the best hotels & hostels around the world as well as the apartments and rooms available for short-term rent by owners. You want something that allows you to search by location so you can see all the accommodations available in a given city. Additional search metrics like the number of rooms, dates, and cost can also be helpful but aren’t strictly necessary.
Know How Much Space You Need
Foremost, if you’re travelling with a group, you need to be honest about how much space you need. Many accommodations have a cost for extra people added to a room, and this isn’t necessarily a big deal unless you try to sneak extra people in and get stuck with some sort of fee. Avoid all the trouble and hassle and only look for spaces that cater to the size of your group.
While you’re at it, be really honest about the emotional needs of your travelling companions and yourself. It might seem like no big deal to spend every minute with six other people for two weeks, but most people need a bit of time and space to themselves to remain sane, patient, and friendly. If members of your group need their own rooms to maintain a pleasant demeanour, look only at places that can accommodate this. If you’re travelling with children, understand that they, too, need their own space sometimes.
Facilities
Depending on the type of travelling you’re doing, you might want to limit your accommodation search by the facilities offered. If, for instance, someone in your party has strict dietary needs that most restaurants can’t meet, you probably want to have a kitchen. If you just like cooking from home, you might want a kitchen. Will you need laundry services? Does anyone need wifi in the accommodation to do a little work in the morning before you all head out on an adventure? Is someone in your group the type of person who can’t not go to the gym even on vacation? Make a list of the facilities you need in order to meet everyone’s needs, and only look for accommodations that provide what is needed.
Check Out Times
Most accommodations have a time of day that you need to be out of the rooms by. This allows the staff to clean everything and put out new linens before the next guests arrive. Most of the time, this isn’t going to be an issue that affects your travelling, but you should compare these times with your itinerary to make sure that you’re not stuck with all your luggage for six hours before you need to catch your net bus or flight. If there is a discrepancy between the checkout time and your next transportation or room booking, you can always make a quick call to the accommodation staff. Sometimes they have rooms where you can safely leave your luggage as you enjoy the city.
Cost
Vacations can quickly end up costing far more than you thought they would. This is because you can quickly develop a ‘when in Rome’ attitude. You know you might never be in this place again, so why not enjoy it to the fullest, even if it’s more expensive? Beyond this, everything in tourist areas tends to be marked up price-wise, meaning you’re probably going to spend way more on things like bottled water than you initially hoped. Since you’re booking your accommodations ahead of time, you have the opportunity to be very conscious of your budget; this can also help you financially plan for your trip. Figure out what you can comfortably spend and try to find something that costs 20% to 30% less than that. This way, you’ll have a little extra spending money for when you find that perfect souvenir or discover there are boat tours that you want to enjoy.
The above criteria can help you go through the different accommodation options available and remove the ones that don’t suit you and your travelling companions. It’s also worth noting that some countries have stricter customs that may influence what your accommodations are. For instance, in some countries, guest houses and hotels can refuse to let an unmarried couple stay in the same room. Make sure you’re aware of these sorts of cultural details before you make your final choice.
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