Moving to a new city
Moving to a new destination is both daunting and exciting. On arrival, you’re in unfamiliar surroundings, and it takes time to get used to the place. Stay in a homestay and straight away you’ll have met some local people, in their home, who will quickly help you to feel more comfortable, secure and generally at ease in your new destination.
Share a meal
We suggest to all our hosts to include a complimentary light breakfast in the per room price (some homestays can provide other meals too by prior arrangement). The best thing about this is that you’ll share a meal with your hosts and learn more about the destination and local culture first-hand from them. And if you time is right, you could even share a Christmas dinner together, like Laura did with her Irish host family!
Meet local people
When you stay in a homestay you experience something that you won’t in other forms of accommodation, not only do you meet the local people…you get to live with them too. It’s a way to live a destination, not just visit it.
Improve your language skills
If you’re on the road and you’re trying to pick up the language along the way, you need to be speaking it everywhere you go. What better way to do this than staying in a local’s house when you travel? Or if you’re a student attending a language school in another country, stay in a homestay, and you’ll get to speak the language every day with your host family.
A real ‘home away from home’
The phrase ‘home away from home’ is one that is used all too loosely by different accommodations around the world. While they may offer a homely atmosphere, they’re not really homes. Homestays, on the other hand, are just that. Stay in a homestay, and you really will be staying in a home away from home.
Memories you’ll never forget
Most people have stayed in plenty of hostel or hotel rooms and I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t remember one room or receptionist from another on your trips. Not so a homestay. Your hosts a real, genuine people and by getting to know them and their world, you’ll make memories you couldn’t get from any other kind of accommodation.
