We love hotels. We especially love how comfortable they are and that someone cleans your room for you every day.
But when we added a child to our travel list we started to see the benefit of more than one room, a kitchen and a home base.
It also turns out that it can be quite a bit cheaper.
Then there's the added bonus of staying in a residential area. You get a flavour of local life instead of sequestered holiday life.
We have stayed in a second floor city apartment (with two sets of stairs before you reached the elevator, which was a good workout with a stroller), a fishing cottage, a basement level duplex on a cobblestone street, a historic home in a small town and an efficiency by a bowling alley (that one wasn't great, but it was cheap).
Sites we like:
Homeaway
Airbnb
Booking
Expedia
Flipkey
It's also wise to ask your international friends or peruse house-swapping forums. You might get lucky!
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