A SEMI-RETIRED couple has saved thousands of pounds on holidays with a little-known travel hack - and anyone can do it.Since signing up to home-swapping site HomeExchange in 2017, the couple have stayed in 33 homes overseas and around the UK for free.
So, if you find a home you want to stay in but they don't want to swap with you in return, you can pay them in guest points.The platform costs $220 a year to sign up to, and in return, you can go on an unlimited number of house exchanges and get 500 guest points to spend in your first year. "We receive lots of requests for July and August, but those are the two months when we don't travel because of school holiday flights being costly.
A nine-night holiday abroad typically costs £317 per person for accommodation, according to research by data firm NimbleFins.If you saved that on 33 different trips, you would save £20,922 in total.per year, but now we are actually free to travel more often and home exchange allows us to take more trips without having to worry about accommodation costs," Jane said.