Vacation Rental HomeVacation rentals are available in most areas you currently plan on visiting. Typically pictures of the exterior, interior and floor plans or a written layout of the bedroom arrangements are available online. You can find all types of vacation rentals homes, from high tech vacation rental homes for families who want a TV in every room with a Blue ray DVD player, to a house with its own swimming pool or a cottage on the ocean without a TV. Vacation homes are typically equivalent in price to your nicer hotels, but provide the added benefit of a fully equipped kitchen, for those with picky eaters or those who want to save money on the high cost restaurant food at some locations. Some of the typical concerns you might have staying in a hotel are gone with a vacation rental home. A vacation rental provides a great privacy bonus with no worries about your boys running in the halls or jumping on the floor and disturbing anyone next door or below you. If you are looking at vacationing in a sunny location, Florida for example, you can even rent a house with its own swimming pool. Our personal experience with an Oregon Coast vacation home was amazing. The vacation home was $250.00/night and had one bathroom and two bedrooms upstairs with King size beds and each had their own private deck and view of the ocean. A master suite downstairs with a king size bed, private bathroom, walk in closet and view of the ocean. Also downstairs were a complete kitchen, dining room area and living room all with views of the ocean. This home was comfortably furnished and included a basket of movies and board games in case of rain, surf fishing equipment in the garage and enough kitchen equipment to cook a full turkey dinner if you wanted to. Here is a video showing you the inside of the Oregon Coast vacation home we rented this summer: Most vacation rentals involve a nightly/weekly rate and then a onetime cleaning deposit. Typically you will need to ask the amount of the cleaning deposit and they can range from $100.00 flat rate to $25.00 per person staying in the house. Make sure you choose a rental company that does not require a $300.00 deposit to be held until some undesignated time after the rental to return the money to you; this is a sign of a small inexperienced company. If you have a family you truly get along with you could even consider sharing a vacation home. By truly get along I mean you have similar food likes and dislikes, you eat dinner at about the same time and you get up and go to bed around the same times. Remember, it would be very difficult to share a rental home if your family loves to stay up late and get up late and your friends want to go to bed at 7pm and get up at 6am. This is not a match. Do not make a similar mistake we made in sharing a hotel room with a family we thought we got along well with. We had traveled with them before but always stayed in separate rooms or facilities. Sadly we did not check the bedtime schedule and found ourselves stuck in our room trying to sleep at 9pm when we would have normally stayed up watching movies until 11 or 12pm. The current prices of vacation rental homes are such that sharing is not required however in fact if you have a family you get along with well you could each rent a vacation home in the same area. Typically there are 2-5 homes in the same development, some even side by side. After experiencing a vacation rental home versus a hotel we would most definitely investigate the vacation rental option anywhere our next family vacation takes us and I would suggest you do the same. Here’s a site you can trust to find a vacation rental home: Vacation Rental Homes
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