Vacapedia Vacation Rentals Blog

Sure, with a dollar sinking ever lower against the Euro, those of us who travel often need to shave our costs considerably. One of the ways we do it is to rent a vacation house. It’s often cheaper than a hotel room, and even cheaper if you have a family or a few friends in tow. You can make your own coffee, and even meals if you wish. Most of the time you have a washing machine, which allows you to travel much lighter.

And you have neighbors; you aren’t cordoned off from the society you’re visiting.

But this doesn’t just work in Europe. At the moment I’m typing away at a vacation rental condo in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. There are four of us. The cost of the condo, with two baths, both with whirlpool tubs, is the same as the pair of dreary hotel rooms we stayed in last night.

Right now Martha is preparing the lunch we bought at the local deli. It’s a feast of foods we can eat on our patio, or take out to the lake shore. We didn’t need to cook at all (a huge majority of people who stay in rental properties don’t cook a single meal–but that doesn’t mean they don’t use the fridge for chilling wine and juice, or the stove for making tea or coffee). The meal saved us big bucks over eating out, and we did it without a hovering waiter named Maurice who wants to be our friend for tips.

So, think about all the fun you can have in a rental house or condo. It’s great to have one right on the lake. Tomorrow there’s a jazz brunch, and today there’s the pontoon boat tour of the lake and the fall colors which are just starting to fringe the blue waters.

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