Very often, lovers of independent recreation prefer to book not hotels, but apartments (flats) and villas in the region chosen for recreation. This allows you not to depend on the hotel schedule and makes it possible to cook at home, as most apartments have their own kitchen.
Necessary
Foreign passport, bank card
Instructions
Step 1
The first international site for finding private apartments for rent around the world is Airbnb. The site is easy to search: you can enter not only the country and city of the intended stay, but also the approximate area where you would like to live (almost all objects are marked on Google-maps). The site is Russified, on the page of each object there is a schedule of the availability of apartments for the required dates. The reliability of the uploaded photos, as well as the documents for real estate (only owners or managers of real estate companies can register on Airbnb) are checked by the site's support service. The site has a feedback system, from which you can find out objective information on objects.
Step 2
Reservations and payments are made through the site system, which excludes cases of fraud from both property owners and customers. Airbnb is considered the most up-to-date website for apartments and other rental properties in Europe and North America.
Step 3
Another such aggregator is Villas.com, a product of the largest hotel aggregator Booking.com. The system is similar to that presented on "Booking", you can vary the cost, choose the location of the apartments, the area, the availability of an equipped kitchen and other characteristics. Unlike Airbnb, Villas.com has fewer apartments and flats, with more options being villas and guest houses. But, nevertheless, you can find interesting, non-duplicating options.
Step 4
Reservations and payments are made instantly, payment is made by credit card through the site system. If you have any problems, you can call the site's support service, which will contact the owner or manager, and then, based on the results of the conversation, with the vacationers. In 90% of cases, Booking.com and Villas.com defend the interests of customers.
Step 5
In addition to these global aggregator sites, there are also intermediary sites around the world. A certain amount is designed for Russian-speaking clients. Before booking on such sites, it is worth looking at reviews on the Internet, as fraud is very common.
Step 6
If you are not visiting a country for the first time, you can check into a hotel for a couple of days, and then go around independently existing condominiums or apartment complexes in the city (resort). This is especially true for Southeast Asia (Thailand, Bali, Vietnam), where a large number of condos are being built specifically for renting. The cost of such apartments can start from 800 rubles per day.
