Everyone talks about home exchange being a great way to experience another culture and save money. But I bet you didn't realize hotels can kill you.
When the keynote conference speaker arrives by flying saucer, hotels can be dangerous places. I was nervous staying in a hotel that was hosting a convention for space alien conspiracy theorists, but that's nothing compared to the cooties you can pick up when jammed into transient housing with hundreds of other travelers.
Again, home exchange wins. Unless your swap partners recently returned from a vacation at a leper colony, you are thousands of times less likely to be infected with something exotic if staying at a home exchange instead of a hotel. Remember the Legionaires' Disease outbreak centered at a hotel? That particular legion was not comprised of home exchangers.
Swine flu isn't the only nasty bug you can pick up when you opt for paid lodging instead of a swap home. During our recent road trip I stripped back the sheets at each hotel to look for tell-tale signs of bedbug infestation. Yes, bedbugs are back. You are roughly a million times more likely to pick them up when sleeping on the same bed used by a thousand other travelers from who knows where, versus a swap home inhabited by just one family.
This is the perfect way to convince your wavering family member to give home exchange a try: swap homes and return from vacation alive.
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