Free, Quirky or Dependable? Travel Smarter
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2023
- Hotels, Airbnb and Housesitting are all great long-term Slow Travel options. But using a mix of these will enable you to keep your budget under control and actually enjoy the whole experience better. We compare and contrast in this video and share 9 Tips to supercharge your stays.
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My rule when choosing an Airbnb is to never stay at one that has less than 25 reviews - that are mostly good, of course. Your tips for house sitting are spot on - Anne
We live in Airbnb's full time! Most of the time it's for 3 or 6 months at a time, and we've been successful at asking for a lower price. The host must be a Superhost with good reviews before we will book it. The downside is that the prices have been escalating quite a bit since we started slow travelling three years ago. Cheers from Vancouver :)
Yes, it appears to be a steady shift upwards in the costs doesn't it. Hope you are both well.
I'm glad you both are in the UK again. Take your time, travel, show us around. Good health to both of you. Not sure why, but I feel relieved that you are in your home country. Also, hi to Sarah's mom 🌻.
Ahhh that is very sweet Katt. We have a lot to share about our future travels but that will be in a few weeks time. 👍
Housesitting is interesting but also scary. What if someone's pet gets sick or dies while you're there? What if the house gets robbed or there's a fire? I don't want the responsibility of caring for someone else's home. When I travel, I want to relax and enjoy my trip, not worry about what might happen especially because I travel alone.
Well said. A very restrictive way to travel unless you’re tight for money and use this option to build up financial reserves before using other options
Absolutely. In our next video we will share some of our experiences and there are certainly stresses that we could do without.
I think that "Sundowner" was take 12...based on the smooth pronunciation and flawless bottle opening!
We are planning our FIRE journey and long term travel (Brit expats lived in florida for 20 years) but the question I have is how to go about maintaining medications. I take the usual for many people blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes meds but how to go about procuring these long term in multiple countries. I can’t be the only one that needs this but can’t find any answers anywhere! Keep up the great intent!
Good question Helen.
Great video! Sarah has gotten so much more comfortable on camera.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Brenda! She is doing great.
I’ve used a house/pet sitting site for the last few yrs. It’s worked very well for the most part - only 1 house sitter that I would not invite back (I was in a pinch and took a chance on a younger person with no previous housesits which was a lesson and a mistake). We also did our first house sit for someone else and it was really enjoyable. As a home owner, very important to look at reviews and read between the lines to some degree. As a house/pet sitter, the same thing! Both pet sitter and home owner should get something valuable from the agreement.
Agreed Lorrie. Often in reviews it what isn't said that you need to look for. Good tip.
Great Overview. Regarding AirBnB, have you ever encountered or suspected hidden cameras were about? Apparently it’s quite common in AirBnBs in the United States.
Haha yes!!! We have wondered about this!!! I always take a fairly detailed look around but you never know. We haven't been given reason to suspect anyone in particular that for me (Neil) it is always in the back of my mind.
We have done over 300 days straight airbnbs but I know that if the poop hits the fan there is an IBIS that I get to for a clean safe place. We have been on the road now for almost 2 years straight. We love airbnbs and have made great relationships with the host but hotels will always be an emergency fall back. Maybe our paths will cross in Spain
We sure hope so Jeff. You are in step with our thinking regarding hotels. Ibis are a brilliant emergency option aren't they.
Awww… Neil and those kittens💕💕
Exactly Joanne... That is what we see in HouseSitting.
Thanks for another fun and thought-provoking video. We started our indefinite travels just a few weeks ago and hope to have many years ahead of us on the road. You’re now heading into your third year, so here’s my question for your upcoming Q&A video: how do you FEEL about the lifestyle you’ve chosen two years on from flying out to Cancun? Are you as enthusiastic now as you were then? Do you feel any of the initial spark and shine has faded? We look at you and think, “That might be us, two years from now.” So any insights you have are very welcome…
Toffeeboilingdwarf, great question.
Keepingitreal, interesting read, I would say that anyone that chooses anything in life are going to be biased... even if its your football team. They get tanked in a game and can's can say "We were robbed!" So we get that probably exponents of FIRE are going to be biased towards their opinion on their life choices. That is only natural.
If we have time in the Q&A video we'll try to answer this one because this is... well... keeping it real.
Thank you both for your input and views. Very cool.
I used Football as an analogy. I could be speaking of politics, religion or any idea that someone is emotionally invested in.
I assume from this comment that you feel we are pretending with regard to our life or indeed defying logic. The one thing I know I am unable to do is to change your opinion on that, it really isn't my objective to do that.
Just today the Victorian government has announced a 7.5% tax on short term rentals - saying that it is to release housing into the long term rental market. 1 to 2 per cent of the Victorian market is short term rentals. Other jurisdictions are limiting the nights you can have an Airbnb to say 180 nights. This will reduce the availability of accommodations and increase costs across the board. The real issue is the land availability. These measures won't help long term renters and will make the travelling lifestyle a lot more expensive.
Hi Steve. Interesting and we wouldn't say that the Victorian government that are making these changes. There are a lot of government interventions globally that are impacting Airbnb. Thing is, we have to sit on the fence with this one because the more we travel, the more we think of our responsibility to the local area and if we look at the UK as an example. There is such a housing shortfall at the moment that the price of property is out of reach for younger people.
It is a real quandry which ever way you look at it. I guess the market economy will turn up a solution in time (every action has an equal and opposite reaction).
Interesting comment, thanks for leaving it.
I would live on a cruise ship if I didn't have a cat or need to work! Good to see you guys doing well 😊
Hey Stacie... Can you imagine! Wow.
You guys are amazing! Love your content, so much so that my wife and I sold our home in the USA and are coping you…remember what they say, imitation is the highest of flattery. Keep it up guys!!
WOW WOW WOW! Hope it is going great for you!!!
@@2GoRoam it’s going fairly well but as you know and teach long term travel has its speed bumps as well. We are loving Maderia and enjoyed Scotland but couldn’t slow down. I’m now having issues loading esims ugh..I’m old. Luv your channel! You guys stay good!!
Neil- I’m not the most tech savvy guy and that is holding me back in the RUclips community. Lol but I’m figuring it out little by little. Not likely to be at your level of professionalism anytime soon. Aka I can’t even get my sims to behave
eSims! Yes! We agree... We have struggled with them ourselves. You basically need to get them working before you get to the country you want to use them we find, which feels a little counter intuative!
@@2GoRoam yep I just bought more data and can’t activate the stupid thing. We use same company you and others recommend I just feel it’s my lack of TI IQ…perhaps. Anyway, luv you guys, keep the chin up, you have been thru so much and we enjoy the realness you bring. Not sure I could be that open with upsetting the better half, but you guys are sweet and it’s good to see! Joy is harder than happiness but it last! Look for joy, all the happy stuff comes and goes!
We spent 50 weeks travelling around the world and only had 5 hotel rooms. The rest were house sitting. We had open around the world tickets so we could adjust to our sits. Love being a nomad. ps: no keys to carry :) 😂
Wow, that must be a real positive regarding Cost of Living. Think our next video will resonante with you as we discuss some of our experiences.
@@2GoRoam we bought our business class rtw tickets in Venezuela when the bolivar was at 44b to 1 usd. That equaled $2400 Canadian each. Max drank that much in the lounges and I ate that much so the flights were free :) We are off to BA next where we can enjoy life at 50% off.
Brilliant!
Christine and I love your videos. We have been traveling for 13 months, 6 months on a sailboat. You are always right on with your comments and suggestions. My wife and I spent 6 months in southeast Asia and we could rent an airbnb for $1, 500 a month with questionable cleanliness or we could stay in a great hotel included a good buffet breakfast for $15 a night.... It is definitely in Southeast Asia do the hotel! Keep up the videos, message if you want to try sailing, currently in Turkey but heading to Greece.
6 months on a sailboat?! Wow! That sounds an amazing experience.
Yes, it is easy to fall into doing the same everywhere but best to check the market before renting an apartment or booking a hotel 👍
Really curious about house sitting. Looking forward to hear more about it. Glad Neil is feeling better!
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing
And Joe, thanks for commenting.
For Q&A: 1) my concern about doing house sitting is where is the line between responsibility and liability? If the cat gets sick and needs urgent care or a storm brings a tree down on the roof. Is that something spelled in the agreement?
2) I assume there is another negative about house sitting. You are probably not getting a beach house in Spain in the winter….likely you are taking care of that person’s home in England in the winter while they enjoy the sun. How true is that?
Great! We'll answer these questions in the next video rather than the Q&A, great questions.
Hi guys, great video 😀👍. Some Questions for the Q&A. 1) Travel plans for the rest of 2023 and also for 2024? 2) Has the cost of living crisis affected your budgeting for future travel, ie what’s your full year budget for 2024 vs 2022 & 2023? 3) What if there’s a lost decade in stock market growth like between 2001 and 2013, will this affect your plans? 4) can I request a future video showing your yearly cost breakdown for 2023, overall and by category, and compared to previous years?
Thanks guys great job 👏 Ian
Great questions Ian. They will be in our Q&A.
For the Q&A video - will you do another video showing your yearly spend I enjoyed the ones you used to do. Which hotel chains offer the best points program, respectfully asking 😊 hopefully not rude - why are you back in the uk has the world travel become too expensive, too exhausting (these are things I worry about before we start our travels in a couple of years), any tips you can give for ensuring access to money at all time, use of bank Authenticator if you have different phone number as you travel, travel/ health insurance. Thank you
We’d also be very interested to see another video on your yearly spend. We enjoyed your early videos in which you totted up your expenses location by location. But I seem to recall you saying that they weren’t attracting many views. That’s a shame, but I suppose you have to consider what your followers like. Apart from waking up in completely new surroundings, the biggest change to our lifestyle since we started travelling is the need to really think about every purchase we make. Careful budgeting is a daily reality. One to reconsider for an occasional video, perhaps?
Great questions, we will include these in the Q&A video.
Looking forward to house sitters.
Have you ever thought of or done volinteer work overseas.
Not yet but we will do as we slow down more on our travels.
Top tips as always. Our question for the Q and A is do you have any travel items that you wouldn’t leave without?
Good question St Chris!
Another great video - many thanks. For the Q&A session, what are your top tips for hiring cars and driving abroad? I'm about to retire and we plan on travelling, especially some US road trips. It's been 30 years since I drove abroad (it was Florida!)
Good question Rob!
Q and A question:
How does your family feel about you traveling the world most of the year? Not being able to see them all the time must be hard on you both and families at home
Good question. We'll cover this in the Q&A
For the Q&A, Out of all the countries you have visited so far, could you see yourselves living in any of them and which of your visited countries has the best food in your opinion? Always look forward to watching your videos 😊
Thank you Danielle!
We have just completed 6 house sits; one in France, three in England and two in Ireland. Some were great (a very affectionate Persian cat in Bristol in a beautiful home), others not so much (incontinent ageing dogs, dogs that expect to sleep in your bed, a new cat that can't leave the small house it shares with two large dogs, young undisciplined dogs, a rooster with hens, dogs with poor training and so on). So the message is try and pick somewhere with no young or very old animals. We are staying in a great spot (Airbnb) in Montenegro next year for $A57 a night for three weeks - so you think to yourself is house sitting really worth it? Also most sits are in the UK and in rained there throughout the summer we were there (and in Ireland where I had to buy gum boots to walk the dogs!).
I would love to know the details on the Airbnb in Montenegro we are heading there on our travels once we start.
@@caroljordan4316 Prčanj, Opština Kotor 85330, Montenegro
Thanks Steve, we will discuss this in the next video.
Happy Saturday Neil and Sarah! Nice to see you and enjoyed this video. Question: I'm curious which hotel booking site you recommend? I am a strictly Airbnb sort but am open to booking hotels considering the fees Airbnb is levying lately. It's often 1/2 to 1/3 the accommodation costs and for me, that is just too steep. So booking affordable, clean and safe hotels is something i'm definitely open to doing. Hope you're feeling better too Neil. Cheers!
Good question Kate! Hope you had a good weekend.
Stick a hot iron in my eye before I do AirB&B. When I go on vacation I want first class. Not cleaning anyone’s toilet
House sitting is so hit or miss, it's not really viable for long term OR saving costs unless you have months booked ahead, but it only takes one homeowner to cancel a trip and your homeless.
Agreed. This is a challenge and we actually cancelled a sit we had planned at very short notice due to personal circumstances. That wasn't great at all. We will cover this in the next video. Thanks for leaving this comment.
For your Q&A Video: What are the biggest downsides of the perpetual travel lifestyle for you, aside from the obvious one of missing family and friends back home?
Thank you!
We’re definitely just hotel users, but we’re not in the slow travel phase. Questions. As always, technology, what tech (not necessarily that which you use for RUclips purposes) has made your slow travel or any travel, easier/better/more fun? Are you experiencing any travel fatigue and are you planning to take another 3-12 month break from your travels, the same way you were planning to spend an extended stay in Thailand?
Thank you! Good question.
Is there a house swapping site rather than a house sitting one?
Also no mention of serviced apartment sector or short term rentals, the latter especially in Asia with very few commitments
Hey Bornfree. Absolutely regarding the serviced apartment and short term rentals. We wanted to compare some of the most popular but we did a direct long term rental while in Thailand last year.
We haven't come across a House Swapping site but they must be out there I am sure.
Now homeless in UK.😂
Haha that is why we only make the videos outside. We slept on the bench that we make that last one from :-)
Cheers Jacqueline!
Please don't do the clickbait titles. It's really offputting.
I don’t understand this comment. Genuinely not trying to be a jerk about it, but just curious about the intention behind it. Here’s what I’m struggling with. The title is “Free, Quirky or Dependable? Travel Smarter” This does not come across as clickbait to me, in fact, very much the opposite. I think the thumbnail had something about a budget buster and maybe that’s what you are referencing 🤷♂️. Second, if you are going to spend a ton of time and energy into creating content on RUclips, shouldn’t the goal be to get as many views as possible. If the title was dishonest or misrepresents the content, I’d be on board, but I’m not seeing it. If people are creating free content for me to enjoy, I’m certainly not going to begrudge them taking some liberties to build their brand and increase their viewership. Just my two cents, but feel free to correct me if I’m missing something?
I’m just glad they’re not doing the fake shocked expressions, bug eyes or pointing at things. 😀 Even real MDs do that idiotic stuff on thumbnails to get a click! Love these folks’ dry humor (humour lol) and wit!