We never pay for holiday accommodation but have travelled the world with little-known hack and anyone can do it
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A SAVVY couple have saved thousands of pounds on holidays using a little-known travel hack that anyone can do. Becky Pyat, 35, and her partner Sam Pearce, 36, have travelled around the world without paying anything at all for accommodation, meaning they only pay for flights and extra spending.
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The couple have been to the USA, Iceland and Belize in Central America with their two-year-old son Archer by swapping homes with other families through a platform called Home Exchange. Becky said the couple typically pay around £400 for a two week holiday now, not including spending money - a fraction of the price they used to pay.
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"We're going to see the Northern Lights in February and then Albania in Easter, then in the summer we're going to Norway,” she said. HomeExchange is a platform where travellers can arrange to swap homes with other households to save on the cost of accommodation.
Hundreds of thousands of people are home swapping every year, figures suggest. You must sign up to the platform and become a member, which costs around £175 a year. In return, you can go on an unlimited number of house exchanges and the site provides support and assistance for guests and hosts in a similar way to platforms such as Airbnb or Booking.com.
One of the big benefits, Becky says, is that you benefit from having all the comforts and appliances of a house rather than just a hotel room or small apartment. "You feel more at home because it's an actual house, there's often things to actually play with rather than being cranked up in one room,” she said.
