It’s the latest trend for independent travellers, so we’ve rounded up the details for you
Ever see the Cameron Diaz/Jude Law romcom The Holiday? Well now you can have yourself a house-swapping adventure of your very own, with the help of a nifty little app that’s becoming increasingly popular with Cambridge homeowners.
Nightswapping, the latest indie travel craze, is the first website to facilitate swaps between members completely for free, offering its well-vetted users the opportunity to swap ‘nights’ for accommodation at members’ properties across the globe. Members need to pay £9.90 as a reservation fee whenever they travel, although it’s a set price no matter the number of nights or size of the party travelling. If you’re not in a position to offer space yourself, you can buy nights directly for £7 to £49, depending on the standard of accommodation. With 110,000 members in 160 countries listing 30,000 places, something definitely seems to be working. The idea is exciting, and you have several options: to do a mutual nightswap, to swap for a private room or even for an entire place. Only question is, where to first?
